Richmond Hill Tide Charts & Fishing

Season: Year-round, best in fall

Baits: Cut mullet, Live shrimp, Gold spoons

Sight-fish tailing reds on shallow flats on a flooding tide. Fall schools push bait against oyster bars and grass edges.

Season: Year-round, best in cooler months

Baits: Live shrimp under a popping cork, Soft plastics, Topwaters

Drift grass flats in 2–6 feet with a popping cork ahead of the drift. Gator trout hunt alone in skinny water at dawn.

Season: Spring through fall; the most reliable surf fish on the Gulf and South Atlantic

Baits: Fresh dead shrimp, Sand fleas, Cut squid

Small hooks, small baits, close in. Whiting feed in the first trough and the wash, often within a long cast of dry sand, on a rising tide. A two-hook bottom rig with a pyramid or bank sinker, left still, is all it takes. Good eating and no size pressure, so a great starter target.

Season: Spring and fall; the fall run to the passes is the event

Baits: Live mud minnows, Finger mullet, Gulp! shrimp on a jig head

Drag a bait slowly along the bottom at channel edges, jetty rocks and the down-current side of structure on an outgoing tide. In the fall, flounder stack in passes and inlets on their way to the Gulf or ocean; fish the drop-offs then.

Season: Spring and fall runs along the beach; summer offshore

Baits: Cut menhaden, Metal spoons and jigs, Topwater plugs

When blues are blitzing bait in the surf you will see birds working and bait spraying; throw a metal or a popper into it. Wire or heavy mono leader, because they bite through everything else and through each other. Bleed and ice them immediately if you plan to eat them.