Make sure to wash the palms of your hands or rub them on the bottom of the flat to get the lotion off your hands. Also rub mud or sand off the bottom of the flat into your fly. Wade fishing deep water flats can be a difficult challenge. When your three feet into the water it is very difficult to see the fish. Fish these flats during or around low tide.
Deep flats can fish good an hour before or after low tide.
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