The Full Moon Theory | OutdoorHub

In the world of fishing, theories are a dime a dozen. One concept that holds a number of water is the speculation that claims that fishing isn’t any good the morning after a full moon. The cause being that the sunshine from the moon is so brilliant that it lights up the water permitting the fish to feed by the evening. While the speculation is smart, I’ve by no means truly seen it pan out on any of my fishing journeys.  

That all modified on my newest fishing journey. I used to be fishing with crappie knowledgeable Tim Bye of Folsom, LA. Bye fishes the Tchefuncte River which is a well-known crappie fishing vacation spot in Southeast Louisiana. We began fishing the principle river utilizing 1/32 oz. Bobby Garland jigs within the Monkey Milk shade. Bye operates Garmin Panoptix LiveScope which permits for an unbelievable display screen show. We stopped at our first spot which was a fallen tree with it’s cover prolonged out roughly 30 toes. 

Bye identified quite a few crappie on the display screen and we started to decrease our traces down. While trying on the display screen, we each witnessed the fish look at our jigs then move with none curiosity.

I’ve been fishing with Bye earlier than and knew sufficient to acknowledge that this was not a great signal. Crappie are very temperamental and whereas discovering the fish was no downside, it was one other story getting them to chunk.

After stopping at our second spot, the fish repeated the identical process as they did on the first cease. “These fish just don’t want to bite,” Bye stated. “I think that full moon last night is hurting us.” I clung to that assertion figuring out that the fish would activate ultimately after they obtained hungry once more. Tim advisable we change our recreation plan over to a mid-day journey which might give the fish time to work up an urge for food from feeding in a single day. 

It was about 11:00 a.m. after we began fishing once more. We headed to the identical spot the place the crappie rejected out jigs. This is the place the total moon concept turned reality for me. 

Bye lowered down his jig and the primary crappie on the highest of the varsity turned up and approached it. We each seemed on the monitor because the fish moved nearer to the lure, then he tagged it! Bye set the hook and reeled in a 10-inch crappie. In that one spot we caught 25 crappie and whereas It turned out to be a profitable journey, I extra importantly had first hand proof that the total moon concept did have an have an effect on on the fish the subsequent morning. 

Keith Lusher

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