surfrat22 Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 under jones inlet it says 5:50 low slack. not the case i get there and by 5:20 the current starts comin in . wont say when i was intending to fish but....whats the deal? has anyone else had this problem or is this just a stupid mistake on my part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niffty Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 See if these work out better for you. Tides Hot dogs were invented in 1936 by Larry Hotdogs when he accidentally dropped a bag of prize-winning pig buttholes into his Dick Shaper Machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.C. Sines Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 that's 20 twenty off , not a lot . they are usually never that precise and conditions effect them , wind mostly . it looks like you made a good observation , not a mistake . i often find them early at times , depending on exactly where you are . An oceans Striper is tough , mean and strong . Nurtured by the oceans bounty , wits sharpened by the oceans competition , toughened by the swift , endless , tidal currents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-bunker dunker Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 under jones inlet it says 5:50 low slack. not the case i get there and by 5:20 the current starts comin in . wont say when i was intending to fish but....whats the deal? has anyone else had this problem or is this just a stupid mistake on my part it can be low slack with incoming current, and high slack with outgoing current. started around midnight thurs night, and the current for where i was was 3 hours off than predictions. life is short . play hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.C. Sines Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 it can be low slack with incoming current, and high slack with outgoing current. started around midnight thurs night, and the current for where i was was 3 hours off than predictions. good point . An oceans Striper is tough , mean and strong . Nurtured by the oceans bounty , wits sharpened by the oceans competition , toughened by the swift , endless , tidal currents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadabout Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 I don't know, I came up with 6:13 PM for today (11/2) when I calculated Low Water slack from The Fisherman's tables. The High Water slack on The Narrows is 12:31PM. To adjust for Jones Inlet you subtract 0:48 which gives you 11:43AM. Then you add 6 1/2 hours to this to get low water slack, which gives you 6:13PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfrat22 Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 sorry gadabout 4got 2 say this was friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadabout Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 It's a little odd that the Fisherman table did not have a PM listing for friday on The Narrows. The AM listing was 12:05 AM. You would expect another listing for roughly 12 hours later, which would have been shortly after Noon. When you say in your first post, "5:50 low slack", I'm not exactly clear on where you're getting that from. The Fisherman doesn't list low water slack directly. You have to calculate it. Also, since it is an inlet, "low tide" and "low water slack" are not the same thing. To find the time when the current starts flowing out, which is what I think you're trying to do, you have to calculate low water slack from the Current Tables at the bottom of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-bunker dunker Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 It's a little odd that the Fisherman table did not have a PM listing for friday on The Narrows. The AM listing was 12:05 AM. You would expect another listing for roughly 12 hours later, which would have been shortly after Noon. When you say in your first post, "5:50 low slack", I'm not exactly clear on where you're getting that from. The Fisherman doesn't list low water slack directly. You have to calculate it. Also, since it is an inlet, "low tide" and "low water slack" are not the same thing. To find the time when the current starts flowing out, which is what I think you're trying to do, you have to calculate low water slack from the Current Tables at the bottom of the page. what he said, it is so ****** confusing, thurs night it was about 3 hours off... it was supposed to be ebbing by 1230 and didnt really start til 3ish. life is short . play hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocksMeEasy Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Current: horizontal movement of water Tide: vertical movement of water Example: In an inlet area it could be high TIDE at 12pm but high slack CURRENT could be at 3pm. The tide will be the highest its going to go at 12pm, the current will still be coming in until 3pm, but between 12pm and 3pm the TIDE will often be dropping, or stay the same height, mostly dropping. Confusion occurs because people think if the tide chart says high: 12pm that they can go there at 12:20pm and get the first of the ebb, NO, they will most likely have the last of the in for several hours. The small constraints of an inlet and a huge bay the water cannot flush out fast enough so this phenomenon takes place. It could never be high slack CURRENT at 12pm and then the high slack CURRENT at 3pm. 6 hours difference. A great explanation of this in local waters is explained in the book Night Tides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBD Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 under jones inlet it says 5:50 low slack. not the case i get there and by 5:20 the current starts comin in . wont say when i was intending to fish but....whats the deal? has anyone else had this problem or is this just a stupid mistake on my part you know where I fish. the tide was a few hours off on friday . TBD CC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfrat22 Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 k heres how i got my current for friday evening. i took 12:05 and subtacted :48 which is 11:17am which is high slack so then i added 6:30 to figure out low slack which is 5:47. now i get there assuming to fish a certain tide but by 5:20 the current starts moving in. i know 17 minutes isnt much but thats the most ive ever had the fisherman been off. then the following night i calculated low slack to be at 6:10 i get there and the current starts comin in at 5:35 .all of it makes sense i was just a little ticked that the currents were off. lesson learned get there 30 minutes early. i guess i should be grateful because tianabeachdudes tides were off by 3 hours which is just insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadabout Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 The 12:05 listing is an AM listing, meaning it's 5 minutes after midnight early friday morning (or late thursday night of you want to look at it that way). For whatever reason, they did not give the corresponding listing that would have happened sometime near 12 Noon on friday. The only explanation I can think of for this was that this time might have been slightly before noon, making it another "AM" time. Since they could not rightfully list an AM time in the PM column and they already had an AM time (12:05 AM) for friday, they had to leave this listing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBD Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 i guess i should be grateful because tianabeachdudes tides were off by 3 hours which is just insane. I could be wrong but the water started moving out way off the time table ... TBD CC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadabout Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Keep in mind that all the tide charts that you will find are just predictions based on lunar and solar behavior. They can't take into account the weather because that's just not known in advance. Weather can have a significant impact on the tide. One day a couple of years ago I went to a LI Sound beach that I know pretty well. I arrived at a time that was pretty close to the published low tide. It was a windy/stormy day. When I got there I found to my surprise that it was not anywhere near low tide conditions. In fact it was about as high as I've ever seen it in this spot. I returned the next day about the same time. The storm had passed and now the tide was low, in other words "normal". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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