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I believed the same as Sharphooks and KK and would look like this http://www.coos-bay.net/understanding-tides.html It seems this may not actually be true. So im just trying to get to the bottom of it.
From what darkri site says (its shows slack tide/current) and what ive found on other sites is
'Tide is vertical movement. Current is horizontal movement. Fishing in inlet areas high tide and high slack do not coincide. You can have an incoming current and a falling tide.
For simplicity, picture an hourglass laying on its side. Left side ocean right side bay, neck is the inlet. Ocean fills up water is rushing into bay. Water rises faster on the left side than it can fill up bay. When water level starts to drop on the left the water level still has not equalized. Water draining into right side of hour glass takes time to get through narrow opening. Thus you can have a falling tide, but still have incoming current. When the water equalizes the tide will go slack. High slack does not equal high water because the water level has already dropped. I refer to the current flow as flood and ebb and slack. High tide is just that. The current lag can vary from inlet to inlet and as was said before depending on wind conditions as well. The hourglass is an over simplification but an easy one to visualize'
Also why tides are different from Sooke to Oakbay because everything is at an angle (which i read and made sense but cant find.
The darkri site showing slack got me thinking about this and it seems half think one thing and half think the other.
My fishing partner is working nights this week so Im not able to get out on a boat. So I am trying my luck at fishing from shore so these times are even more crucial.
There are alot of sites explaining slack tide but very few saying which is high slack and which is low slack. I thought low slack would be the slack after a low tide but two sites I found say its after the high tide. Now craven says after a low tide, ahhh! lol
now the other thing is current slack and actually tide slack or is tide slack really current slack?
These questions are for all the analyzers out there.
From what darkri site says (its shows slack tide/current) and what ive found on other sites is
'Tide is vertical movement. Current is horizontal movement. Fishing in inlet areas high tide and high slack do not coincide. You can have an incoming current and a falling tide.
For simplicity, picture an hourglass laying on its side. Left side ocean right side bay, neck is the inlet. Ocean fills up water is rushing into bay. Water rises faster on the left side than it can fill up bay. When water level starts to drop on the left the water level still has not equalized. Water draining into right side of hour glass takes time to get through narrow opening. Thus you can have a falling tide, but still have incoming current. When the water equalizes the tide will go slack. High slack does not equal high water because the water level has already dropped. I refer to the current flow as flood and ebb and slack. High tide is just that. The current lag can vary from inlet to inlet and as was said before depending on wind conditions as well. The hourglass is an over simplification but an easy one to visualize'
Also why tides are different from Sooke to Oakbay because everything is at an angle (which i read and made sense but cant find.
The darkri site showing slack got me thinking about this and it seems half think one thing and half think the other.
My fishing partner is working nights this week so Im not able to get out on a boat. So I am trying my luck at fishing from shore so these times are even more crucial.
There are alot of sites explaining slack tide but very few saying which is high slack and which is low slack. I thought low slack would be the slack after a low tide but two sites I found say its after the high tide. Now craven says after a low tide, ahhh! lol
now the other thing is current slack and actually tide slack or is tide slack really current slack?
These questions are for all the analyzers out there.
