01-10-2004, 12:31 AM
Over 56 years of fishing, there's no question that I've experienced two to three times each day when I got hits on almost every cast. These periods would last from 15 minutes to as long as an hour. In between those periods, even though I'd beat the stream without mercy, the hits were significantly less with 10 to 30 casts between. Over the last 30 or so years, I started to compare the "hot" periods with the solarlunar charts and found a significant correlation between the two.
The correlation, of course, isn't there all the time. I'm sure atmospheric pressures, clouds at night during otherwise bright moons, high flows, low flows, and other factors which aren't compensated for in the solarlunar charts interfere, but over all those years, I've found fairly close (within an hour or so) correlation an amazing number of times. Another factor which must, of course, be taken into account is the time line (latitude) you're fishing on compared to the time line the chart you're using was drawn up for.
That's been my observation, anyway, and that's why I try to always make it a point to have my line in the water around the majors and minors of the solarlunar charts.
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The correlation, of course, isn't there all the time. I'm sure atmospheric pressures, clouds at night during otherwise bright moons, high flows, low flows, and other factors which aren't compensated for in the solarlunar charts interfere, but over all those years, I've found fairly close (within an hour or so) correlation an amazing number of times. Another factor which must, of course, be taken into account is the time line (latitude) you're fishing on compared to the time line the chart you're using was drawn up for.
That's been my observation, anyway, and that's why I try to always make it a point to have my line in the water around the majors and minors of the solarlunar charts.
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