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Topic subjectRE: Moon Phase vs. Biting Fish
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4784, RE: Moon Phase vs. Biting Fish
Posted by SharkGirl, Mon Feb-11-02 06:54 AM
I'm going to have to disagree with Brian. As a matter of fact, fish bite a lote better the day before, on, and after the full moon. This is because the tidal changes are at their biggest during these days. When there is a full moon, the gravitational pull from the moon causes the tidal change to be at their maximum in the whole month. The fish love the big tidal change and come to the shallower water to feed. We may have mixed you up a little more. But just to let you know, I fish every full moon (I wait for this day all month as a matter of fact) and I do get more fish. Last full moon, actually, the day after the full moon, I caught 8 bat rays, 7 thornbacks, 2 leopard sharks, and a halibut. That was last months full moon. I fish about 3 nights a week (I'm a night fisher for sharks & rays) and that has got to be my best night fishin. I usually get about 3-5 rays and a thornback here and there, but that night, there were just hundreds of fish out there. Everyone around me fishin for other fish caught many too. I don't know what to say about the day fishin, but I believe it is the same thing.