Understanding optimal tides for speckled trout fishing

[@Jdoggy_]

We’ve been out in rigolets, lake borne, lake katherine, shell beach, chef pass areas, its always just hit or miss for me i cant ever figure out the tide and where its going

[@Jdoggy_]

All down different cuts down intercoastal too, hard to tell for me

[@stevencole7331]

I was fishing the Elizabeth river in Chesapeake VA and I waded out into the river and got nothing the first 2 days fishing it with a incoming tide . I decided to change it up and go with a outgoing tide . The water has a bit more clarity and I could see I could wade out a bit further as it was shallow . This got me closer to the channel which I started getting some action . The previous days I was fishing in noman's land as I did not understand the structure of the bottom . I am in the water fishing which can be a bit challenging . Low tide gave me an answer to the structure of the bottom and got me closer to where the fish were