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Great question! Here are my semi-random thoughts...

If I am at the water's edge, my line is in the water.
On time I was fishing...this guy was sitting there waiting for the tide.
A long story short, he held my rod as I pulled the hook out of a keepers mouth.

I fish the incoming and the outgoing. I am not too focused on the actual tide, but the structure that is formed or exposed as the tide come in or goes out.
I "wait for" bait holding structure, which tends to change as a function of the tide