Help with Ocean tides

[Bear13]

Gents, how can one tell the tides of his or her 30 lines to the canyon. Looking to get tide charts, or similar, of the deep waters.

[captnemo]

Tide effects in the ocean are too negligible to measure, if your talking currents, thats a different thing all together.

[Bear13]

OK, Agreed that the rise and fall is small. However, I have read by some greats of Tuna bites that occur during a change of the tide or at specific tides. Fred Archer was one example of many. How can I tell the tide or change of current of my local canyons and 30 lines?

[gmoney]

Tuna feed and leave on the changing of the current, most still refer to it as tide however.

[captnemo]

OK, Agreed that the rise and fall is small. However, I have read by some greats of Tuna bites that occur during a change of the tide or at specific tides. Fred Archer was one example of many. How can I tell the tide or change of current of my local canyons and 30 lines?

TIDE changes do not exist in the ocean for any practical purpose! In theory they exist because the high tides in coastal water come from the ocean, but there is NO way to measure, predict or utilize tides in the ocean.

Surface currents are prevalent in the ocean and contribute hugely to the feeding and congregation of fish.

Inshore, tides and currents are closely tied in that the coming and going of high and low tide cause current.

When one talks about currents offshore, these are completely different then inshore currents and have ZERO relation to tides.

But like you, I have heard of people talk about tides in the ocean, they are simply wrong, thats the short answer.

[Patudo]

Tides are generated by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. This happens out at sea as well but there is no land to show the rise and fall of sea level with the tide. Where there is land out there in the ocean, ie. mid-ocean islands such as Bermuda, Hawaii, Madeira, the Azores and Ascension island, all of these have tides.

To the original poster, I would check the tide tables up and down the coast from your home port to get a feel for when the tide changes happen. You can then make an educated guess when the tide change is likely to be where you're fishing. Weather buoys may provide tidal info. There is software that will compute a tide prediction based on latitude and longitude.

Current is a completely different story.