Would year-round daylight savings affect your fishing??

[CrashVector]

1 minute ago, Bird said:

Only compaint I have is the " fall back " right in the middle of deer season every year.

Now I have to get up an hour earlier to make stand before daylight.

 

I say just leave it be.

 

That was my dad's complaint too.

 

Doesn't really affect my fishing much tho.  I just don't like losing an hour of sleep when I only get 4-5 hours between two 16 hour shifts.

[Tennessee Boy]

I’m gonna try switching to Greenwich Mean Time to see if it helps my fishing.  I’ll let you know how it goes.  ?

[cyclops2]

Are the fish resetting their clocks ?        ?

[Bird]

4 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

Are the fish resetting their clocks ?        ?

They must not.

Just the other morning I sat on the water 1 hr before they started biting.

[Dogface]

11 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

Are the fish resetting their clocks ?        ?

 

I doubt it. ☺️

 

Pennsylvania has a bill in the legislature now to change the state to DST all year long. 

[cyclops2]

You are in the wrong Time Zone.     ?

 

It is my weakest weekend of the year.       ?

[king fisher]

Bass do not care what time it is, but my wife does.  

[WRB]

It’s about time?

Tom

[throttleplate]

yes, i like to fish till 9:30 pm and still be able so see my surroundings.

[Dogface]

2 hours ago, throttleplate said:

yes, i like to fish till 9:30 pm and still be able so see my surroundings.

 

When I'm fishing northern Quebec or Ontario in July or August it says light enough at 9:30PM to "still be able so see my surroundings." Not so much here in PA. 

 

Is it the same for ND? They look about the same latitude.  

 

 

[Mr. Aquarium]

I’d fish a lot more after work! I hate those 4 pm sunsets 

[MN Fisher]

13 minutes ago, Dogface said:

 

When I'm fishing northern Quebec or Ontario in July or August it says light enough at 9:30PM to "still be able so see my surroundings." Not so much here in PA. 

 

Is it the same for ND? They look about the same latitude.  

 

 

Probably - here in the Minneapolis area around the Summer Solstice civil twilight ends around 9:40 pm. Even the end of July, it's still around 9:15

 

Course the other side of the Solstice - it's around May 19 when twilight ends around 9:15

 

This year - May 8 through August 9, twilight ends 9pm or later.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Nope! I'll still fish every chance I get.... business as usual. 

[throttleplate]

1 hour ago, Dogface said:

 

When I'm fishing northern Quebec or Ontario in July or August it says light enough at 9:30PM to "still be able so see my surroundings." Not so much here in PA. 

 

Is it the same for ND? They look about the same latitude.  

 

 

may through june i can still see at 9:30 to 10:00 after that 9:pm then 8pm....I used to live in Levittown PA from 1985 till 1991.

[MN Fisher]

1 minute ago, throttleplate said:

used to live in Levittown PA from 1985 till 1991.

Small world

 

I lived in Levittown in the early 60s.

 

You stalking me, bro?

[throttleplate]

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

Small world

 

I lived in Levittown in the early 60s.

 

You stalking me, bro?

 

i lived at 48 appletree drive. When i got out of the service in 1985 i went home to north dakota, spent a week there and moved to Hopkins minn and stayed at my sisters house.

 

The first week there in february we had a huge blizzard and the phone rang, no cell phones yet.

It was my military friend from levittown telling me how he was just out riding his motorcycle.

I packed all my clothes into my seabag and threw it and 2 cruise boxes into the trunk of my 1966 ford galaxie 500 and drove nonstop to levittown. Took me 26 hours.

[Dogface]

37 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

may through june i can still see at 9:30 to 10:00 after that 9:pm then 8pm....I used to live in Levittown PA from 1985 till 1991.

 

My son is in Levittown. I'm 15 minutes south. 

[Columbia Craw]

The only good thing about DST is it keeps me from forgetting how to set my watch.

[throttleplate]

11 hours ago, Dogface said:

 

My son is in Levittown. I'm 15 minutes south. 

I had a speedboat and joined the Penn Warner Club in Morrisville so i could fish and water ski.

Its a man made lake owned by waste management and as you may know its right across from the huge waste management dump.

I kept my boat moored in the bay and instead of using the clubs dingy to get to it i would just swim out to it.

I always had to clean chicken bones off the deck because of the dump the seagulls would pick up scraps of human food, usually chicken and fly over and sit on my enclosed bow and eat.

Some days the place would really smell bad depending on wind direction from the dump.

[fin]

I fish in a State park that opens at 7:00 AM year-round. Part of the year, like right now, that’s great, it means they open almost an hour before sunrise, but by the middle of June, the sun is up an hour before they open, which drives me crazy.

 

When DST is made year-round, that will mean the park would open almost two hours before sunrise in January if they stick to the same opening time. I’m thinking they’ll change the opening time, and it scares me to think what they might do. They may change it to opening at “sunrise”, or something like that. They now close at “sundown”, which I hate, because it’s fuzzy, not clear. To the fisherman, that means pitch dark, to the park personnel, that means when the sun gets near the horizon. Or they might change it to 8:00 year-round. Whatever they do, it will likely be whatever is best for their benefit, not the benefit of all the people that visit the park.

 

So it’s unlikely that the change can possibly benefit my fishing.

[Dogface]

6 hours ago, throttleplate said:

I had a speedboat and joined the Penn Warner Club in Morrisville so i could fish and water ski.

Its a man made lake owned by waste management and as you may know its right across from the huge waste management dump.

 

 

 I have been a member since 1963. I know it well. BTW the chicken bones are still building up.

 

BTW it still stinks depending on how the wind blows.

[throttleplate]

1 hour ago, Dogface said:

 

 I have been a member since 1963. I know it well. BTW the chicken bones are still building up.

 

BTW it still stinks depending on how the wind blows.

Rumour was out in 1987 that the dump liner to stop seepage was torn and the dump was leaking into the lake and members were freaking out.

Some members wouldnt swim in it or eat the fish.

[Dogface]

3 hours ago, throttleplate said:

Rumour was out in 1987 that the dump liner to stop seepage was torn and the dump was leaking into the lake and members were freaking out.

Some members wouldnt swim in it or eat the fish.

 

I remember the rumors. I have never seen anything to make me believe the liner was leaking. The water is clear and no issues with the fish. 

 

Right now swimming is prohibited but it is for safety reasons not pollution but people do swim. 

 

They ask everyone to return game fish like bass and pike but to take pan fish and sneakheads. I have eaten sneakhead from Manor and it was good. It tasted very much like walleye.

 

 

[RDB]

If I means more light in the morning then it will improve my mood.  My partner can’t back a trailer for #%!#.

[flyfisher]

On 3/19/2022 at 2:19 AM, T-Billy said:

The best bite during the cold water seasons is in the afternoon. An extra hour of light in the evening will prolong that afternoon bite.

Changing the clock to read a different time will have zero impact on the amount of daylight.  It will only impact what time we see on a clock at a given point in a day.

On 3/19/2022 at 11:29 PM, throttleplate said:

 

i lived at 48 appletree drive. When i got out of the service in 1985 i went home to north dakota, spent a week there and moved to Hopkins minn and stayed at my sisters house.

 

The first week there in february we had a huge blizzard and the phone rang, no cell phones yet.

It was my military friend from levittown telling me how he was just out riding his motorcycle.

I packed all my clothes into my seabag and threw it and 2 cruise boxes into the trunk of my 1966 ford galaxie 500 and drove nonstop to levittown. Took me 26 hours.

i grew up in Levittown....graduated in 94 though.  Lived in Holly Hill and my parents still do, same house they bought back in the 70's that now has more addition than original house.