My Trip North and the Moon:

[wallydave]

Originally Posted by btmbncr

La Battes is the beer used during the goat sacrifice.It's best if you wear your fun underwear also.

I have good walleye fishing during the middle of the day during full moon periods.I will be at Goose Bay during that time period.Bill

Bill that is a wonderful time to be up North! One of my favorite memories at Goose Bay is sitting on the deck on cabin 8 drinking a Blue, smoking a Cuban cigar and watching the full moon rising through the the trees! The firey orange through the trees and reflecting on the Lac!! Wow just about perfect!! Oh yea in early June the fishing was out standing!! Bill have a great trip!

[Glenman12]

Originally Posted by fishincrazy

So I'm going North the last couple of day's of July and the first couple in August.The Full Moon is August 2nd Thursday the 6th night of my trip.Now I have always been told 3 day's before and 3 day's after are the best.Any thoughts on this?

FC

fwiw..several years ago me and my partner along with another boat in our group bought a device from our lodge owner called the Anglers Edge...it estimates fish activity using not only phases of the moon but also barometric pressure..its about the size of a cell phone..some of the info you need to program it correctly is your time zone along with your latitude and longitude coordinates..while a few times it has been off, 90% of the time its is uncannily spot on..dont even know if they sell them anymore..

[tooski]

http://www.scientificfishing.com/mor...edge/index.cfm

[Glenman12]

Originally Posted by tooski

http://www.scientificfishing.com/mor...edge/index.cfm

thanks for being more industrious than me...yep..thats what we have in our boat bag...we only paid $60...

[tooski]

Cheapest was at Amazon @ $79.00. Unusual for electronics to go up in price over time but it apparently did. You say you like it huh?

[Glenman12]

Originally Posted by tooski

Cheapest was at Amazon @ $79.00. Unusual for electronics to go up in price over time but it apparently did. You say you like it huh?

yeah, like it a lot..when we got them the retail price was $85.99..we got them for $60 because thats what our lodge owner paid a professional fisherman who was hawking them on his show at the time..

[81Saluki]

Originally Posted by fishincrazy

So I'm going North the last couple of day's of July and the first couple in August.The Full Moon is August 2nd Thursday the 6th night of my trip.Now I have always been told 3 day's before and 3 day's after are the best.Any thoughts on this?

Your post was timely. I've been fishing for various species from Southern Illinois to Ontario for 40 years and never really noticed any difference when the moon/tides influenced/increased the bite. Perhaps until now.

I recently returned home from near Vermilion Bay. Whether it was the moon, or weather, or something else ... I don't know. But I caught more walleye in the days around the full moon. The attached pic shows the moon over our cabin (boathouse visible) on July 3rd as I came home from my honey hole across the lake. From the 1st to the 4th, the walleye seemed to be on a feeding frenzy at the same holes and same times each day. Before and after that, I had to hunt for a hole that produced 2+ catches. Hmmm.

I'll be paying more attention to the moon/tide thing in the future and see if there really is a correlation.

81Saluki

[fishincrazy]

Originally Posted by 81Saluki

Your post was timely. I've been fishing for various species from Southern Illinois to Ontario for 40 years and never really noticed any difference when the moon/tides influenced/increased the bite. Perhaps until now.

I recently returned home from near Vermilion Bay. Whether it was the moon, or weather, or something else ... I don't know. But I caught more walleye in the days around the full moon. The attached pic shows the moon over our cabin (boathouse visible) on July 3rd as I came home from my honey hole across the lake. From the 1st to the 4th, the walleye seemed to be on a feeding frenzy at the same holes and same times each day. Before and after that, I had to hunt for a hole that produced 2+ catches. Hmmm.

I'll be paying more attention to the moon/tide thing in the future and see if there really is a correlation.

81Saluki

That is totally coll! 81 I will try to get a good picture of the full moon and keep track of the fish catching!

FC

[fishincrazy]

TTT any more opinions on the moon and the bite????

FC

[Golden Eagle]

My wife and I were scheduled to fly in for the August 11 week, which includes a new moon. We were to be the only two guests in camp. When 8 others were booked for the same week I changed our trip to the August 18 week. Being alone on the lake trumps a stronger moon. We'll find fish.

We'll see how it works for us.