What is the connections between The Moon and Fishing?
iNinja asked:
Last night, my bro and I went fishing and it was full moon. The tides were quite and the fishs aren’t biting? So it was a total wasted of good 2 hours.
Any one know what sup with the moon/fish together?
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Last night, my bro and I went fishing and it was full moon. The tides were quite and the fishs aren’t biting? So it was a total wasted of good 2 hours.
Any one know what sup with the moon/fish together?
October 14th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I get this kinda stuff confused, the only thing I know I’m sure of is what the moon and fishing have in common are tides. That’s all I can think of.
Something about the moon’s gravitational pull on the earth or something, I dunno. Grand Master Basser
October 17th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Your question should be whats the relation between the moon and tides, not fishing, but since fishing is related to tides but more so currents i guess its relevant.
A full and new moon creates dramatic tides, higher high tides and lower low tides than normal. Its called fishing for a reason, its not called catching. Ya just had a bad night BeachBum818
October 18th, 2009 at 9:23 am
tides bro. the moons gravitational pull brings the movable part os earth (water) closer to itself. the closer the moon the bigger the tide; the bigger the tide the more fish activity and more eating fish! tobias
October 21st, 2009 at 12:41 am
I live in SE Alaska where we have large tidal fluctuations during certain times of the year. I noticed that some types of fish will follow a high tide as they head up rivers to spawn and will mill around the bay at low tide until the next high tide. So fishing a river near salt water for salmon is more productive at high tide than low tide. And fishing by boat at the rivers mouth is more productive with an incoming and high tide.
Fishing for halibut here is better at slack tide, because there is less current. Fast currants make it difficult to keep your bait on the bottom.
Here is a link about how tides affect fishing; beedsarefunak
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 am
Unfortunately it’s not so simple, otherwise we would all be catching limits every time. Yes gravitational pull and tides are one factor but a more obvious consideration is visibility. Fish tend to feed much more voraciously at night during the full moon. But even this is simplification. The weather, the currents, all these factors intertwine to create what anglers call the “conditions”. H R