Should I go fishing? Conflicted on this one,

[Mr. Aquarium]

There ya go buddy, 

[mcipinkie]

Stay at home.  Get on the computer and make all the posts you can.  FB, Instagram, SnapChat and what ever else.
 

Stay off the water.  Anyone that consults an app to decide whether or not to go fishing shouldn't go.

[.ghoti.]

My “app” says no fish will be biting in my living room. 

[schplurg]

Unless there are lightning bolts striking the ground all around you, the answer is always yes, you should go fishing.

 

Apps? We're talking about fishing, right?  

[pdxfisher]

I never pass up a chance to fish unless it is dangerous to be out.

 

One of my most memorable days in PA was in horrible post-frontal conditions on a small lake. By all accounts I should have not caught a thing. Instead I lucked upon some kind of wood that was jammed into and inside bend of a massive hydrilla bed. I caught about a dozen bass including 4 over 4lbs fishing that one little spot. There was a lot of luck involved in stumbling on it but no amount of luck gets me a bite at home!

 

I did not get a bite anywhere else that day but there were enough in that spot that if I made repeated casts with Carolina rig with 6" finesse worm I would get a bite every now and again. 

 

On the way to the lake I was thinking I would be lucky if I got a bite. You just can't ever tell.

[Bankc]

I've found those apps are good for telling you what time you want to be on the water.  But not very good for telling you what day.  In other words, I've noticed that while I will catch fish at any time during the day, I do seem to catch more during the major and minor feeding periods.  It could be just a coincidence or confirmation bias though.  It's not like there's a huge difference in catch rate between a feeding period and a non feeding period.  But I'd say it ups my odds maybe 10%.  It's enough that I believe there's something to it, but not enough to care much about it.  About the only thing it changes is if I was planning on hitting the water at 6:00 a.m. and a major feeding cycle starts at 5:30 a.m., I might get there a half hour earlier.  Or if one doesn't start until 8:00 a.m., I might not stress out if something pops up that puts a small delay in my arrival time. 

 

As for the day stuff.  It's useless.  I've never noticed any difference between an "Epic" day or a "Poor" day, or anything in between.  The weather will tell you a lot more about how the fish are going to bite on any given day than the position of the sun and moon.