Hey Bob. I like to fish about 90 minutes before and after the tide change. The formation of the beach is such that the optimum fishing area is about the first 150 feet from the bulkhead and then the slope flattens out. Also, the beach is gravel covered closer in and then where it flattens, the beach turns to hard packed sand. I like the moving current for fishing as well and try to pick days when the tide differential is not so great. We've had some big tide changes in the past few days so the tide receads really quickly and cuts down on the fishing times because it moves out so fast. For instance, today's high is about 7:15 at 9.3 feet and the low is 6.1 at about 2:30 this afternoon. Damn, if I had been down there this morning at 6:00 or so, I would have caught the final hour + and then the slack and then the outgoing for a couple of hours. That would have given me about three to four hours of fishing which is about what I like. I should have looked at the tides.