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TIP:
During a full moon, most fish tend to hide in the shadows.  Look for shadows in the water to know where to cast out towards. If there are no shadows, it may be a bit harder topinpoint them...yet they're out there.  Fish normally bite more frequently if it isn't a full moon, or it's partially hidden by clouds.


MOON PHASES - OVERVIEW*
Lunar phases are the result of our seeing the illuminated half of the Moon from different viewing geometries: They are not caused by shadows of the Earth on the Moon that occur during a lunar eclipse. The Moon exhibits different phases as the relative geometry of the Sun, Earth and Moon change, appearing as a full moon when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, and becoming invisible as a new moon (also named dark moon) when they are on the same side. The phases of full moon and new moon are examples of syzygies, which occur when the Earth, Moon and Sun lie (approximately) in a straight line. The time between two full moons (or between successive occurrences of the same phase) is about 29.53 days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes) on average. This synodic month is longer than the time it takes the Moon to make one orbit about the Earth with respect to the fixed stars (the sidereal month), which is about 27.32 days. This difference is caused by the fact that the Earth-Moon system is orbiting about the Sun at the same time the Moon is orbiting about the Earth.

The actual time between two syzygies is variable because the orbit of the Moon is elliptic and subject to various eriodic perturbations, which change the velocity of the Moon. It might be naively expected that once every month when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun during a new moon, its shadow would fall on Earth causing a solar eclipse. Likewise, during every full moon, we might expect the Earth's shadow to fall on the Moon, causing a lunar eclipse.

We do not observe a solar and lunar eclipse every month because the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted by about 5 degrees with respect to the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun. Thus, when new and full moons occur, the Moon usually lies to the north or south of a direct line through the Earth and Sun. An eclipse can only occur not only when the Moon is either new or full, but also when it is positioned at (or very nearly at) the intersection of Earth's orbit plane about the Sun and the Moon's orbit plane about the Earth (that is, at one of its nodes).  This happens about twice per year, and so there are between 4 and 7 eclipses in a calendar year. Most of these are quite insignificant; major eclipses of the Moon or Sun are rather rare and newsworthy events.


 

Sunrise/Sunset - Moon Phase Calculator

During a new moon (the dark of the moon) or full moon, fish and wildlife activity is usually maximized.
Periods of increased animal activity (not only fish are influenced) last from 1.5 to 3 hours depending on the moon's relationship to the sun. Minor Solunar periods occur during the rising and setting times of the moon, and major periods are indicated during the two transits. You can roughly calculate these maximum solunar times for yourself by adding six hours to the rise and set times for the moon. If these occur within 30 minutes of a sunrise or sunset the impact will be even greater. And maximum impact occurs when these events coincide with a full or new moon.


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