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- I’ve only been interested in this aspect of fishing for a
few months but in that short time I have noticed an increase in activity for
the time of day but as yet have I do not hold an opinion on the variables days
for the month. - I do not fish in the sea but
fish estuarine water for searun trout and the mouth of salmon rivers where
tidal flow is important factors. -
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- http://www.mdr.co.nz/wtides/downloads.htm - http://www.mdr.co.nz/wtides/downloads.htm
Of the two I prefer Wtide as it not only
gives the tide flow but the best fishing times for the day moon phases, time
from both high and to low water. It’s
not complicated but the graph can take a little time to work out. The best way is to change the colour to suit yourself. The only down side is that the program has
preset long and lat but if you click on the world map zoom in to your local
harbour etc you should get a close time.
I fish the Waimak mouth but the close tide harmonic is Lyttleton. It’s a freebee but you can pay to be a
registered user and this gives you further options
I also use http://www.solunarforecast.com/worldcalendar.aspx - http://www.solunarforecast.com/worldcalendar.aspx
Another freebee but you need to register
to use the World solunar prediction table.
This is Lat and long specific. You
can zoom into the desired location on the map and click the long and lat. for that
area.to get the best times so if you know your GPS co-ordinates you can get the
best times exactly for that area. The
solunarforcast time zone only goes to UTC +12.
This is not NZDS which is UTC +13 so you will need to add one hour onto
the time until our daylight saving ends and we go back to UTC +12.
Sol/forecast is a text based table that gives the best times
for all days of the month and can be printed using the PDF icon.
Another program I use is Skyviewcafe http://www.skyviewcafe.com/ - http://www.skyviewcafe.com/ This is an online planetarium. It has a number of features one of which is
the transit times of both the sun and moon.
Without going into much detail there are two schools of thought with
solunar tables. One school believes the rising and setting of the moon is the
fundamental factor of ‘bite times and the other the transit times or when both
the sun or the moon are at the highest point in the sky. I have only delved into this in a small way
but it seems to me that most solunar tables are based on transit time but some
appear to be based on moonrise and moonset.
While it is true that feeding activity can be observed during this time
I think other factors in low light come into play like light polarization and
UV factors for target acquisition but this is another subject and not one for
this thread and not point of my post. I
hold that the transition of both the sun and the moon and when these are in
line as they are on the 28 Dec at 1.30pm good fishing should be happening.
Skyview as with the solunarforcst is a lat and long specific
program so once again if you know the exact lat and long for your area you can
put these in and get the transit time for the exact area that you are fishing
in.
Using these programs you can check the accuracy of times
with either sunrise of sunset times from your local paper. You may get a variance of a few minutes.
For the die hard on this I sometime use this http://www.jgiesen.de/moondistance/index.htm - http://www.jgiesen.de/moondistance/index.htm
It gives the moon distance which many
maintain it is the distance of the moon that determines the dates of the month
are the better than others when the moon is futher away. Light and gravitational factors may have something
to do with this so if the weather is not good and you have nothing better to do
have a play around.
Bottomline
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