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Rivers were a pain at close to high tide. It spreads out the bait, the gamefish and makes finding productive spots harder. For rivers anyway, I always planned on the last 3 hours of the outgoing tide, which defined the channel, guaranteed a good current, located fish in predictable ambush spots etc. I agree with John and others in that fishing beaches is a different ball game, in that you might need the top of the tide to cover productive bars, troughs and holes, to the point where stripers are willing to come in and feed. Now that I'm more of a weekend warrior and boat fish, I don't even bother with the tide, I just shoot for a 3 am departure from my house.
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