Everybody seems to have a different opinion on what tide is best from the beach. One buddy insists it's the high slack, another friend likes mid-tide (ebb or flow) when the current is really running fast, and I kinda prefer extreme low slack when you can wade way out and reach the drop-offs easiset. But the truth may be that the tide hardly matters at all -- we have caught em at all tides and it's more a matter of being there when the schools swim by.