Where do Salt Water Fish Live?
Saltwater fish love structures, either for protection or as hiding places from which they can attack prey. Many areas of the water offer these opportunities.
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Rock Jetties
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Small crabs and fish live in the protection of the rocks that make up a jetty. Game fish prowl along the jetty waiting for an easy meal.
Piers
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Piers are constructed on pilings, which serve as the base for all sorts of marine life, including borer worms and bait fish.
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Channels
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Shipping channels are the highways for large vessels and fish as well. Predators wait along the channel edge for bait fish to swim across.
Wrecks
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Whether it is a sunken vessel or a large man-made reef, fish love structures of debris that have settled on the sea floor.
Bottom
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The safest place for fish is near the bottom, where they can eliminate the threat from much of the environment around them. A common saying among anglers is that 90 percent of the fish spend 90 percent of their lives on the bottom.
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