I know a guy named Charlie Simon that fished at night in the Warrick County area. He fished strip pits at night. He has more than a few big bass mounted on his walls in the basement. He drew his own contour maps and showed several of them to me. He used crank baits and short 5ft long rods to fish for bass.

I drive by his house every week on my way into town but have not talked to him in years.

I'll be that he has a lot of knowledge about night fishing for bass. I'll stop by his house someday and talk to him and ask him about his night fishing adventures and try to report back someday.

The sun and moon light does effect the fish as it provide them light to see by. A full moon's light is not much but it does help cast some light on the water's surface. I suspect that it does help the fish see a little better. I read that bluegills spawn in the shallows this time of year and during a full moon.
Maybe the extra moon light helps them find each other at night.


The gravitational pull of the moon as it swings closer to the earth does increase noticeably. It causes the oceans to move and it may also help trigger earth quakes. Yes the moon's pull on the earth can move the earth's crustal plates some have theorized. It does not take much pull to cause an already under pressure fault to slip and release some energy. According to a program on NOVA a guy predicted the San Francisco Earth Quake by noticing that the moon was closer to the earth at that time. He also predicted several other major earth quakes that occurred by using the moon's path around the earth as a guide.

I have read in fishing magazines that some of the record fish catches have taken place on good solunar table days. Not just one or two records were broken on a predicted excellent fishing solunar table time.

I personally go fishing when I can. I don't wait for a good time according to the solunar tables. But I have also noticed that during times of good fishing the solunar tables on my Garmin eTrex Vista GPS accessory fishing charts showed that that period of time was predicted to be a good time to fish. The Vista GPS has the solunar tables built into it's memory and I can look at the best and good predicted good fishing times while out on the water. It's funny that they do seem to match up most of the time. Once I caught 40 crappie in a two hour time period and the solar tables showed that to be a good time to fish. Fish do seem to bite better at times in the same spot. If you fish for crappie in the same spot you will soon realize that the fish will often turn off or turn on. Now whether its because the leave the area or return to the area I an not sure. They may just get full and stop eating for a few hours. They may just move a few hundred feet out over deep water and suspend 12ft below the surface and rest. Fish have been said to have negative and positive and neutral moods. I know that after a big meal I want to go sit down and watch TV for a few hours or go to sleep. I am not ready to eat again until I have thoroughly digested my big meal. I bet that fish are the same.

Regards,

Moose1am