How a fish moves along a beach

[Tagger]

I fish a beach with an inlet to my left that fills up 2 huge bays and probably 3 river systems . So there's some water moving there. On the flood the current goes left on the ebb the current goes right . Just so happens on August 4 1998 at 5m I tagged a 38" fish there. # A002351 ..17 tracking days later the fish was retired 5 miles away 3:30 pm 08-21-98. So 5 miles away in 17 days in the middle of August . I don't know what bait the fish would be following . Probably its nose . Less than 1% of tagged fish are ever recovered so I stopped doing it . Why put all those fish through that for less than 1% to gather information that will probably be used to fish them comercially and lead to thier demise . I quit .. still a bunch out there somewhere..