Coming back for a second bite of the apple following up on my questions two years ago. From your personal experience with all other factors being equal, do halibut bite best on an incoming tide or an ebb tide? Lastly, have you ever seen a better overall halibut bite than what’s being experienced in the bay this year, 2023? Thanks!
Thanks! Tides4Fishing is new to me so I appreciate the tip to increase my forecast data with the addition of this app. I’ve heard anglers talk about moon rise and moon set which can occur anytime throughout the day, I think. Does moon rise and/or moon set impact your fishing decisions? Also, can you talk about wind direction and how it can impact your drift differently on incoming tides versus outgoing tides? Do you have a favorite wind direction? Lastly, it seems you prefer drifting live bait over trolling dead anchovies, herring, or sardines. Can you share some of your trolling experiences and how sometimes trolling dead bait might be more effective than drifting? I usually launch from the east bay and won’t risk crossing the bay in my smallish boat to get live bait, so I’m forced to troll. Thanks again for your very informative vid!
Those are great questions! For wind I use the windy app for wind direction and wind velocity. Being that in the Bay it gets windy around 1-3 pm even on calm days i always get excited when I see an outgoing tide at around noon because the current and the wind will usually counter balance each other and help slow the drift. Also always use a Drift sock when possible. As for moon rose and set I haven’t payed too much attention to that. I’m sure it plays a role somehow but Not enough time make me pay attention to it. The phases of the moon are more important in my opinion. Thanks for watching!!
Hi, I was out yesterday 9/13/2020 and I use Tides4fishing religiously, Have you notice the accuracy is way off and I mean alot! example of what I mean, and I pay attention so I will ask about how you feel, if you look at yesterdays tides we were supposed to have an incoming tide or top of the tide at 10:18am but for some odd reason the tide actually continued to flow in all the way in until 4pm when I left the water, i even noticed it when docking too at Marina Bay Yacht Harbor so i'm not crazy, but the charts made me question how accurate these are. I was on around the Alcatraz area from 8:30 AM and Angel island all day so this is how I know, not ONCE did the tide change OUTGOING on me as expected after 10:18am, that was weird, I noticed this because I drift fish for halibut alot and I drifted east of the bridge the entire day I didn't even see feel or notice the outgoing tide at all that day and were supposed to have a 5 hour outgoing on that day, im not making this up, I drifted west to east of the bridge the entire day so that is why I asked you have you noticed something off using these charts ? It threw me for a loop, this is NOT the first time I expected a tidal change that never happened. what are your thoughts, I carry go pros cameras on my boat so I can tell you that without a shadow of a doubt there was NOT an OUTGOING tide in the Bay from 10:18am to 2:57pm, sooooooo strange. I will also add this confirmation of this by saying my Tracking lines kept me west to east the whole day too so that's a double confirm of what I felt and saw
That is interesting, I have not had that experience with tides4fishing. I’m not questioning your skill but did you double check the date and month? Sometime I search the app to see what the best dates and times are and then I have to go back reset my date and month. Otherwise I can’t say I have had any of the issues you described.. I know this weekend had a low tidal coefficient so the current was very slow. In those situations sometimes the breeze overrides the current direction. I’ll investigate this further though.
@@alloutblitzfishing3317 Yup I am 100% positive, each outting I print out the tides and verify the dates along with the weather, you can even go back to Sept 13 and see the tides. But like I said that is not the first time the tide from that site have made me scratch my head, since I will be out this weekend, I will outside of the gates so maybe the tide readings are different when out in the open water, I don't know what to say. I am trying to get several charts for the day to see if one offers better information. anyway, take care thanks for the reply
9:52am in this video is low tide. Low tide and high tide is not "slack water" I see this all the time 99% of ppl seem to get this wrong. The tide is changing after 9:52 but it's gradual, it's not strong enough to turn the current around right at 9:52. The current won't start changing direction (go slack) for an hour or 2 after high/low tide. Another example the current is going towards the golden gate on the ebb @ 1.5mph, it will peak at low tide say 2mph and after tide turns the current is still going out towards golden gate but it's slowing down..1.9mph..1.5mph...8mph...boom slack tide. Now even though the tide has been going out maybe 1.5-2 hours it's just now changing the direction of current starting off slow again gradually getting faster until the next tide change. If u want proof anchor up 20 min before high tide and wait a while, then ask yourself why isnt the boat turning around? Hour and a half goes by...dam boat is barely now turning around, the tide book was wrong...nope...ur at slack tide not high tide 😁 Again high and low tide IS NOT THE SAME AS SLACK TIDE, NOR DOES IT HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME
Good recap of the fundamentals. Thanks dude!
Thanks for breaking it down on this website for tides. Tight lines🎣🎣🎣
Thank you very informative video.
One of the few extremely helpful videos for the Bay. Thank you so much for this, I learned a lot. Subbed
Sky thanks man I hope it helps you catch more fish!
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Coming back for a second bite of the apple following up on my questions two years ago. From your personal experience with all other factors being equal, do halibut bite best on an incoming tide or an ebb tide? Lastly, have you ever seen a better overall halibut bite than what’s being experienced in the bay this year, 2023? Thanks!
Thanks! Tides4Fishing is new to me so I appreciate the tip to increase my forecast data with the addition of this app. I’ve heard anglers talk about moon rise and moon set which can occur anytime throughout the day, I think. Does moon rise and/or moon set impact your fishing decisions? Also, can you talk about wind direction and how it can impact your drift differently on incoming tides versus outgoing tides? Do you have a favorite wind direction? Lastly, it seems you prefer drifting live bait over trolling dead anchovies, herring, or sardines. Can you share some of your trolling experiences and how sometimes trolling dead bait might be more effective than drifting? I usually launch from the east bay and won’t risk crossing the bay in my smallish boat to get live bait, so I’m forced to troll. Thanks again for your very informative vid!
Those are great questions! For wind I use the windy app for wind direction and wind velocity. Being that in the Bay it gets windy around 1-3 pm even on calm days i always get excited when I see an outgoing tide at around noon because the current and the wind will usually counter balance each other and help slow the drift. Also always use a Drift sock when possible. As for moon rose and set I haven’t payed too much attention to that. I’m sure it plays a role somehow but Not enough time make me pay attention to it. The phases of the moon are more important in my opinion. Thanks for watching!!
Hi,
I was out yesterday 9/13/2020 and I use Tides4fishing religiously, Have you notice the accuracy is way off and I mean alot!
example of what I mean, and I pay attention so I will ask about how you feel, if you look at yesterdays tides
we were supposed to have an incoming tide or top of the tide at 10:18am but for some odd reason the tide actually continued to flow in all the way in until 4pm when I left the water, i even noticed it when docking too at Marina Bay Yacht Harbor so i'm not crazy, but the charts made me question how accurate these are.
I was on around the Alcatraz area from 8:30 AM and Angel island all day so this is how I know, not ONCE did the tide change OUTGOING on me as expected after 10:18am, that was weird, I noticed this because I drift fish for halibut alot and I drifted east of the bridge the entire day
I didn't even see feel or notice the outgoing tide at all that day and were supposed to have a 5 hour outgoing on that day, im not making this up, I drifted west to east of the bridge the entire day so that is why I asked you have you noticed something off using these charts ? It threw me for a loop, this is NOT the first time I expected a tidal change that never happened.
what are your thoughts, I carry go pros cameras on my boat so I can tell you that without a shadow of a doubt there was NOT an OUTGOING tide in the Bay from 10:18am to 2:57pm, sooooooo strange. I will also add this confirmation of this by saying my Tracking lines kept me west to east the whole day too so that's a double confirm of what I felt and saw
That is interesting, I have not had that experience with tides4fishing. I’m not questioning your skill but did you double check the date and month? Sometime I search the app to see what the best dates and times are and then I have to go back reset my date and month. Otherwise I can’t say I have had any of the issues you described.. I know this weekend had a low tidal coefficient so the current was very slow. In those situations sometimes the breeze overrides the current direction. I’ll investigate this further though.
@@alloutblitzfishing3317 Yup I am 100% positive, each outting I print out the tides and verify the dates along with the weather, you can even go back to Sept 13 and see the tides. But like I said that is not the first time the tide from that site have made me scratch my head, since I will be out this weekend, I will outside of the gates so maybe the tide readings are different when out in the open water, I don't know what to say. I am trying to get several charts for the day to see if one offers better information.
anyway, take care thanks for the reply
9:52am in this video is low tide. Low tide and high tide is not "slack water" I see this all the time 99% of ppl seem to get this wrong. The tide is changing after 9:52 but it's gradual, it's not strong enough to turn the current around right at 9:52. The current won't start changing direction (go slack) for an hour or 2 after high/low tide. Another example the current is going towards the golden gate on the ebb @ 1.5mph, it will peak at low tide say 2mph and after tide turns the current is still going out towards golden gate but it's slowing down..1.9mph..1.5mph...8mph...boom slack tide. Now even though the tide has been going out maybe 1.5-2 hours it's just now changing the direction of current starting off slow again gradually getting faster until the next tide change. If u want proof anchor up 20 min before high tide and wait a while, then ask yourself why isnt the boat turning around? Hour and a half goes by...dam boat is barely now turning around, the tide book was wrong...nope...ur at slack tide not high tide 😁
Again high and low tide IS NOT THE SAME AS SLACK TIDE, NOR DOES IT HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME