Fishing during major and minor times

Salt water fish bite is more due to current moving.

Freshwater, never really paid attention to it.

I look at it but I don't put any faith in it. My priorities are: wind speed and direction then chance of storms then barometer then I might glance the solunar thing but just as a reference point but it's hit and miss. I need to keep a record since I fish so much and do a little data experiment.

For freshwater especially but all fish to a large extent, barometric pressure is by far the best way to call a bite. A hard falling barometer is the sign of incoming frontal activity, and fish will be active hours before and up to the point of the front passing overhead. On the following high pressure days they are going to be less active. This is especially true in the spring where a couple days of increasing temps can push fish up shallow to spawn, peaking with the morning or afternoon of the front being one of the best trips of the year, to then have a clear and cold next day where you swear there’s not a fish in the lake.

The biggest thing that will affect a morning bite around here is the full moon. If it's a full moon, the shad and striper are hard to locate and catch in the morning because they've been playing tag most of the night. Regardless of any other reading or metric.

During the late summer months, I bass fish the majors and minors. More often that not, I catch at those times. Although I don't claim that's the main reason. Can't catch'em on the couch!

Now that I have an easy to use app, I try to pay attention to it. So far, I see no real patterns in fresh water for crappie. For bass, the days labeled poor, have been pretty poor.

I feel like those are just calculated guesses, based on wind, tide, and all the other factors that go into fishing.

Pics?

Outgoing tide + Full moon + major times = HogZealot is fishing.

I caught more than 15 snook in 1 hour this past winter. I believe in it. No slobs but they were smashing it like no other time I’ve been alive. I was hooking up every other cast at worst.

If you pass by a field full of cattle and they are all laying down resting - no deer and no fish. You see them all get up and start feeding, get ready.

Makes you wonder if we (humans) didn’t become so used to eating at regular intervals, if we would be affected in the same way. Me - my stomach starts rumbling just before meal time like clockwork.