outgoing tide

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They should also avoid fishing during the outgoing tide, which is when most depredation events occur.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024

Late in the campaign, he continued to be confident and did not sense the outgoing tide.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2016

We make no claim to expertise on the quality of horse manure; however, leaving it for the outgoing tide hardly seems environmentally sound.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2016

We decided to head further north to Kingston, which has always been a fairly good early summer chinook fishery especially on an outgoing tide.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2012

The lamps were being lighted when he came to the Thames Embankment, where he watched for a time the black, sluggish water being sucked out to sea by the outgoing tide.

From Story of Chester Lawrence by Anderson, Nephi