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Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:47 pm

Fair play Cortaz. Good idea to keep a log although up north we don't have the luxury of a regular catching cycle that you have down south.

Still, it's an excuse to get out and wet a line.

Steve

#22 Post by **cortaz** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:32 pm

teacher wrote:Art, that's a nice piece of work.

The peaks are interesting. At new moon you have a higher peak but for fewer days while at full moon you have a lower peak but for more days. Is that an anomoly or does the same pattern show up on your month-by-month data?

almost as regular as clockwork, so accurate it is unbeliveable.
moon rise/set are as good if not better than sun rise/set(dawn,dusk)
ever wonder why sometimes you get 3/4 fish in an hour and nothing eather side... the moon.

#23 Post by MC » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:37 pm

so your saying that its best to fish at night only when the moon is full or new

#24 Post by **cortaz** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:40 pm

pete wrote:Your spending too much time noting moon phases mate :lol:

eye am am eye :roll: ,
and if everyone else did theyed be a lot more fish caught. :shock:

#25 Post by jd » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:59 pm

ok!
Any volunteers to go over the shore reports forum!!

jd

#26 Post by **cortaz** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:38 am

MC wrote:so your saying that its best to fish at night only when the moon is full or new

MC
no, at anytime during the peak days/nights of the lunar month.

#27 Post by **Kraken** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:55 am

whether or which ...

I'll be there on Saturday :D

Bring on the Bass :!: :!: :!: :!:
:D :D :D :D

john.

teacher · #28 Post by **teacher** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:25 am

cortaz wrote:moon rise/set are as good if not better than sun rise/set(dawn,dusk)
ever wonder why sometimes you get 3/4 fish in an hour and nothing eather side... the moon.

I have a spot that always fishes best at night on a spring tide two hours after hgh water. I must check out whether that ties in with moon-rise/set times ...

#29 Post by MC » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:08 am

cortaz wrote:
MC wrote:so your saying that its best to fish at night only when the moon is full or new

MC
no, at anytime during the peak days/nights of the lunar month.

thanks cortaz, must start noting lunar cycles

#30 Post by **round_ourway** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:18 pm

Some interesting stuff there cortaz will definitely take it on board cheers

Mr_Green · #31 Post by **Mr_Green** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:29 pm

im 100% there myself... have never caught a bass, can they smell my virginity? :lol:

#32 Post by **inigo** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:46 pm

These link may be of use here:

http://solunar.ebierzo.com/

http://www.otsinnovations.tzo.com/Files/Soltb135.zip

Last one is a standalone program.

I've compared results for February in Dublin and they're not too different. Only thing left to do is go out there and see if the predictions are true!

PS: I forgot that the program (soltab) can be linked to this one to calculate tides:

http://www.wxtide32.com/

teacher · #33 Post by **teacher** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:54 pm

Try this from accuweather

[url]http://tinyurl.com/38bgw2[/url]

(moon phase information, including rise and set, at bottom)

#34 Post by **cortaz** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:23 pm

Mr_Green wrote:im 100% there myself... have never caught a bass, can they smell my virginity? :lol:

your gona lose it saturday :D 8)

#35 Post by **cortaz** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:30 pm

16/1/07 2/5p.m.; 4 bass; 2 @2 and 2.15 M.S.@ 1.15
2 @4.30 and 4.40 S.S. @ 4.40

19/1/07;1/3p.m.; 2bass @1 and 1.30 M.T.@ 1.05

21/1/07;3/5p.m. 1 bass @3.15 M.T. @ 3.00

31/1/07;2/4.30 3 bass @2.30,2.45,3.00 M.R.@ 3.00

fishin best BEFORE Moon rise and AFTER moon set and eather side of moon/sun transit.
same applies to rise and set of the Sun

steo · #36 Post by **steo** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:58 pm

where abouts is clonea

steo · #37 Post by **steo** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:06 pm

new on this forum. just wondering when and where the best place to bass fish near the dublin region

#38 Post by **Adam S** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:00 pm

there is a big enough tide this weekend, high tide down your way would be around half five on sat.

are you basing your predictions purely on tidal patterns or are you looking at moon phase, moon and sun set times and triggers as well?

i have done that with pike fishing, does tend to work, other factors affect too obviously like weather, water clarity, light levels,time of year and so on. but the moon phase stuff has a canny knack of being accurate, and not just for pike

#39 Post by **Adam S** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:21 pm

ah i didnt see the second page of the topic when i clicked on the moved thread.

i used the same system, more or less (i had an equation done up that took weather, water clarity and air pressure into acccount too), i did a check back through my log a few years ago and looked at specimen fish or big catches. 16 out of twenty that i looked at came on peak days. 19 out of 20 came either on a peak day or 24 hours either side of peak day. pretty convincing.

but i kinda got sick of using the system so i havent used in the last year or two, it was getting a bit predictable and i was enjoying fishing less because of it. so i ditched it and now i think ignorance is bliss :D

#40 Post by jd » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:08 am

Hi Cortaz
we have a competition scheduled for waterford area saturday June 16th.

New moon is JUNE 15 3 13

WE had thought an evening comp- what would you thionk??

jd