This is a sweeping statement but improving your sea fishing is all about making small changes to improve your chance of catch that 30lb Cod or 10 lb Bass.
This simple tip can be used inshore and when deep sea fishing. Its as easy as to start using round torpedo shaped sinkers when using lures.
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A reader recently asked “I have heard the term up-tiding when reading articles in magazines and listening to anglers but what does it really mean”
The world of sea fishing has many facets. The common ones being, beach casting, spinning, wreck fishing and up-tiding. Most of these could be broken down into sub-categories, for example spinning could be dead baiting, plugging or gilling. Sea fishing has formed a huge collection of techniques each with it own name depending on where in the world you are fishing and how you are fishing.
The species being targeted, the skill you are perfecting, the platform you are using (shore/boat) and the environment you are targeting them in, all require you to use differing techniques. The term up-tiding is relevant to shallow water boat fishing (Generally 50 feet deep or less).
Further to my post on Up-tiding, I was really delighted to get some feedback regarding Up-tiding in the UK , as below.
This, in my opinion is the beauty of this kind of site. People can add to posts and improve the quality of the information held here at the fishing blog.
The reply below was posted from A Sea Angler’s Noted Book
I Agree with most of what you say but, as a born and bred uptider from the East Coast, I think you missed one very important point about uptiding - it gives the angler the ability to use lighter, more sporting tackle than could be otherwise used. As long as the water isn’t too deep you can generally use 8 oz of lead where a downtider would need 1 lb or more - the emphasis with this technique is definately on presenting a bait hard on the bottom for species such as Cod and Ray. Once you hit depths of 50 - 60 foot of water though uptiding becomes very difficult.
