never... well never out of fishing. i might pick a different spot. temps and sun light played more of role than tides. cooler water with bright sunlight = pay offs for me. also spent alot of time looking for clear water. which can often be hard to find from shore. which is really the only time tides effected my fishing. cause right after the tide turns to incoming it pushes the muck back towards shore putting the clear water with in wadng and casting distance. once i could get into it.. great results. (including big ones that i completely screwed up on in the waves.) but more often than not that line between murky and clear was out of reach. :(

tides, they mean nothing,there is always a place to catch fish with indifference to what the tide is.it only comes into play if you direct it to a specific spot.some fish better at low tide, some fish better at high tide, some fish better in the middle, some places are current dependant, some are not , some fantastic structure cannot be reached unless the tide is low.you have to discuss tide in relation to specific places or else it means nothing. billy and i have had some great fishing when everyone else thought the tide was wrong.

When you've got a young family, fishing efficiently is the only way to survive. Years of fishing efficiently is a hard habit to break. But when your kids are grown and off (sadly sooner than you think possible) efficiency takes a back seat to just getting out there......and just getting out there becomes the primary reward in itself.

My best night last year the wind was wrong and I said "I don't even know why we are gonna try here tonight."A dozen fish over 35# later I had forgotten about the wrong wind.

It was the right tide though, just like the night we had when the wind was wrong in another place.....

Well said, numbskull!

AND, right on for my current situation.
Your previous post speaks volumes ~as well~
regarding whether to GO or not to GO!

Oddly enuff, before i *learned* the right tide, to narrow and maximize my Striper Window, i would GO with the mindset of hammering the whole tide and several places as the tide would dictate. it seems we are faced with a veritable "Catch 22", when one must balance the commitment to family, work, and landing THE fish of a Lifetime. the olde damned if you DO, and damned if you DON'T sort of thing.

i really enjoy those three or four times a season that my bride & daughter afford me the unlimited weekend excursions ~mostly around sum "select" New moons, as the TIDES will always be there.
they just seem to be more productive during those times :uhuh: :uhuh:

yeah, if they didn't want to catch 30+ lb fish for two weeks straight from the shore they would be wise not to emulate you. :hee:

When it comes to fishing...I keep it simple:
Rule 1: Life determines when I fish.
Rule 2: Tides (and other conditions) determine where I fish.

Note to self: The ocean is full of hungry fish.
Note to self: Family. Work. Fishing. (In that order)

:-)

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