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Originally Posted by Back Beach
I agree with you fully, but that's how I shore fish at all of my locations.Admittedly this approach is an all or nothing one, but I can handle the skunkings in hopes of being right once in a while. 
From the boat its a lot different as you can cover a lot of ground. |
I'm referring to shore fishing. Although using tides to increase your efficiency is smart and a benefit of experience, I find the tradeoff is that I often used to decide not to go fishing, "because the tide isn't right, the moon is wrong, the wind is bad, etc, etc, etc". Ask yourself honestly, how many times last year did you consider going but talked yourself out of it because the tide (or wind direction, or moon phase) was wrong? Over thinking the situation leads to lost opportunity. Now I try to decide first if I feel like fishing (not whether the tide is right or my chances good), if I feel like going I go, if the tide isn't ideal I just try to adapt. I fish more, learn more, catch more, and am repeatedly surprised by what I find when I do go. Fish eat 24 hours a day. We all laugh at beginners fishing the wrong time in the wrong place, but when I think how often they stumble upon a fish I would have been happy catching, I realize that experience is a double edged sword.