Garden City Beach Pier, Surf & Creeks Fishing Report August 2021

Hey guys just wanted to do a quick fishing report for the garden city beach area. So the pier at garden city, garden, city beach, and then the creeks and marshes kind of around garden city and also in murals and lit a little bit. So I was there a few weeks ago, fishing out on the pier with my son. He really wanted to go to the pier. So I kinda got a good taste of what was biting out there and then all the creeks and everything that we've been fishing kinda got a great taste of what's biting in there as well, and kind of what Bates are working and when and where to fish for certain fish. So in general just about everything that's gonna bite at these beaches and then these creeks out on that pier is biting right now.
So the only thing probably missing is maybe your bigger like bull reds and bull blacks black drums that, you know, are not quite here yet. Maybe they're starting to roll in here and there, but really this is probably about a month or month and a half too early for those guys to be rolling down and be able to catch those in the surf yet. Or even in the marsh. Now that doesn't mean you can't go out there and get like a puppy drum that is 25, 27, 29 inches long. We've been getting those, so they're totally there. The big boys, the real big boys, like 35 inches, or, you know, just the real big guys, those guys from my experience are not quite here yet. But so that, that's the only thing that you're probably not going to get.
What you're going to get is let's just start with the peer really quick. So let me zoom in here real quick. And you know, so what we did is we were fishing a little bit on the side and of course he wanted to go into the arcade. So, so we, we didn't fish all that long. But we were fishing out of the side and getting like Whiting and croaker and all that stuff we were using. Just a basic fish finder rig with one OD circle hook fluorocarbon leader on that. And we were just using a salted shrimp. So shrimp that I've taken that our bait shrimp and I salted them with some sea salt and kosher salt and dried them out really good. And that way they stay on the hook much better.
So using that and then going out to the end there we were, when we got a spot out there, we were casting real far. And even though you're not supposed to sharp fish there, we weren't, we weren't meaning to catch sharks, but that's what was nibbling on the, the stuff that we were throwing out there. And so all that can be caught out here. I think that it's going to be a tough go to catch a lot of like red drum and black drum probably in this area just because of the amount of people that are fishing and swimming and all this stuff. So you know, the, the peers are great place to fish in general, if you don't fish much you need to rent the equipment and that kind of thing, just use shrimp on a circle hook.
You're probably gonna catch something. Besides that though with this particular peer, from my experience your best bet is actually to go down the beach and throw from there. If you have a surf rod, so when I'm on the beach fishing here, what I'm looking for are cuts that are kind of like rip tides that are pulling out. And so just remember when you're surfing fishing and you probably already know this, but if you don't it's not necessarily how far you can throw it, it's about putting it in the right spot. So sometimes yes, you need to throw it away out there, but sometimes you don't at all. So if it's high tide and there's a nice, like tide pool, that's coming right off the beach there like literally right in front of you, then as soon as that water comes up, then big fish are going to be running right off the beach there.
And they're going to be eating all the sand fleas and everything that are kind of like pouring in there. So you need to just basically throw right off the beach and most likely you're going to get a big fish. And so if there's big rip tides that are pulling out from the beach, then you want to be casting into those either inside of them or or at the end of them. And so sometimes that's what requires you to throw past like a sandbar after, you know, past two sets of waves and all that, like two breaks is just getting to the end of that. But really what you want to be looking for when you're looking for those, if you don't already know is there's going to be waves and like whitewater crashing, then there'll be kind of like a calm spot.
And sometimes that calm spot will have like brownish water coming up and that's just because there's, riptides going through there and it's just turning everything up. So that's really what you need to be looking for. That's where the Fisher kind of stacked up, waiting for all the stuff to get sucked off the beach, back to them. And that's at high tide and low tide. Sometimes it stays the same when it's high tide, low tide, cause it's a really deep cut.