 Steps wrote:If ione fishes by bite times , then takes into account weather windows.. throw in work and family commitments Forget fishing and take up needle point cause u may manage at most a couple days... or going by bite times.. hours a year Bite times have found very often when they end the fish also end... but so often bad times, between times some / a lot of our best fishing has been on bad days. EG u have a bad bite time day coming up.. say next wed/thurs weather window.. do you go or not? |
| Steps wrote: If ione fishes by bite times , then takes into account weather windows.. throw in work and family commitments Forget fishing and take up needle point cause u may manage at most a couple days... or going by bite times.. hours a year |
), the weather forecast should be your first port of call.
| Steps wrote: No one gives a shoot about bite times in the real world of experienced fishing folks, they are nice to knows and not essentials. Not exactly... For us the 1st thing is ID the next weather wind, which with modern data and forecasts ar reliable 5 to 6 days out.. maybe moving 4 to 8 hrs, but 2/ 3 days out usually spot on. Next tides and currents...between the current direction and tide times basically determines when/where you are going to fish and how.. Then Season combined with above tides current as where to go and depth.. depths may change as tide changes also.. ie from 3 to 6m to 20 to 45m... or when to hit the reefs or the shell fish / crab beds near by. Then last bite times...very often this will determine which tide you are going to catch.. a early or late start.. sometimes There is not one single magic 'pill'.. but a combination of many factors. And that is where keeping notes, doing 'homework' .. throw historical information you have kept in. Then presto you have why the same guys always get back to the ramp with a good feed, and most (the othe 90/95%) of the "lets go fishing TODAY' cause looks good weather" at 9 or 10 am.. get to the ramp and have to wait for the tide to come in.. and park miles from the ramp. Oh yeah forgot a very important factor above.. the distance one has to walk between the ramp and trailer.. thats good boat/fishing time wasted. Mark Twain said something like " Luck is directionally proportional to the effort put in" He was not talking about the effort Tom Sawyer put in to pull a big catfish up out of the Mississippi, but rather getting to the right place at the right time |
| n00bfish wrote: That Marine Deals bite times link is really good, IMO. |
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