fishing herring runs

[Joe]

The later it gets, there are more herring that are going out than in. Right now, and for the rest of the month and into early June, we are in the "post-spawn" window. A lot more herring are going rather than coming.
Soooo....you find the river or salt pond opening that leads to the natal ponds, and you fish the outgoing tides. Herring tend to like a lot of water for moving up and down the rivers, I always found that I did better when the rivers were swollen from rain or in the beginning-mid stages of a dropping tide as opposed to the last part of a falling tide.