Moon Phases app

[Kevin Brown]

Anyone know of a decent moon phase app that’s free ? (iOS)
I remember the old Abu Garcia book with three fishes for good fishing
one fish for poor that used moon phases for reference .

I think it plays a decent sized part of the jigsaw we all try to put together on a weekly basis along with water temperatures and river levels etc

 

[Alex Warren]

Willyweather website does the job. I think there’s an app too, but I just put a link on my Home Screen. Tap the webpage url, then the little box with the arrow, scroll down to ‘add to home screen’.

 

[Bill Walford]

Willyweather website does the job. I think there’s an app too, but I just put a link on my Home Screen. Tap the webpage url, then the little box with the arrow, scroll down to ‘add to home screen’.

Loads of info on WillyWeather

 

[Paul Rogers]

probadosoft moon phases is the app I have on my phone. I feel is the best out there

 

[Richard Isaacs]

Who needs an app

 

[Daniel Jeffery]

I’ve got My Moon Phase on my phone. Free on iOS

‎My Moon Phase - Lunar Calendar

‎My Moon Phase is the best app for tracking the lunar calendar. It has a sleek dark design which makes it easy to view information such as the current moon cycle, moonrise & moonset times as well as extras such as when the next full moon will be. If you're interested in moon photography, you can...

apps.apple.com

 

[Gary Wagstaff]

fishing & hunting solunar time

 

[Steve Kenchington]

Anyone know of a decent moon phase app that’s free ? (iOS)
I remember the old Abu Garcia book with three fishes for good fishing
one fish for poor that used moon phases for reference .

I think it plays a decent sized part of the jigsaw we all try to put together on a weekly basis along with water temperatures and river levels etc

Tides4fishing.com works for me.

 

[Mark Kingston]

https://moonphases.co.uk/moon-calendar I've just saved this as a bookmark

 

[Mark Harridence]

https://moonphases.co.uk/moon-calendar I've just saved this as a bookmark

Looks good!

 

[Kevin Brown]

Thanks chaps
The iOS app looks good although none tell
me the best moon for fishing?
Think it’s the new moon and a full moon ?
But then we have a super moon this Sunday ?!
I wasn’t going to go fishing on any specific moon phase it’s just out of curiosity really .

 

[Richard Isaacs]

I think if you’ve got something to tell you easily what phases are currently happening the rest you can work out with research and other’s experience.
Personally I wouldn’t pick my fishing trips based on moon phase. I’m not saying it doesn’t have an effect but I don’t believe it’s big enough to start planning trips around it. If the weather and water temperature are looking good I’m not really too worried about what the moon is doing, I’ll go fishing

 

[Jim Ufton]

Do you think the fish use the same app rich??

 

[Richard Isaacs]

Do you think the fish use the same app rich??

I hope not mate or they’ll start making apps telling them the best times to feed avoiding us Wally’s on the bank

 

[Mark Harridence]

I don't think it's worrh basing a fishing trip purely around a specific moon phase, as Rich said, weather, air pressure and water temperature are more important triggers for feeding.
It's not just the particular moon phases, it's specific times during the moon's orbit on the day that are considered to be the key times also, such as moon rise, high orbit, moon set and low orbit.
I occasionally check a catch against these times but the results are pretty inconclusive.

 

[Paul Rogers]

Thanks chaps
The iOS app looks good although none tell
me the best moon for fishing?
Think it’s the new moon and a full moon ?
But then we have a super moon this Sunday ?!
I wasn’t going to go fishing on any specific moon phase it’s just out of curiosity really .

Well the is a difficult can of worms. For many years as a carp angler, I had a fear of fishing on a full moon, until a freezing foggy night on a full moon gave me one of my best captures.. My PB barbel was caught during the daytime on the day of a winter full moon; so now i don't really worry about it. But, having said that; as I am unable to plan my time out; I just fish the best I can in the conditions I am faced with!!!

 

[Daniel Jeffery]

If you take notice of all factors (air temp, water temp, air pressure, river level, precipitation, cloud cover, wind direction, moon phase, position of the sun, tea leaves, who’s the current prime minister, etc) you’d end up never going fishing.

I’ve got a brilliant app on my phone that tells me when to fish:

 

[Jim Ufton]

If you think about it , we have a full moon once a month ish, and obviosly the waxing and waning to get to that point, so theres only about a week where the moon is not visible at some time in the night sky, so fish should be used to seeing and feeling its presence, personally temp trend is much more important to me, but having a bait in the water trumps all ifs and buts,,,,,

 

[Graham Elliott]

Air pressure most important to me. .
After water temperature

 

[David Craine]

Just chuck the gear in the car and go .

It may not work for everybody , but you will never ever catch fish when you are home sat looking at a computer wondering “if “ you will catch .

I am much the same as Paul… I never worry about conditions really and that includes floods, moon phases, wind, etc .The only thing that does put me off is drought , and that is because the fish in most rivers these days have a hard enough time of it anyway without me contributing to it by trying or even succeeding to catch them when they may not recover due to low oxy levels .

Dave