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    Re: Why do holes Fish Better Archived Message

    Posted by Hardy on 18/4/2012, 11:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Why do holes Fish Better"

    Well Welly Wellington. Low tide is the time to locate them. Mind you I am talking about sandy beaches, surf beaches. Holes come in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, some can run for several hundred metres. Basically if the tide is out and there is a swimming pool or two,well a paddling pool, that is a hole.
    Waves breaking either side, and that hole may only be a foot or two deep. But on an incoming tide, its a food catcher.

    If it is a popular beach you will often see little kids playing in them. Its not only fish that love holes. Kids feel safe in them. (And so do parents for their kids. So watch the kids and you find the holes.

    High tide, just as easy to find the hole, watch the waves. Look for a breaking wave, say, from 50 metres to 100 metres of shore, suddenly the wave kinda disappears. That means it has hit a hole. As the water is deeper in the hole or gut, the energy of the wave moves from kinectic engery to displaced energy. To put it more simpley, it just becomes an unbreaking swell, as it moves through the hole. Then when it hits shallower water, after the hole, it once again becomes a wave. Dumping or creaming once it has passed over the hole or gut.

    And that is what brings the tucker in. Another indicator of a full tide hole is, Terns or gannets doing their dive bomb stuff. Little fish, sprats etc, seem to love holes and guts too. Out of the current, out of harms way, well until a big bitey fish comes along. And thats the one you are going to catch, the big bitey fish. Often down here I see the Hectors Dolphins cruising the holes and guts, another indicator. Big fish eat little fish.

    Like I said the the guts are the highways, the holes are the food basket. A gut is like a road, for a two hundred or so metre stretch of the beach, the waves are breaking off shore, then they even out and disappear, only to break closer into shore. A gut is a minor depression that runs longitudal to the beach, thats up and down the beach. A hole is a major depression that is localised within the gut area, or just an isolated ocuurence along another boring, undulating beach. Find the holes you find the fish.

    Often a hole will be channel heading off shore. A good idea on low tide is to fish to one side of the hole, wade out and cast into the mouth of the hole. Fish linger around holes even at low tide.

    If I get down the beach tomorrow I will show you some examples of holes. There are some classic ones on my beach at the momewnt.

    Cheers Trev aka Hardy.


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