Pisces Moon Today

[UserRemoved1]

Try echinachea root mixed with some herbal essence for the crabs

Originally Posted by Raven

it keeps me up @ nite
can't sleep past 3 am on a full moon
sumthin bout the energy
crabs love it

[Rockfish9]

Never ceases to amaze me how many people curse a full moon but these same people will fish during the day... mind blowing..the more people that stay home on a full moon the happier I am.

[DZ]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

Never ceases to amaze me how many people curse a full moon but these same people will fish during the day... mind blowing..the more people that stay home on a full moon the happier I am.

Rock,
That is the usual perspective of the boat fishing community on the topic of bright moons. Not sure but I think you’re part of that group? Bright moons “potentially” have a much more detrimental effect on the surf caster.

DZ

[cheferson]

I've had great night with bright moons with fish over 30lbs . This past week when I busted the rod , there was cloud cover most of the time .....

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by DZ

Rock,
That is the usual perspective of the boat fishing community on the topic of bright moons. Not sure but I think you’re part of that group? Bright moons “potentially” have a much more detrimental effect on the surf caster.

DZ

let me be clear on something.... I fish water shallower than most surf men do...all of the fish ( some pushing the 40lb mark) we caught tuesday night were tight to the sand.. in less than 2'of water... as i stated, we could watch the crabs crawl along the bottom ...if the shallow water alarm ( set @ 2") is not yapping at me.. I'm too deep!..... at one point I had to stop trolling the beach ( casting into the suds) because two surfmen had rods spiked with their lines angling out beyond the fish.. had I wanted to be a dXXX i could have slid under their lines and yanked fish out from benieth them. instead.. I used the electric motor to drive out to deep water to get around them and continue on my way.. for the record... last weekend when the surf was up.. I fished the same area from the surf because i can't get the boat in tight enough when it's hilly.. Bruce knows what I'm talking about...I use the boat because the tide is very late.. the fish have been showing the last 3 hours of the incoming and it's a long walk and I have to work the next day.. as it is my head hit the pillow at 2:45.. the alarm for work goes off at 6:00... using the boat gives me more time to fish...the boat is simply a tool.. just like my waders or Korkers.. I use what best suits my situation... my ONLY advantage is covering more ground and getting a little more time on the water.... and in the end.. that's all I can ask for...

It's an old myth that has lived far too long... 11 of my 15 fish 50lb or better ALL have been taken on or within 2 days of the full moon... that includes a 58lb fish from head of the meadow beach in Trurro in October of '87 and a 54lb fish earlier the same year taken off of the rocks at boars head in new hampshire.. BTW.. both those fish were taken on plugs under a jillion candel power full moon... there's nothing mystical or secret about it... you just need to believe... i believe in results...so, I dont sleep much on a full moon.
this is more information than I've given out in some time.. time for me to stop yapping and get back to work...

[Slipknot]

wish I was there Joe

and ya, too much information, wait another decade or so and keep on

[chefchris401]

The fishing was good for me this week.

monday 12-430am
tuesday 12-330am

it was so bright i didnt need my lights for anything. no clouds anywhere.

lots of fish, nothing over mid teens but numbers wise, great. monday was big blues and smaller stripers mixed in, darters and redfins absolutely crushed, lost my mojo darter after three consectuive hook ups, fish took it around a rock on the reef, oh well.

Thought i had an albie on at night but ended up being a tail hooked striper, must have came up and over the plug and managed to get the single hook in the meat at the base of the tail. put up a great fight.

tuesday was more of the same, fish every other cast, lots of short hits, bigger fish and no blues.

no bait at the spot i was at, but lots of spearing around.

dark over light colors were the hot ticket for plugs.

overall a good two nights of fishing, and also not another person out, hit 5 spots on my way to my desired location, ghost town, I love fishing at night.

[Night Shift]

There is only one gripe I have about a bright full moon... when you get them in close, large fish (30 to 50+ pounds) love to duck under the boat and hide in the shadow. I'm positive that most people know that is the last place you want to battle a fish, especially when "bottom" is only in two feet below the skeg. It makes for some very tense moments when these fish hold bottom behind the transom and/or continuously dart diagonally to opposite ends of the boat while the angler has to run around the deck like a dog chasing it's tail.

God I love the full moon!!!


...Joe does own a surf belt. It was put to use under the same bright conditions two nights prior. We were casting into exactly the same type of water. We were just standing on the opposite side of the waves.