Google Earth....What A Wonderful Tool!
                                              Part #2
#1- Current
 The first thing I look for when scanning Google Earth for that new honey hole is current. Current brings dinner to predators! Looking for obvious signs of current is fairly simple. It may be a marsh drain that has obviously been eroded by water moving through it during tidal changes or as simple as a mud line developing coming out of a feeder creek and into a larger body of water. Wind current can also be a factor but a bit more difficult to discover on GE unless you want to get into researching weather patterns and the history of which is something else to get into. Current is the second most important thing that, in my opinion, can make or break a fishing trip.

#2- Structure
 The second thing I start looking for is structure. Now I'm not necessarily talking about the visible above surface structure that everyone can see. I'm talking more about the things you can find on Google Earth that may look like nothing more then a dark spot in the water. These spots may be a brush pile just below the surface or perhaps an oyster bed that can't be seen other then by aerial footage. Deeper channels that may hold fish can also often be found. To go along with all of this, a good GPS unit comes in very handy. Just take the coordinates off of GE and plug them into your graph and bingo!......

(Here you can easily see the two submerged humps just above the exposed hump in the photo.)

My #3-#5 things to look for are coming up in my next post including the most important thing that I look for!......