Lets do some spot burning.......

[FittyPoundah]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

...Talk about some of the attributes of your favorite locations...timing, tide, wind,structure, with no more specifics than that.What makes your favorite locations your favorite locations?...

Just being out with my dad, preferably an all day fishing expedition: sand eels in the AM (enough to stock a few zip-locks), coffee on the tailgate as we wait for the tide, hit a bunch of spots to the North and East for the rest of the day, eating in the truck as we travel, and watching the sun set to the left as the backside surf comes in a little too close for comfort.

But my favorite times to fish during that period is from dead low while it's coming in, a couple bait rods awaiting big, spikes emerged in the incoming tide, while we cast the plugs knee deep in the foam, occasionally checking back to see if the lines are tight on the bait rods or to ensure the rod hasn't fallen over due to the weakening sand of the under toe. Hopefully we are in a little hole that will clearly be seen at high tide. Hopefully, the few other anglers have taken off to eat dinner. Hopefully, we are catching fish. But it doesn't matter, just being out there is good enough for me. Then we stay until it starts to drop again. Is it April yet?

[Finaddict]

Three spots worth burning ...

... the first is a boat spot, one of my favorites ... island, west side on an incomming with light north wind, no wind or light south wind is my favorite, or a light east wind ... too much wind makes this side of this spot tough to drift ... surprisingly, the current always flows west no matter what tide, it's somewhat of a whirpool and I always nail fish here, especially on metal lips ... it's heaven ... the east side of the island is good on an outgoing, completely different story and game plan, no metal lips here, rather pencils big and noisy awesome ...

... the second fish is a rock pile that has a couple of good holes off of it, also during the season sand bars develop just outside of the rock zone creating channels for the fish to hang and always has a great current and I've done very well here over the past several years ... beautiful ... fishy and fun ...

... this little bend in a river/estuary that has a good drop off but the fish like to hang along the edge of the drop off and are very receptive to soft plastic jigs fished along the bottom ... as well as a similar spot where the fish hold along the edge and are suckers for a well placed pencil ... the first in this little blurb is from shore and the second is from boat ... two different areas, but similar features especially the productivity.