Current Tides for Gulf Shores & Orange Beach, AL

Tides on the Alabama coast are very different than tides around the rest of the planet. Just about every where else you go to fish you will find two high tides and two low tides. On the Alabama Gulf Coast you will only find one high tide and one low tide. The reason for this is not certain. Go a few miles east to Florida or a few miles west to Mississippi and you find two tides. The presence of the Mobile Bay could eliminate one rise and one fall, but no one has ever proven it.

To catch the most fish on the tides, find your low tide and your high tide (high and low points on the red line. Each day begins at 12:00 am and ends at 11:59 pm. Decide which tide you'll fish, there will be a morning and afternoon tide, and fish 2 hours before the change until 2 hours after.

Some locales will fish low tides better than high tides and vice versa. If you are planning to ease your boat up to an oyster bar for reds, position yourself on the falling side of the bar and let the bait fish and the game fish come to you. You need to be there during the fall so you don't ground your boat and the fish come to you.

Lots of pier fishing is better on a rising high tide because the bait is coming to you over increasingly deepening water.

Once again, the best way to catch them is just get out there and fish.

Alabama Coastal Tides

Ocean and coastal tides greatly affect the way predatory fish and bait fish behave. Consider the tides like a party. The most action occurs when everyone is moving around checking out different locales. When the tides are moving the most the fishing is most likely to be the best. If you are planning your monthly fishing trip try to plan a time during the most tidal movement. The greater the rise and fall of the red line above means a greater rise and fall between tides.

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