Fishing during high tide can be excellent if a river feeds into the ocean as salmon enter during this period. Fishing at low tide can be good if you fish in the deep parts. You can use a tide chart to find the best date and times. Fish move with the tides.
Rising tides
The flooding or the rising tides is a better fishing time than when the tides are low or high because of the water movements. The fish tends to feel the eating need when the water is moving. During the tides, lure and baits will work differently. This is because the effects of the moving water will act on these elements in a different manner. For example, lures move closer to the shores than usual during the rising tides.
You can always use the tides to your advantage to ensure you effectively ambush fish as they move out of their holes. You can also use a strategy that helps move the hook close to the fish as they are preparing to start moving.
Fishing in Low Tides
There are many reasons why we discourage fishing during the low tides. One, there is no water movement during the low tides. Another hindrance to fishing on low tides is the lack of enough water in a fishing area that fish could be absent. For these reasons, fish might have moved to places with favorable conditions. Low tides are not the best fishing times because there is not sufficient fish around to catch.
Low water levels and stagnant water experienced in low tides are sufficient for pushing the fish away for some time. Besides, fish do not like eating where the movement is limited. Therefore, trying your hook into the water will not be meaningful.
That said, there are a few tips that might work for fishing on low tides. During such a time, water will be flowing to deeper places. The places carry food towards them, attracting fish. During the low tides, you should concentrate your fishing efforts on these areas. Fish will always e willing to feed if sufficient food is available for them in such areas. For this reason, you could still catch a lot of fish if you chose a good location.
Fishing on the Falling Tides
A falling tide is a situation where the water level in an ocean or a sea begins falling. When the ocean waters are retreating, it sucks small plants and insects with it. Fish usually enjoy feasting on these elements. Therefore, it is best to drop a fishing line into the water with bait to catch the fish because they are active and feeding.
Dropping a bait or a lure into the water will attract an eye of a hungry fish. The moving waters will help take your fishing line to the center of the waters where fish are in plenty.
We usually recognize and recommend falling tides as the best fishing time for various reasons. First, the tides will carry the bait to the deeper waters, nearing where fish are gathered in plentiful. As more waters push to the center, the currents will grow stronger. Fortunately, this will turn the feeding frenzies among the fish.
So why tides in the ocean waters?
The gravitational pull between the earth and the moon causes tides. Besides, the little interference of the gravitational pull from the sun is also a cause of different tide patterns in the oceans. The moon causes the greatest on the water because it is closer to the earth than the sun. As the moon orbits around the earth, it pulls the ocean waters towards it, causing the tides.
Tides are periodical. One can calculate and predict the tides with great accuracy. Low tides will occur two times a day, as is the case with low tides. Anglers need to know the timers that these tides will occur for a good timing that will be helping in catching as much fish as possible.
Tides are known to change many things in the oceans—for instance, the change in the currents surrounding the waters. Tides can also change the time that fish go out feeding. Tides can affect the place you will go fishing. When the tides are too high, the places you go fishing will have too much water and become too deep for fishing.
Besides, low tides can reduce the amount of water you go fishing and make the ocean much shallow. Excessively deep or shallow waters are not suitable for fishing because they will not contain fish.
There are other factors that tides affect as far as fishing is concerned. Fish are very specific in their preferred environment, which means that interference from high or low tides might reduce the availability of fish in areas where you go fishing.
High Tides
During the high tides, the highest point is not suitable for fishing. During the high tides, movement is usually inhibited. The water and fish at the high tides tend to stagnate. When the water is not moving, fish are turned off because they do not feel the need to be eating.
It is important to remember that ocean tides are always dramatic. Specifically, the ocean tides differ in miles between low vs. high tides. This is very different from river tides that vary in inches or lake tides, usually varying in feet.
The huge difference in low vs. high tides across the oceans affects the fishing plans drastically. However, you can still go fishing if you gathered enough information about the tidal patterns.
Tides control where the currents will be deposited through the drastic and subtle current changes. While fish could congregate around these areas, it is essential to note what times the different tides will be occurring.
Make the right fishing choice if you’re experiencing low or high tide fishing challenges.
