Beach Fishing Gutters What Are They?

[andrewau]

hey guys this might seem like a simple question..

but how can you tell what the gutter is?

i have tried beach fishing once thinking the gutter was the rip but i dont think its it..

any help will be appreciated

cheers

[Hodgey]

This might help mate:

Gutters are best distinguished by darker deep looking water, where the waves break on the ocean side of the gutter and usually don't break again until they are across the gutter and closer to shore.

Gutters vary in size, shape and the distance that they are offshore. These gutters are where the fish will move into to feed and seek shelter. The best times to fish these areas is around dawn and dusk and or a run in tide, once again berley will improve your results.

Cheers

Hodgey

[andrew399]

If you watch the waves, the gutters are the deeper water. You will see a wave break (indicating shallow water) and then reform for a brief period (the gutter) and the break again (shallow water again). It is like a trench running across the beach. You want your baits to be in that deeper water in between the breaking waves

[yartz]

you can also find gutters by looking for water where white wash sits around the outside...generally, the deeper water where the waves ARENT are those where the waves havent broken, so the white wash isnt around so much...if that makes sense

but like the others said, look for the patches of darker water where the waves arent breaking, and where there is a bit of extra chop and that will generally be a gutter...

when there is a decent bank, a decent gutter may also appear between the bank and the shore...the wave will break, then hit deeper water and reform before breaking again on the shore...cast into that sort of area and you will generally (hopefully) find fish feeding, especially at dawn and dusk as hodgey pointed out

good luck!

ps having a look at a beach at low tide may also provide some hints as to where the gutters will be at high tide...

long live beach fishing

cheers