[Mike P]

Yeah---both Mike T and Hawg Hunter Brad should have the charts, if they can get them. Brad said he's trying to arrange a pick-up from the Corps outside the gate.

I'll probably be at his booth for the show---when traffic's slow I'll visit the rest of you guys.

Mark---the biggest mistake people make in the Ditch is to plan their fishing by the time of high/low tide (tidal level) rather than by the direction and speed of the current (tidal flow). Whatever people think about about Frank Daignault (some love him, some hate him, most, like me, don't know him), his "Striper Surf" book contains a good explanation about the effect of tides on fishing, and more importantly, the regularity of the tide cycle. Once you have it down, you don't even need a tide chart unless the timing of it to a few minutes matters----all you need to know is the moon phase.

Ox mentioned something I missed the first time----the effect of the wind. In certain places, a hard SW can create "back-flow" where the tide is running opposite of what it should. This seam can move it, out, or disappear at certain levels of the tide---so I should qualify my remarks by saying, current is YSUALLY more important than tidal level, but not always.