How to find out the moon phase

[mattm]

Is there anywhere I can go to find out the moon phase on March 18th?  If anyone wants to do the work for me they can just look and my feelings won't be hurt.

[ROCbass]

http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/index.php?month=3&year=2009&css=moon.css&Submit=Go

I found this site by doing a google search on "moon phase calendar"

[Sam]

Full moon is on March 10th.

You know it is best to fish week before and a day after the full moon.

But who cares?

Just go out and do some fishing for all of us who are freezing our fannies off this winter.  ;D

[Scott C]

I like using this one:

http://www.sunrisesunset.com/usa/

Click your state and then find your town.  Along w\ full, new, and quarters, it will give you sunrise and sunset, and moonrise and moonset times for that location.  

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Nice sites! I have just been going to bassmaster.com/magazine and looking at the Rick Taylors.

[SirSnookalot]

put your own zip code

http://www.solunarforecast.com/solunarcalendar.aspx

[Btech]

May be a newby question but how does the moon phaze DIRECTLY affect fishing? I know its somthig to do with tieds and such but does it make a huge diff on bass fishing?

[WRB]

Lunar affects on all living plants and animals is a topic of great debate and discussion, several books have been written on this topic.

Most bass fishermen will agree that the full moon affects the spawning period.

IMO lunar cycles have a major affect on bass activity year around; with the 3 days before and after both the new and full moon periods being good for bass fishing, depending on the seansonal period. Keep in mind any day on the water is a good day, some days are better than others.

WRB

[Btech]

So ... My Callander says its gona be a full moon is it right or should i check some websites?

I guess what im asking is : Is my Callander with moonphazes all ill need to know ?

[SirSnookalot]

does the moon phaze DIRECTLY affect fishing?

So they say.  Somedays those charts are right on the money and other days they aren't even close.

Just go fishin and have fun.

"Que Sera, Sera  

[Btech]

Ill stick with that - A Bad Days Fishin' is Better than a Good Days Work Anyhow!

[fishfordollars]

If you have a GPS(Most any kind) it should have a sun/moon calculator built in it.

[Catt]

Moon phases are but one consideration in this art of bass angling

[Team_Dougherty]

I just look at my watch

http://www.casio.com/products/Timepiece/Sports/PAS400B-5V/

[basser89]

I just look at my watch

http://www.casio.com/products/Timepiece/Sports/PAS400B-5V/

X2! I love my watch!  ;D

[Btech]

So a watch is the easiest way to tell i guess

[basser89]

So a watch is the easiest way to tell i guess

Btech,

The cool thing about the Casio that I have is you actually enter your latitude and longitude (or the spot you're planning on fishing) to get the most accurate number you can. Once you have it entered, a couple clicks of a button and you can look ahead to see where the moon phase will be whenever in the future. Pretty cool little feature (IMO).

[rorschach]

For those of you with iphones there is a great moon phase application.

[newfish]

Lunar affects on all living plants and animals is a topic of great debate and discussion, several books have been written on this topic.

Most bass fishermen will agree that the full moon affects the spawning period.

IMO lunar cycles have a major affect on bass activity year around; with the 3 days before and after both the new and full moon periods being good for bass fishing, depending on the seansonal period. Keep in mind any day on the water is a good day, some days are better than others.

WRB

cool information!!! ;D

[ejtaylor822]

May be a newby question but how does the moon phaze DIRECTLY affect fishing? I know its somthig to do with tieds and such but does it make a huge diff on bass fishing?

Good information provided already, but I read something a while back that made a lot of sense - too me anyway - in regards to the full moon.  

That was that during a full moon, there is (obviously) more light.  So nocturnal creatures get more active as they can see better during this period - leading up to the full moon and after.  This leads to more things - insects, birds, rodents, etc. - falling into and going into the water more often.  

Being that there is more light on the surface, bass and other predatory fish, can make out images quicker and easier and are more likely to attack than just on sound alonse.  With more activity on the surface, they go on a feeding frenzy and get use to the heightened activity and feed much more aggressively.

Eddie

[rickster]

That makes perfect sense to me Eddie! Thanks for that post  

[Glenn]

What, nobody thinks it can be found here?

http://www.bassresource.com/bassfishing/best-fishing-times.html

Sheesh!  

[Paul Roberts]

Anybody know a good website to learn about and talk about bass fishing?? :

[J Francho]

I'll be honest, the only times I check is when I'm night fishing, and after a particularly good day.  I have never made any correlation, though I think I'd really need a much bigger dataset.  I have a friend that has more than 5 years of fishing logs stored in a database, with over a dozen fields tracked FOR EVERY FISH HE'S CAUGHT!  It wouldn't be too hard to build a report that would overlay moon phase with this data.  Now, if I could only get at the data