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ziacatcher · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:24 pm Post subject: A surprise at sbh

According to the tables low tide was supposed to be at 7 this morning. Got there at 7 figuring it is low tide and everything would be coming in and catch the tidal movement. At 7 the tides were way up higher than I thought it would be and the surf was a lot rougher.

Although the brown stuff was on the beach there was no problems with it in the water. Set out my three poles like I normally do and a short while after getting their my pole with the Fishbites shrimp combo got hit and I bring in a slot red. No bait in water at all. Cut up Whiting which was plentiful, and proceeded to catch gafftop, hard heads, and surprisingly Sand trout on the cut whiting. Also caught what I'm assuming was a shark because it grabbed my cut Whiting and headed towards Cancun. Holding on to my rod and it was stripping line like it didn't even knew it was hooked. All the sudden I was down to my backing and then I was able to see my spool under the backing and I thought it's time to grab the pliers off my rod holder and cut my losses. I didn't feel like taking a body surfing trip down to Cozumel. Although there wasn't a lot to be caught it was fun being on a surf. Beautiful weather. As I was leaving the surf at noon the tides were coming in and it was almost one lane of driving up close to the dunes. As CS said in a previous post charts weren't accurate today. High tide is supposed to be at 4 pm. If that's the case it might be to the dunes.

shallowsport · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:09 pm Post subject:

Your adventures never cease to amaze. Thanks for sharing your experience . By the way, which gut was most of the activity in?
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ziacatcher · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:49 pm Post subject:

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:46 pm Post subject:

Zia, have you actually found tides charts to be accurate? Never have seen that, anywhere that I've been. Some times they are close, like 30 minutes one way or another, but that's about it.

I was at Sebastian Inlet a few years ago. The tide was supposed to be coming in when I got there. It was going out. About an 45 minutes later it reversed and flowed in for maybe 30-45 minutes, then swapped again!!! Shocked

Crazy stuff man, and they have a hell of a tide compared with the Texas coast.
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Donnie · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:20 pm Post subject:

Thats the great thing about the surf, you never know. And hooking onto something havana bound, or Cozamel bound - is a feeling like no other out there.

The evening it happened to me, 2 months ago, 3 others reported hooking up on 'a submarine' - all within a couple of miles of where I was.

I picture a shark hanging with his buddies in the second gut - seeing us on shore, hands his beer to his buddies and says, 'watch this'.
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