does anyone need to know whats at the canal

[East Tide]

Mr Macey, I wouldn't give up so easy and I definately wouldn't stop fishing b/c I didn't have any live herring. Try some 7" Rebel swimmers with a gold belly and black back or some of the olive over white 7" gags grabbers. If you look at herring they are kinda goldish so try yellow gibbs bottle plugs or darters if you like wood. Retrieve these really slow. Toss it out there a little up tide and let it grab the water and feel the plug pulsate. Alot of times you don't even need to retrieve it but give it a "little" jerk every now and then to make it flash like a herring does. If you show up next to guys fishing herring there drift will be much longer than yours so you need to respect their space, but it holds true for the heathens if you were there first. I'd look for the real estate about 100-150 yrds down tide from the run just out of the way of the herring chuckers, it's tougher to trick fish to eat plastic when they have twice as much of the real thing in their faces.