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What's best for what species and what stage? Tkanks.

Anybody?

Your question is to vague. It reminds me of the type of questions WCTV has on there website. It leaves you scratching your head.

I will try to answer. Trout, Redfish 1 to 4 feet of water, most of the time.
Spanish and Bluefish 3 to 7 feet of water most of the time. Flounder, any depth all the time.

Ty..i think he meant incomming and out going also.

The answer is both the bigger the change, the better the bite and you move in or out to stay at the prescribed depth

PS: to elaborate just a tad more different areas produce better with different tides an Oyster bar may produce fish on one end or side during the rise and the other end or side on the fall there is no quick or easy answer, ya just gotta fish it and find what, when, where and how they bite for a certain area

Moving water equals a better chance at biting fish, slack water means better chance at not catching fish.

More water movement may be good for trout, but I prefer a lazy tide for redfish.

12 hour tides are awesome compared to 6 hour tides, but your location drives that option

Tide is important, but only a small piece of the puzzle, one should also consider the hours of daylight, moon phase, weather patterns and temperature and when you get that figured out you have to be in the right area or none of it means squat.

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Chalk wrote:12 hour tides are awesome compared to 6 hour tides, but your location drives that option.

Chalk,
I've got to ask, what's your reasoning for a 12 hour tide over a 6 hour tide....could it be continuous water movement in one direction for a longer period of time? Or, have I just embarrassed myself by asking a question that had an obvious answer I should have known?

Ron Wilson wrote:Chalk,
I've got to ask, what's your reasoning for a 12 hour tide over a 6 hour tide....could it be continuous water movement in one direction for a longer period of time?

Yes

TY is right. Fish prefer depth. Tide controls depth,coming or going.90% of the fish are in 10% of the water.Follow the depth.(as well as a lot of other stuff,like structure,water movement,etc.).

Chalk wrote:12 hour tides are awesome compared to 6 hour tides, but your location drives that option

My experience with why 12 (diurnal) hours tides "work" applies to 6 (semidiurnal) on a 1/4 moon because the window of action/water movement stays open longer. That's why I like 1/4's.

What I want to know is for trout do you prefer incoming/outgoing, first hour of/ last hour of, for trout and/or different for reds? What do you pros do?

Look in the FS magazine tide charts in the back. It will have a small fish icon on the most productive tide phase. I prefer falling, but movement is the key. It will turn off the bite quick on a slack tide. Two hours on either side is the best, but I fish when I can.