Tides, daft question but....

[Ankle.Biter]

When the tide is on the way down what compas direction (roughly) is the water traveling?


I'm only asking because I've been reading lots of articles about shads, down tiding using perks and uptiding and feeling the bite.


If makes a difference I fish off Sunderland. Normally amongst a million poorly marked crab pots !

[hulme6612]

I believe when the tide is on its way out it goes north, and floods south

[volante]

Ebb tide goes North and flood tides goes South, shads will be working in both tides except the slack waters (bacon sandwich time)
The best thing to do with pots etc is give them a wide berth especially around Sunderland,
some of the boats are using markers you dont see until your on top of them.

Davey

[oldessox]

Ebb to Edinburgh , flood to flambrough , that's how I remember .

[Ankle.Biter]

Many thanks chaps, it's all starting to make sense.

I especially like the "bacon sarnie" time

I must get a little gas stove off Santa.

[lingking]

Ebb to Edinburgh , flood to flambrough , that's how I remember .

nice one ray

[Kev1n]

Ebb to Edinburgh , flood to flambrough , that's how I remember .

That’s how I remember it too!
Be aware that the tide changes direction about an hour and a half to two hours after low and high tide.

[The Jester]

Thanks for sharing the chart Kev, good bit of info

[northeast1]

It is a good chart Kev has put up he beat me to it. It is great when deciding what wrecks to fish as some wrecks i fish you can only really fish when the tide is either ebbing or flooding due to the lay of the wreck/snags.
I think i must be one of the only boat anglers that likes slack tide or no drift better than a 0.4 - 0.7knot drift

[big cod]

Remember once you are a couple of miles off and beyond off its upto 3 hours later then the tide book giveing high water on the beach.

paul.

[Ankle.Biter]

Remember once you are a couple of miles off and beyond off its upto 3 later then the tide book giveing high water on the beach.

paul.

Thank you Paul I had not considered the position off shore.

[phill_itofish]

Sorry to drag up an old post lads, but looking at the data on that sheet, does that mean if you just driffted for 12 hours you would more or less end up back where you were. Obviously not accounting for and wind or anything.

[Darnc]

You learn something every day

[Stores]

Sorry to drag up an old post lads, but looking at the data on that sheet, does that mean if you just driffted for 12 hours you would more or less end up back where you were. Obviously not accounting for and wind or anything.

Phil, I'm not back to "work" until Monday and don't have any angle thingys with me but I'll set it as a question for my 16 year old "not nice and not dim" group and see what they come up with.

[phill_itofish]

Cheers Dave, i did a quick sketch at work today but i didn't take into account speed. I might have another go tomorrow, while the boss is out.