I've had my best corbina bites on out going and right towards the bottom of low tide. While my best perch bites have come off incoming closer to the top of high tide. A lot of guys who fish halibut from shore prefer to fish during low tide.

What I have found is that if your going to be successful in the surf or just about anywhere else you fish that's inshore there needs to be current and the moving water will hold the fish . Weather it be incoming or out going the tide creates the current. When there's no current you can count on slow fishing. I've also found that depending on the geography of a beach most beaches will bite better on incoming tides with the time frame when the most water is being moved by the tide cycle being the best. Not all beaches are best on incoming tides. Some beaches will bite better on out going tides. Also as the post below mentioned the rips pushing water off the beach will ussually produce bites. They will hold Perch especially. Rips will hold corbina too but the corbina like to cruise up and down the along the trenches and holes in the water very close to shore in search of crabs.

JerryG