Good one DS very informative like you said when your losing your bucktails your in the target area at least then you just need to find where those fish are holding in that target area.To me the inlets are harder to get a read on unless you learn them upside down and backwards.One thing I like to do when the water is slowing down enough while I'm waiting for the turn around is to throw a live eel no weight and just let him swim around on his own my theory is the fish are starting to move to stage up for the turnaround and that eel is irresistable if they see it. This has gotten me two fish in the thirties(lbs.)and I just did it early one morning when the BT didn't produce I had some eels and just said What the hell threw on a bait rig and wham.So when in doubt try anything.