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finchaser
04-08-2011, 07:39 AM
what's an ebb and how do you find one?????????????????????

DarkSkies
04-08-2011, 08:59 AM
^^I took the liberty of copying this from the NJ fishing reports. It's of such magnitide I thought it merited its own thread.
Discuss......:wheeeee:

skinner
04-08-2011, 12:34 PM
Surely you are joking with this, trick question?

bababooey
04-08-2011, 01:00 PM
Surely you are joking


Shirley you can't be serious! :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA


Wouldn't that material be covered at a surf sharpie seminar, isn't that what they call those winter gatherings you surf freaks go to?:kooky: :ROFLMAO

cowherder
04-08-2011, 01:20 PM
Ha ha loved that movie bababooey, classic!
An ebb tide is a variation of a red tide, mutated strain to be found in NJ and NY toxic waters.:d

surfstix1963
04-08-2011, 06:47 PM
If you go to the nearest inlet and jump in and you drift to the ocean you have found the ebb tide :huh::huh::huh:

bababooey
04-08-2011, 08:34 PM
An effect you experience when you are out for the day fishing, drank too much, and it's ebbing down your leg?
13411


I give up, maybe finchaser or dark can set up a seminar to tell us that and other suirf sharpie secrets.:p

storminsteve
04-08-2011, 08:46 PM
Finchaser, I consider you to be one of the great sharpies out there (honestly) so please correct me if I am wrong on this, It's a theory I have developed over the years -

AN ebb tide only happens once every blue moon. It has to be 3 days past the full moon, and the moon has to have just the slightest hint of blue. If it is too white, the ebb will not set up properly and the fish will not know you are looking for them.

How to find it? Go out when you see the moon I described, walk near a river that leads to the sea. When you get to the bay, you might see some unusual things, for example surfstix floating out of his local inlet.:laugh: Continue past surfstix until you hear the bunker slapping at the surface. They will be at the very edge of the ebb tide beginning. Then walk out to the transition where the rocks meet the mud and sand, The king size striped bass will be sitting there waiting to be caught.

But on this night, and this night only, they can't be caught with bait. You can only catch them by putting a milky way bar on the hook, and reeling very slowly. You heard the saying the cows jumped over the moon? Well if you give them a milky way bar they will be jumping all over it, and you will get the fish of a lifetime.

Oh, and one more thing, you will only catch them if you are whistling "Oh Susanna" while you are reeling in.

Try it and let us know how you do, it really works.:thumbsup:

wish4fish
04-09-2011, 11:44 AM
ha ha dudes that is sum funny stuff, lol!

fishinmission78
04-09-2011, 12:22 PM
You guys are all wrong, ebb tides are only found on old episodes of Baywatch.

stripercrazy
04-09-2011, 01:55 PM
Yessir, here you have the tide, ebbing over Donna D'Errico.:heart:

dogfish
04-09-2011, 02:02 PM
Umm, SC, it kinda looks like the incoming tide.:d

crosseyedbass
04-09-2011, 02:10 PM
Dude *** tide are you talking about???
All I saw was lunch!

nitestrikes
04-12-2011, 12:51 AM
You should have asked what a slack tide was, and how do you know there are fish are where you are fishing. More answers to that one than there are seminars.

finchaser
04-12-2011, 08:03 AM
Oh so there more to an ebb besides the song or movie very interesting. So what is a slack tide and and are there fish to be caught or do you need the ebb thing??????????????????????????? At least incoming you know to take cover.

jonthepain
04-12-2011, 07:21 PM
At least incoming you know to take cover.

rofl I knew there was a reason I logged on here today

dogfish
04-14-2011, 02:58 AM
incoming you know to take cover.
INCOMING!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v5jPtXsO9M

DarkSkies
04-15-2011, 07:07 AM
Finchaser, I consider you to be one of the great sharpies out there (honestly) so please correct me if I am wrong on this, It's a theory I have developed over the years -

AN ebb tide only happens once every blue moon. It has to be 3 days past the full moon, and the moon has to have just the slightest hint of blue. If it is too white, the ebb will not set up properly and the fish will not know you are looking for them.

How to find it? Go out when you see the moon I described, walk near a river that leads to the sea. When you get to the bay, you might see some unusual things, for example surfstix floating out of his local inlet.:laugh: Continue past surfstix until you hear the bunker slapping at the surface. They will be at the very edge of the ebb tide beginning. Then walk out to the transition where the rocks meet the mud and sand, The king size striped bass will be sitting there waiting to be caught.

But on this night, and this night only, they can't be caught with bait. You can only catch them by putting a milky way bar on the hook, and reeling very slowly. You heard the saying the cows jumped over the moon? Well if you give them a milky way bar they will be jumping all over it, and you will get the fish of a lifetime.

Oh, and one more thing, you will only catch them if you are whistling "Oh Susanna" while you are reeling in.

Try it and let us know how you do, it really works.:thumbsup:

Steve, I wanted to mention how funny this was, :ROFLMAO effing creative as hell. Great job, you should be a writer. Or at least doing stand up in a comedy club. :clapping: :thumbsup: Thanks for the laughs. :HappyWave:

finchaser
04-15-2011, 08:05 AM
Steve, I wanted to mention how funny this was, :ROFLMAO effing creative as hell. Great job, you should be a writer. Or at least doing stand up in a comedy club. :clapping: :thumbsup: Thanks for the laughs. :HappyWave:

That wasn't true

storminsteve
04-15-2011, 05:37 PM
Are you going to rain on my parade?:beatin:
(Cmon finchaser, I'm looking to get some mileage out of this, maybe a fishing trip with dark, a tour of the swan spots, some roasted plovers and seals, and all the bread crumbs I can carry.) Don't blow my chances here, big guy. Please.:kooky: :laugh:

finchaser
04-16-2011, 12:26 AM
Are you going to rain on my parade?:beatin:
(Cmon finchaser, I'm looking to get some mileage out of this, maybe a fishing trip with dark, a tour of the swan spots, some roasted plovers and seals, and all the bread crumbs I can carry.) Don't blow my chances here, big guy. Please.:kooky: :laugh:


you should be entitled to pick one or at least be angler of the month:clapping::clapping::clapping::)

rockhopper
04-16-2011, 09:43 PM
So what is a slack tide and and are there fish to be caught or do you need the ebb thing??????????????????????????? .

You guys are all amateurs. Slack tide is when all the big fish move around. There is no reason to fish any other tide. Only fish the slack and your name will be in record books everywhere. Just ask Crazy Alberto!:kooky: ;)

baitstealer
09-30-2013, 11:58 AM
funny thread lol!

cowherder
01-01-2015, 03:26 PM
you should be entitled to pick one or at least be angler of the month:clapping::clapping::clapping::)

Crazy stuff.

hookset
02-06-2015, 09:14 AM
Roasted plovers and seals lol. bump for the funny.:thumbsup:

surfstix1963
02-15-2015, 11:28 AM
Ebb tide:The period between high tide and the next low tide in which the sea is receding
Flood tide:The incoming or rising tide,occurring between the time when the tide is lowest and the time when the following tide is highest.
Slack tide:Before any turn of the tide,there is a period of slack water.
Neap Tides: occur when the sun, earth, and moon form a right angle and the gravitational pull of the sun counteracts the pull of the moon.

Currents are another story.I think we discussed that already.

cowherder
02-15-2015, 12:18 PM
Neap Tides: occur when the sun, earth, and moon form a right angle and the gravitational pull of the sun counteracts the pull of the moon.





Fascinating. In all years I been fishing don't think I ever saw that one mentioned. Guessing by the way you worded it that that tide would not be that strong because of the conflict of the pulling action. Am I right or wrong on this?

surfstix1963
02-16-2015, 06:43 AM
It is still a moderate tide, but the tidal levels are not as high and low as those of a full or new moon tide when the sun moon and earth are in alignment.

surferman
03-05-2015, 10:48 AM
This is a great read for a snow day. Crazy and informative at the same time. Good stuff! I too had no idea what a neap tide was.