neep tides

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:48 am

with neep tides having such a small difference between low and high water depths, what effect does this have on fishing? is it treat he same as a very low to very high tide, or should it be considered as a low tide or a high tide?

graham

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:01 am

Fishing tends to be poor on neap tides, the fish tending to stay in deeper water. On Spring tides the fish come closer inshore to forage on lug, rag, razor fish, clams and mussel.

This is one of the reasons that anglers travel some distances as when the tide is poor on the East coast its a good tide on the west coat.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:30 pm

i still cant get my head around this "big tide neap tide spring tide" malarky,i know the tidal pull is stronger around full and new moon,mid/half moon is less pull,and i know locally when the full tide is and ebb etc...

ive had good fish on all different tides

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:15 am

The following should help

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/

You can catch fish at anytime but a Spring tide will give you the best chance of something decent .
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:41 am

kieth thats a fantastic link,explains everything in laymans terms,even mrs.1i can understand it,i have bookmarked it now.

all the best

Andy

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:31 am

great link kieth thanks