Wexford tides

I was going to head down to Wexford tomorrow (Saturday) to plug for Bass, but the high tide is 1.3 metres. Can someone tell me if the tides are normally this low and if it will have any adverse effect on the fishing.

Thanks

Lava

Size isn't everything. :D On the North Wexford coast, a 1m H-L range is a reasonable tide. We have neaps where there there is a 10cm H-L range. The tides always seem nutty around here to people used to bigger ranges. To answer your question, you have a good chance of getting into a bass on a tide like that.

Best of luck.

btw, someone might correct me on this, but I think it's the Arklow bank that causes the smaller tides between Arklow and Wexford.

Thanks Teacher :wink: . That clears that up.

Regards,
Lava

I was going to head down to Wexford tomorrow (Saturday) to plug for Bass, but the high tide is 1.3 metres. Can someone tell me if the tides are normally this low and if it will have any adverse effect on the fishing.

Thanks

Lava

apparently thats a high tide....

was in wexford a few weeks back and the tide was a measly 10cm difference between high and low.
that was a neap tide...

apparently the east coast doesnt have great diffences in the tides, unlikethe west coast where a 1.3m would be a low tide and 5.2m would be a good spring tide...

Hi

The tides in the SE are always small owing to the meeting of the tides from the Irish Sea on the way out and the Atlantic on the way in or vice versa. Basically it is a geographic phenomenon and has its own name - some knowledgeable person can remind me - there is never a big low or a big high tide in the area. As a consequence the other conditions have a bigger impact on fish feeding habits, e.g. daylight, storms, etc.

FWIW...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A408241

In some places, resonance patterns are set up between incoming and outgoing tides. This can result in places known as amphidromes where there is no variation at all in water levels, even though the sea all around is moving up and down. There is one such amphidrome off the East coast of Wexford, Ireland. Another is found in the Persian Gulf, next to Saudi Arabia.