[VFB] Tides Question

[Deb Duran]

I have a question for you VFB'er near a coast.   Byard is still laughing at me for my post on the tides here but he can't tell me what the phenomenon is called when you have a full moon and the tides are at extremes.  It happens only a few times a year.  (I called it a new moon and a full moon...  that is what I understood a friend of mine to say but it can't happen)   Do you know the proper name for it.   It's causing the fishing to improve here lately.  It also has caused some rough currents and a few people to drown so that's the down side to it.   I enjoyed studying the bottom of bay while it was exposed.  Before I started tying flies I never paid as much attention to the changes in the tides or current.   Please help educate me on this if you know about it and what causes it. Deb