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Fishing according to the moon phases is particular days. One of each phase normally
really easy… if you pay attention! occurs in each month, but it shifts from month
to month because the moon phases and the
I have written many times about fishing months are not perfectly aligned.
the best moon phase, but after talking to some
of you, it seems that you still don’t get it. It’s Let’s choose a calendar month at
really not that difficult, so pay attention: All random, and say that the first half of the
you need is any old calendar for this year that month would include the full moon. In our
has pictures of the moon on it each month. example, the full moon falls on the 10th of the
I don’t use the standard way of finding the month. If I wanted to calculate the best time to
fishing time; I use a much easier method. fish during daylight hours, I would choose the
next day after the full moon, which is the 11th.
Each month on almost any calendar, there are I would then plan to begin fishing at daybreak,
“Full Moon” and “New Moon” markings on and continue fishing for the next 3 hours. The
Almanac by Bob King
Fisherman’s
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