So a dutch guy at my work has started telling me that he now goes fishing depending on the moon and suns position ect and apparently it works well for him, and usually catch's his quota.
I've tried looking on the net to find out how to figure out when to go fishing and found a program called fishbyte 6 which tells you the major and minor bite time of the day. So I will try fishing off the rocks tomorrow at archilles pt according to what this program says and will get back to you on the success.

Does anyone else fish according to the lunar/solar positions? Or does anyone have any tips or comments?

Cheers boys

so long as you are out there doing it and learning then you are doing it right

Here's some interesting reading for anyone who is willing to learn.

I've always been a supporter of the theory but if a not so good moon phase is on and i have a day off then its not going to stop me going fishing.

I really like to consider the moon phases now that i have less time to fish due to work and family commitments. Therefore when i go fishing now its more important i go at times where i have more chance of getting the good results. Sure makes sense!

btw this coming saturday there is a cracker bite time late arvo. wouldnt want to miss it but i unfortunately will be at a mates wedding grrrr

As mentioned previously by tugboat, lethal really knows his stuff.

I had also accumulated data for eons for snapper (and ONLY snapper) caught from the shore by mates and myself. (nowhere as much data as lethal would have) Took from this, this data from the largest, about 30 snapper over 7.5 kg. Is data from shore spots only from both East and West Coast in all sorts of weather conditions, times of day and year.
Excel plots of the data would suggest that if you are after Trophy Snapper, that you are best to concentrate your efforts to the few days either side of the first and last quarters of the moon phase. The greatest numbers of fish caught were essentially right on the quarters most especially the third or last quarter.   Only about ten "best" days for the month!

Moonrise and moonset!
Plots showed that most were caught at these times, particularly in the hour after the moon had just set or in the hour before it rose.   Sometimes a bit earlier if on the east coast when fishing under a cliff at moonset at night, where the cliff casts a shadow well out.
Times are not as clearly defined as the moon phase as could be within an hour either side of the rise or set times.
Even on the non big fish days, I always put out baits for larger fishes at the times of moonrise and moonset and frequently it pays off with the largest snapper on the day.

My original plots from the snapper data had been for a much wider size range, with the smallest at about 5.0kg.   At this size up, there were still a few random fish showing up outside the bell curves for the bulk. An increase to 6.5kg had almost all were concentrated around the quarters. And at 7.5kg all were in.

An interesting point is that most by far of my shore fishing was on the other tides, especially at new moon and despite this the largest snapper came at the quarters.

I have no doubt that many shore fishers out there will have the skills to pick these larger snapper no matter what the moon phase, however I take the easy way and follow the numbers.

And - check out all lethal’s posts. He really knows his onions.

Wtides, from www.wtides.com is another free software program for solar, lunar and tidal prediction.

Cheers for al the info, i've got a lot of reading material to keep me busy till my next time fishing next weekend.
Well I got myself a very nice Kahawai today, 4lb/50cm, and I saw a fair amount of activity of something chasing the local baitfish. sad to say it was a day I wish I was using a softbait or had a livey.
But the weather got too bad to stay there much longer as an hour in the rain was quite enough.