Then I read this that makes sense 'It’s easy to assume that because the tide goes in and out, slack water should coincide with the time when the tide is all the way in or all the way out, but that would be incorrect. I thought the flow would be going full tilt in or out at that point? When I look the the graph it says slack at the midway point. Now I thought slack was at that turning point where the tide is changing from in to out. So you look at a tide table or a graph and see the tide going out/in and peaking and coming in/out. I had always thought the best time for fishing was an hour before and after a tide change. I seem to be having a brain fart on slack tide I thought I knew but havent thought about this for awhile. And yes you will find certain locations that will produce consistently and generally less fussy to give up fish, these will be your "go to" spots for the action, and then usually move on to continue the exploration and gathering of data, by trying other new locations, or previous locations but at different tides or times of the year.Īlso listen closely to the old timers that are willing to share details (some of them do), and try their shortcuts, lots of times they will pay off, or, you will get to their spot and find twenty other boats there too, (because they have told everyone they meet about their hot-spot). When you go back over your records from past years, a pattern usually develops as to the best tides, moon patterns, weather, and time of the year, to fish a given location. Definitely knowing your location and the way the water flows in the area, also knowing what times of the year that fish hold in that location, really pay off.Īs was mentioned above, keep a log book, put in some time in a variety of locations, observe and make records. I can't say that I have caught more fish or less fish on a slack tide, it really comes down to being in the right place at the right time and offering the best presentation to induce a strike. But there are times that one would swear they are needed to find the fish. Of course structure is the twist in the sobriety-every point of land or drop-off will have its own unique characteristics during a tide change and that character is what influences how the water moves past it on different stages of a tide -but once its truly slack? In my experience that's a ringing dinner bell -easier to get your gear in the zone and keep it in the zone, easier to get your gear into hidey-holes along the structure you're fishing, easier to get up close and personal with rock faces and shelves. I target an hour before and an hour after either the high slack or the low slack-any minute that passes between that two hour period (including the full slack on either a high or a low tide ) is prime time television as far as I'm concerned.īait disperses on a slack? Based on what I have seen over the years on my sounder screens, bait clumps on a slack and when that happens salmon home in for the kill. I'm not sure who "bro'science" is but in my experience, high slack or low slack is absolutely not the time to slack. What's the biggest give away this is happening? watch the tide and where people are catching the fish, the guys on the outside start catching more fish when before they weren't catching that many. Fishing can be good on a good size flood but as soon as it goes slack, the fishing is not as good - why?īait was being pushed right along this steep edge (wall), thus concentrating both bait and salmon, when the tides goes slack, the bait 'schools' starts to disperse away from the steep edge and hence the salmon follow. Here's a prime example of a spot I fished a number of years ago, on a good flood tide (+10ft differential) the tide pushes around this point for a good portion of its change, this point is relatively wide and has a relatively steep drop into deep water so it creates a good fishable area / section (wall) of ~100m. As a 'general' rule this disperse concept is very applicable so long as the slack tide truly goes slack, as those noted before every location and every tide can be different.
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