Solunar fishing times?
 

What do you think about Solunar fishing times, do they work or not? I have often thought about giving them a try, but have never been able to put my fishing on a schedule. I fish when I have the time or the mod strikes me. I have never compared them with the times that I have had a good day or hour. So should I be looking into this or not?

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The wife and kids tell me when it's a good time to go fishing.

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Long ago I lived on the St Mary's river between Michigan and Ontario. The anglers up there swore by them especially for walleyes.

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Check em out. Uncanny accuracy except when weather screws things up. I have followed 'em in the past.

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Yeah I know that is all too true.

Seriously, IMO these apply more to the salt and extremely large lakes

Have fished lots of full moon, half moon, no moon, clouds, no clouds etc with equal success in the sweet water. AND my OP is also like my fishing hole...Everyone has one, and they all produce

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When I used to pay attention years ago I found the smallmouths were especially tuned into it.

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Never used them, but also interested in what people have to say about them.

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I believe the old saying. "When the moon high, fishing is nigh." I've had so many horrible fishing days both fresh and saltwater during a full moon. Can't remember any outstanding good ones the past fifty-five years. Has to be something to it.

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Thru the years it's uncanny the coincidence of feeding times and what the book said should be the feeding times,we use to try and plan trips around the times of ideal feeding periods.

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I have log books going back as far as 1992, priceless !!

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Flat Creek: I followed the solunar tables for more years than I can remember. I've seen their predictions be right on the money, also saw then be pretty accurate maybe an hour off..Also so them totally inacurate. But in their defense, I enjoyed following them for the price, it gave me something to study,,And in closing when they were on an I was their, they paid for themselves 10 times over. By the way for you full moon haters,(which I also happen to be one) mid day is the time to be there..Personally I'm and early bird..Tite lines all Slider

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I've used them since the mid sixties! Found them to be very useful in my spring lake fishing forays.
If your on a lake or in the woods during one of these periods , most times you will note a definite pi k up in wildlife activity.
My first big brown taken from a lake in 1965 on a herring , weighed in at 5.5's
Was caught during the middle of one of these mid day periods.
Always used them in lake fishing for over twentyseSons!

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a couple years ago i tracked fish caught vs solunar rating for the day with some statistics formulas in excel and the solunar rating was on the money for june, july, and august. the rest of the year, forget it. (i used the solunar tables on espn.com then)

i still look at it but it doesn't affect my decision to go fishing or not. i use the Time2Fish app for android. it's a nice app with hourly ratings as well as peak periods, and has sunrise/set times and weather forecast.

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Tracking your fishing with soluner times sounds like fun, I wonder if somehow we could do it collectively on the board? It could make for an intersesting project for someone who has expertise to do it.

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Maybe Andy can post it as a sticky?

http://www.in-fisherman.com/solunar-calendar/

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Been following the soluner charts for the last few months and I found them to be right on. Last night they said it was going to be good. Seven hybrids a channel cat two break offs and half dozen other hits all in about three hours. Last fri it said not so good, one small cat and Andy and Wilson ran aground. I have also noticed when the winds from the east they bite the least seems to be true and when I figured it out I was trying to figure out why drifts that went across the same water that produced fish didn't produce some times and it came to me that on drifts that didn't produce I always had a east wind. Anyway I'm going out and paint a four leaf clover on my boat and see how that works, I'll let you all know. In the mean time check this link out.
http://www.usprimetimes.com/zip.html