the solunar table...i fish any time i can...but is there any accuracy to it?

Yes it can be very accurate

Do the tables pertain to fishing in small ponds, also?

Very accurate. I will say you can still have good periods of time when they show “poor”. For example early morning. Usually a decent to good bite as sun is starting to peek up. Ends quickly on a “poor” day. Definitely exceptions to “poor”.

a few years ago I started using the hunt fish function on my garmen GPS I was really surprised that it was obviously accurate. Now I use it often. Grab a few baits ride to the landing sit in a chair and tight line catfish fun relaxing way to get out of the old lady's hair. Most of the time it was sit for a couple hours nary a bite. Adding the gps info leave home half or before the "Best" Time and always come hoe with supper. Very obvious improvement.

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I don't doubt it offers an improvement over just randomly going, but it's definitely a soft science. The various calendars don't even always agree on what the "best" time is, so there are obviously some assumptions that go into the algorithms. I use them, I'm just not terribly surprised when my results don't match the predictions.

And it may very well be that some species are more predictable than others. I pretty much target bass and redfish exclusively so I'm not drawing from a broad experience.