Hello all. I'm looking for advice on fishing high tide in tidal rivers. I do very well during low tide but truly struggle finding fish during high tide. I posed this question a while back and only received two replies (thanks Dan). Looking for as much info as I can on the subject. Thanks.

With respect to inshore fishing (as opposed to offshore tidal influences), the best of the incoming tide is roughly

from 1½ hours before high water until 1½ hours after high water (high water needs to be calculated for your location).

Fishing during the flood tide is generally more difficult than fishing around low water. Near the top of the tide,

fish will be scattered on the flats, pretty much like fishing a lake with an unusually high pool-level.

Although they're scattered on the flats, fish tend to aggregate on flooded shellbeds and grassbeds (sand holes therein).

About 1½ hours after high water (depending on your location), the tide will go slack and the bite will normally fizzle.

Due to flow momentum, fishing the ebb tide (outgoing water) is a little different.

We usually focus on the time-slot from about 2 hours before low tide to about 1 hour after low water.

Slack tide does not occur at low water, but depending on your location, roughly an hour later.

Low water provides much easier fishing than flood tide, because the fish are concentrated, and tend to gather

at bottlenecks, creek mouths and straits which funnel the forage that's flushed off the flats.

Roger

where you're fishing right there at high is great for a walk the dog type lure or a frog since you can get way in that slop. Were you out today right before dusk? I think we saw you while heading into the creek on the black/gray express

Yea, I was out. I think I was the only boat out there. How did you do?

we did ok, we went an fished the spoils area by the bridge, that place was thick, full of big fish according to the garmin.Only able to pull 3 out though, but I would deff like to go back there soon. It looks like an awesome place to fish. lots of submerged structure everywhere