Slack tide at the Rip/heads

[Kestrel]

Thanks for the responses. To answer a couple of questions:

My boat is a 30 footer and I've been through the heads few times.

I just wanted to know approximately how long the slack tide period is I've been told 30 minutes, an hour, two hours.

cheers

Kestrel

[fishnut]

Around 30mins

[Wolly Bugger]

Thanks for the responses. To answer a couple of questions:

My boat is a 30 footer and I've been through the heads few times.

I just wanted to know approximately how long the slack tide period is I've been told 30 minutes, an hour, two hours.

cheers

Kestrel

My experience in fishing the heads/rip, is that there is not much of a pause when the tidal stream/current switches direction. It seems like one minute
we are drifting into the bay and the next drifting out of the bay.

[phil1818]

Why would you bother trying to pick slack water?? Would of thought wind/swell would be a bit more important then the tidal flow

[piscateur]

Why would you bother trying to pick slack water?? Would of thought wind/swell would be a bit more important then the tidal flow

I think we all can pretty much assume that not many will go to the heads in **** wind and swell conditions.

[purple5ive]

Why would you bother trying to pick slack water?? Would of thought wind/swell would be a bit more important then the tidal flow

have you actually fished there before??
if you have i dont think you would be asking this question...

[phil1818]

Why would you bother trying to pick slack water?? Would of thought wind/swell would be a bit more important then the tidal flow

have you actually fished there before??
if you have i dont think you would be asking this question...

Fished there plenty of times mate do it out of a 5.5m bowrider and doesn’t seem to make a big difference

[phil1818]

Why would you bother trying to pick slack water?? Would of thought wind/swell would be a bit more important then the tidal flow

have you actually fished there before??
if you have i dont think you would be asking this question...

He’s also talking about driving through the heads not sitting in the middle of them fishing ya peanut

[purple5ive]

Why would you bother trying to pick slack water?? Would of thought wind/swell would be a bit more important then the tidal flow

have you actually fished there before??
if you have i dont think you would be asking this question...

He’s also talking about driving through the heads not sitting in the middle of them fishing ya peanut

He is just wanting safe passage with slack tides. Many people choose the slack tide to also fish it for obvious reasons you peanut...
And you must be smoking some high quality **** to not notice much difference in tides at the tip. But I'll keep my mouth shut now because I've only fished it a handful of times..

[frozenpod]

Thanks for the responses. To answer a couple of questions:

My boat is a 30 footer and I've been through the heads few times.

I just wanted to know approximately how long the slack tide period is I've been told 30 minutes, an hour, two hours.

cheers

Kestrel

Few minutes at most for slack tide but the tide is slow for about 30 minutes.

Whilst a good idea to pass on slack tide or incoming tide the dangers of the RIP are over hyped.