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What is more important to you Tide Movement or Solunar Tables?
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:18 am
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:18 am
When planning a fishing trip, what has more of an impact on the way you approach your strategy? Is it tide movement or solunar tables? If you know you will have a slack tide or the solunar table looks weak, do you try anyway?
I've been trying to pay more attention to both before planning a trip. But I wanted to pick the brain of the all knowing OB.
The place I have been fishing for reds, if the tide is moving, I will typically ignore the solunar table. I've had pretty good success as long as the water is moving in that area. The tide rising or falling makes a difference not where I fish, but how I fish each spot. I haven't fished when the solunar table showed high activity when the tide is slack yet, so I do not know how that would turn out. The only time I was skunked is when the tide wasn't moving at all.
Of course you also have to take into consideration water temp, clarity etc.....
I've been trying to pay more attention to both before planning a trip. But I wanted to pick the brain of the all knowing OB.
The place I have been fishing for reds, if the tide is moving, I will typically ignore the solunar table. I've had pretty good success as long as the water is moving in that area. The tide rising or falling makes a difference not where I fish, but how I fish each spot. I haven't fished when the solunar table showed high activity when the tide is slack yet, so I do not know how that would turn out. The only time I was skunked is when the tide wasn't moving at all.
Of course you also have to take into consideration water temp, clarity etc.....
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:23 am to deaconjones35
I only know salt water; my answer is tides
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:26 am to deaconjones35
TBH, I just fish when I can fish. The conditions are never going to be perfect. I have to be able to read them and make the best decisions based on my interpretation.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:27 am to mylsuhat
Are solunar tables used for saltwater fishing or is it just freshwater?
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:27 am to Devious
I also use tides mostly, but often the solunar tables go hand in hand with tidal movement. Weather is your biggest factor for trout fishing, IMO.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:35 am to deaconjones35
I need to listen, I have no idea what I'm doing reading tides. I look at the solunar tables sometimes but find it's hit and miss.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 9:56 am to deaconjones35
Tide movement.
If I am going fishing and tides suck I just make the most of it. I fish when I can.
If I am going fishing and tides suck I just make the most of it. I fish when I can.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 10:16 am to deaconjones35
Freshwater guy here...Solunar is the only way to go...
And when saltwater fishing doesn't really matter when you are cork fishing with dead bait...or trolling dead bait behind the boat...
And when saltwater fishing doesn't really matter when you are cork fishing with dead bait...or trolling dead bait behind the boat...
Posted on 3/6/12 at 10:17 am to deaconjones35
Tidal movements. Idk what solunar tables are to be honest
Posted on 3/6/12 at 10:23 am to Redfish2010
good info on tides and solunar tables
check the link above. great information on both. also great site to check tides and tables for plenty of locations worldwide.
check the link above. great information on both. also great site to check tides and tables for plenty of locations worldwide.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 10:34 am to TexasTiger
If I'm freshwater fishing I don't read either as I've found the fish don't usually bite and when they do they're too small. For saltwater I read the tidal charts. I don't know what they say but I read them. Doesn't matter anyways because if you find moving water and throw something dead out there under your cork you'll catch more than you want to clean.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 10:36 am to deaconjones35
isn't tides based off of lunar shite?
Posted on 3/6/12 at 10:40 am to Chad504boy
quote:I thought it was something to do with the moon's gravitational pull
based off of lunar shite
Posted on 3/6/12 at 11:03 am to 007mag
If I'm planning a trip to the coast I plan around the tide tables.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 12:22 pm to Chad504boy
quote:
isn't tides based off of lunar shite?
Thought so too. Im no salt water guy though.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 12:30 pm to Langston
Tidal movement is critical when chasing inshore species like trout, reds, blk drum, etc. They're just more reluctant to feed (and thus bite your lure) when the tide's slack. For trout, though, paying attention to the lunar periods is clutch for targeting wallhangers. The full moons of the spring months are key to hooking into a sow trout full of eggs.
Posted on 3/6/12 at 12:31 pm to Langston
It's all based off the moon. Saltwater fishing I look at tide charts. Freshwater I look for the minor and major feeding periods
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