What is an ebb tide and how do you find one??

[finchaser]

what's an ebb and how do you find one?????????????????????

[DarkSkies]

^^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]

Surely you are joking with this, trick question?

[bababooey]

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]

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]

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]

An effect you experience when you are out for the day fishing, drank too much, and it's ebbing down your leg?
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I give up, maybe finchaser or dark can set up a seminar to tell us that and other suirf sharpie secrets.:p

[storminsteve]

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]

ha ha dudes that is sum funny stuff, lol!

[fishinmission78]

You guys are all wrong, ebb tides are only found on old episodes of Baywatch.

[stripercrazy]

Yessir, here you have the tide, ebbing over Donna D'Errico.:heart:

[dogfish]

Umm, SC, it kinda looks like the incoming tide.:d

[crosseyedbass]

Dude *** tide are you talking about???
All I saw was lunch!

[nitestrikes]

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]

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]

At least incoming you know to take cover.

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

[dogfish]

incoming you know to take cover.
INCOMING!!!!

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

[DarkSkies]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

funny thread lol!

[cowherder]

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

Crazy stuff.

[hookset]

Roasted plovers and seals lol. bump for the funny.:thumbsup:

[surfstix1963]

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]

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]

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]

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.