We left Eldred’s Marina around sunrise on Friday the 13th to fish the falling tide. The tide charts predicted an outgoing tide of 1.5 feet from 6:43 am to 3:31 pm. Knowing that the tide was high and would be falling all day, we started fishing deep in the backcountry with plans to work our way out with the tide, just as the fish push off of the flats. We found a good number of reds and trout that were holding in sand holes that abutted shore lines. We fished several types of artificials with most of our success on copper colored weedless spoons and dark jigs worked slowly along the bottom. Moving out with the tide we concentrated on sand holes that were further from the trees and deeper. We found some reds that had moved into them with the tide, then we decided to continue moving out toward the bars. We picked up a nice 28 inch snook on a spoon in a sand hole adjacent to an oyster bar with water flowing over it. We then pushed out even further to fish where the edges of the grass meet the sand bars. We caught trout as expected along these edges and also picked up an upper slot redfish on a copper colored spoon. Overall it was a good day and a classic example of how working a tide in a proven pattern can pay off.