If the water height of the respective stands is less than a foot, there will be a long period, usually 8 to 10 hours, of practically no water movement. Currents are extremely important to fishing the flats and along grass stands in bays, the surf and jetties, in passes and cuts, and around offshore banks and petroleum platforms. The most productive action on the flats and along grass stands is usually right after a high tide stand. The receding tide then causes water movement out and it carries a lot of food matter to within reach of game fish. During the spring and summer months you can often get unusually good flounder action in areas of high tide runoff.
Currents churn loose all kinds of minute marine life in the troughs along the beachfront.
Passes, cuts and the channel side of jetties always produce well during the first hour or two after a high tide turns and begins to fall. Offshore bottom fishing can be miserably slow when there is a complete absence of currents. If moving water is a key ingredient in good fishing, then the faster it moves the better the fishing. Not necessarily so. Fish normally swim into the current.