Know What the Tides Will Be

• Tides in my area change every five and a half to six and a half hours. That means that the tides are roughly one hour later from one day to the next. If high tide at a creek I want to fish was nine this morning, it will be around 10 tomorrow morning.
  We all know the importance of fishing the right tide in a given area. I have places that I do well on a high and outgoing tide and other places that I do equally well on a low or incoming tide.
  So the first thing I do is to check and see what the tides will be on the day I plan to fish. And - not just in one location! As you move inland away from an inlet, the tide takes longer to rise and fall. It may be high in the inlet at nine in the morning, but as you move inland, the high tide will take longer to peak. A couple of miles inland means an hour or more of time before the tide will be high. That means you can plan to follow the high tide (or the low tide) as it moves inland. I have fished a slack high tide all day in some cases, simply by moving to locations farther inland as the high tide reached where I was fishing. And obviously I have followed the low tide as well.
  Bud