That’s true. I was fishing a long SRC beach that, on an incoming, kind of culminates with the best water on the downstream side. There’s an oyster and cobble bar that juts way out past the shoreline and gets you into different and better water at the terminal end, and that’s where you catch the most fish until the tide submerges it.Being accused of low holing or being low holed by someone isn’t confined to just rivers or streams.
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I was fishing this terminal end and just killing it. Great fishing. A guy and his buddy wandered up and spread out at maybe 30’ intervals behind me. I struck up a conversation, and as I was catching more than them, offered to rotate to the top of the drift to let them fish through.
The guy next to me, who indicated that he fished this water a lot, must have interpreted that as “here, I want you to fish the best spot for the whole rest of your session while your buddy and I get skunked.” He was hooking fish after fish and whooping and hollering, and pretty much kept that up until the tide had him belly button deep at the end of the bar and he had to quit.
I had already caught plenty of fish, so I wasn’t too bent out of shape. I felt bad for his buddy, though, who left fishless after an hour or more.
I guess the lesson here is, if you’re on a beach and someone cedes the best water to you after having good success, maybe try and have the wherewithal to do the same for the next angler in line. Especially your sad old buddy who’s 30’ upstream of you getting skunked while you catch a bunch of fish. What a ding dong.