I voted yes as I believe that fishing by the moon works, however not all Maori fishing calendars are accurate to the region you fish.
The best thing is to make a diary of your fishing trips and relate them to the moon to get your regional bite times/best fishing times.

Had heaps of good days on the predicted bad days.

Yeah agree with you JK on the moon phases.
The Maori calendars very, so not that accurate.
It also depends on where you are fishing and what your target species. Blue cod and gurnard don't seem to be affected much by the Moon. The moon seems to affect snapper, although if you fish estuaries, harbours etc the bite times usually relate to the tidal flows. Depth of water also makes a different.
Apparently when the moon is closer it affects the Atmospheric pressure, which affects the wind and weather i.e. "calm before a bit of a blow". The atmospheric pressure apparently affects the little bones in fish ears.
A guy by the name of Ken Ring has written quite a lot about it and predicts weather reasonably accurately.
Earlier explorers would also plan their adventures based on the same theories.

Itsallablur wrote:   Naki man wrote: A guy by the name of Ken Ring has written quite a lot about it and predicts weather reasonably accurately.   Might wanna get hold of Ken Ring and see if he can predict if you'l lose your glasses or break a rod tommorrow Pete.......

Don't need to be a genius to predict that

Last week was planned as I was simulating a surf roll over to determine whether the new padding to my seat would stay on. It did

Only lost my glasses once and broken 1 rod twice