Barnes' tactic at the jetties is to use a bottom finder to locate holes and rocks that will create eddies in the current. What I look for are rocks that stick out from the base of the jetties. That' s where the current will form an eddy. And that's where big schools of specks will feed. They will position in the eddy and dart up as bait is swept by via the current.
Barnes also lives and dies with a slip cork.
Won't fish the jetties without them,'' says Barnes. I use slip corks that allow me to fish any depth. I don't get hung up on rocks. And it allows me to drift fish a live bait along the rocks. I can anchor in the general area where trout feed.