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Originally Posted by LuaP73
my buddy insisnt that the fish only bite during high tide, incommong and outgoing.
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I would say that is wrong, especially if he means that fish only feed closer to high tide. I have spots that are best on the bottom of the drop, sometimes the last hour. Some are better just as the tide starts to rise. Some are best at the top... some middle.
Depends on the spot and sometimes its not that the fish are only there at that point, but it fishes best at that point. By that I mean, you can present your lure or bait best at that point in the tide.
Over the weekend, I had a slow day, but I finally got a few small fish sight casting on a flat at dead low tide in 12" of clear water.
I generally do better when the tide is moving, but that may have more to do with the fact that I'm fishing spots where the fish stage up in the current waiting for food to be washed to them. When the tide slacks, they probably are just moving to a different feeding strategy. Maybe it just makes them less predictable to find.
I really have trouble believing that a fish won't eat a live herring swimming on his nose b/c of the stage of the tide. They may be less active or harder to find.
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