Fishing Calendar – When Is the best day to fish?
The Farmers’ Almanac Fishing Calendar is based on the phase of the Moon, the zodiac sign the Moon is in, and experience. Local conditions, tides, and weather may affect your fishing success.
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CALENDAR KEY
Fishing Condition
This is the overall rating for the whole day, based upon our formula:
Best Time
This column lists the best time of the day when, according to our formula, fish will be biting: MORNING or EVENING.
- Apr 23 Best Evening
- Apr 24 Best Evening
- Apr 25 Fair Evening
- Apr 26 Fair Evening
- Apr 27 Poor Evening
- Apr 28 Fair Evening
- Apr 29 Fair Evening
- Apr 30 Good Evening
- May 01 Good Morning
- May 02 Best Morning
- May 03 Best Morning
- May 04 Poor Morning
- May 05 Poor Morning
- May 06 Poor Morning
- May 07 Poor Evening
- May 08 Poor Evening
- May 09 Poor Evening
- May 10 Best Evening
- May 11 Best Evening
- May 12 Best Evening
- May 13 Poor Evening
- May 14 Poor Evening
- May 15 Fair Morning
- May 16 Fair Morning
- May 17 Fair Morning
- May 18 Poor Morning
- May 19 Poor Morning
- May 20 Best Morning
- May 21 Best Morning
- May 22 Best Morning
- May 23 Fair Evening
What do our ratings mean?
POOR day basically means the fish will either steal all your bait or will not even touch your line.
FAIR day means that you may catch one or two fish but you will have to work hard to do so.
GOOD day means that you will catch enough fish to feel gratified.
BEST day means that you will catch something almost every time you cast your line in the water.
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In the farmers almanac says poor good best or fair in the evening or morning for fishing does that mean it is better or worse opposite of what they’re saying
Primarily it means that that timing has a strong tie to the formula, other times may be fair, etc, but that particular time is strongly aligned.
Do you think tomorrow would be a good day to bass fishing in farm ponds and what bait should I use in the ponds
We think any day is a good day to go fishing – if you are looking for a successful outing though – Sept 18 and 19 are good days to fish in the evening, September 24 and 25 are good days to fish in the morning, and Sept 26 and 27 are BEST DAYS to fish – preferably in the morning. I usually use spinnerbait in ponds and small lakes. Good luck!
When it says poor in the evening for fishing does that mean that the morning time is poor too or could you have a good morning and a poor evening? Am I making sense lol?
I was wondering the same haha. Someone please help
I’m wondering the same thing!!
why does the fish not bait on bad days
thanks for the information it helps me out. thank you
We are happy to hear that the information was useful!
i love crappie and bass
This really helps me out when I want to go fish
Hope you have a successful fishing day!