Poll: prefer kayak fishing at low or high tide?

Saltwater Kayak Fishing
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Ok, just trying to stimulate a little discussion on here…

Kayak Forum Poll:
What is your ideal tide scenario for kayak fishing? </font id=“size1”>

Is fishing around a high or low tide a deciding factor in your trip?

Or do you not even check the tide charts and paddle up wappoo cut 3hrs into an outgoing tide?

I am partial to high tide and typically try to put in a hour or two before peak tide so I’m riding the current both ways. Although catching an outgoing current to low tide is a great way to cover some ground and get out to kiawah/morris/jetties and scoot back when it turns. Though, I usually just fish around high.

(not me)

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i like to start just before the high…then fish 2 hours or so of outgoing.here lately i been fishin 2 before full high to 2 after.

spottail are tearin the shrimp up.no trout lately though.

native watercraft ultimate 12
gots to get out for some trout

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I let the fish make that decision for me. If the fish I’m after are more prevelant on a tide I fish that tide. If it works to my advantage so far as paddling with the tide all the better. I’m really a fisherman first & a paddler second. I got into the kayaking thing so I could fish for fish I otherwise can’t reach. I enjoy paddling & being able to sneak up on fish. But it’s truly a means to an end. To paddle for the sake of paddling really doesn’t do anything for me.

I say we fish 5 days & work 2

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I don’t know about tides…but I am with you on the fish 5 days work 2 !!! Lets send an amendment to congress:smiley:
If my memory serves me corectly…that is “cubsfan” from KFS…I belive in Tampa Bay.Has anyone else seen this pic. before ?

The more you fish,the better you lie.

14.5 'yak 175 lb motor

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So…Labor Day weekend…Fish 6 and work for one?

Mud

boatless

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I like incoming the best. I like to start just before low or at low depending on how much time I have to fish.

If a man wakes up early to go fishing he 's sleep deprived, If a man wakes up late to go fishing he’s fish deprived

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I usually time the tide so it carries me out and back… if travel isn’t a problem, then I prefer being on site when the tide starts going out from high, or being on site when the tide starts coming in from low. In other words I like to catch the tides when they first start moving either way.

SG

Tarpon 160i
Native Ultimate 14.5