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"Tide Clocks for Fishing, surfing, beachcombing and to know when to evacuate before high tide with an approaching hurricane or nor'easter.  Sea Level is Rising! 

Hurricane Francis 2004; Picture Compliments of NOAA

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Types of Tides
Semi-diurnal Tide:  A tide with one high water and one low water half day.  East Coast tides, for eample, are semi-diurnal, with two high tides and two low tides in 25 hour period. Tidal clocks have a separate gear or 25 hour clock for the tide indicator on our clocks.
Neap Tide:   A tide of decreased range that occurs twice a month, when the moon is in it's first and last quarters, and the sun and moon are at right angles to each other relative to the Earth.
Spring Tide:  A tide of increased range in the tides of high and low that occur once per month, when the sun and moon's gravitational pull are the greatest:  Full Moon.

Tide Clocks and fishing in Delaware

The best times to fish are just before and just after the high and low tides. There is something about the changing of the tides and fish behavior.  For instance, sea trout seem to feed voraciously for about 20 minutes at the high and at the low tide changes.  Rockfish or stripers like very turbulent water, so cast your lure or live eel into the eddy’s and you’ll better your chance of catching one.  Be sure not to eat more than one 8 ounce fillet per year since the Delaware Department of Public Health has warned that Rockfish contain PCB’s which causes cancer.  Best to have the fun of catching the rockfish and throwing them back in.  The rockfish are contaminated in the upper reaches of the Delaware Bay by feeding on bottom organisms and other sea life that have been contaminated. Rockfish migrate in and out of the Delaware Bay.  The toxins move up the food chain and you’re next if you eat it.  Read more....

Why tide clocks are useful when
Beachcombing and Metal Detecting the Delaware Beaches.

     When your tide clock reads one hour to low tide or one hour to high tide, these are the best times to go beachcombing.  A lot of people think that the best time to go beachcombing is at low tide.  Well, what I tell people is if you go at low tide, you’ll be the last one there to find what has washed up at high tide!  Of course you can metal detect and beachcomb at the same time.

     If you are beachcombing for sea shells, beach glass, shipwreck artifacts or just want to see what has washed ashore, be at the beach at least one hour before the high tide.  This way you will see what has already washed ashore and see what else the waves are bringing in.  If there is no surf, per se, then not much will be washing ashore.  When the winds are 20 knots plus, blowing from the northeast, east or southeast, there should be debris washing onto the beach.  If there is a two to three day nor’easter, then get ready to bring a bucket because there will be more than you can carry.  Read more...

Why you need a tide clock to go surfing!

     Most surfers know that you just don’t go surfing anytime unless you just want to get some exercise.  Most areas in the world where there are good surfing areas, have certain times of the tides when the waves break the best.  Winds also play a role in the quality of the wave you’ll be riding.  Here are a few tips to follow for the gremmies out there.

     Play some Beach Boys music while you are reading this to get you in the mood or some Marley.   When you hit the beach, sit down and watch the surf for about 20 minutes.  Take mental note of where the peaks are and if they are rights or lefts.  Are there a bunch of guys out there, too crowded, then check down the beach a little further.  Most  places where the waves break good enough to surf don’t break good at high tide.  So, here you are at the beach and the waves are breaking on the shore.  You didn’t check the tide clock. It’s high tide! You’ve wasted your time and gas money for nothing.

     In the 1960’s, a friend and myself used to leave the Baltimore area about 4am, drive 150 miles to the Indian River Inlet in Delaware, check out the surf and if there was anything surfable, we would go right back home.  Now all you have to do is go to www.atlanticbreezes.com  where you can get the weather and links to surf conditions.   Read more ....

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