When's the Best Time to Go Fishing?
When is the best time to go fishing? There’s an old saying that the best time is whenever you have the time. That’s a bit too flippant. Every dedicated fisherman I know manages somehow to find the time when he feels the fishing is going to be special.
But knowing when the fishing will be special means knowing how to predict fish behavior. Throughout history, fishing cultures around the world have developed folklore about when fish perform the rituals of their life cycle from spawning to migration to feeding. Much of the folklore is fanciful, with mythology mixed in to help explain why some basically unexplainable things happen.
Like picking the wining horse at a race track, there may be no magic formula telling the day, time and tide when fish are certain to strike. However, there is just enough evidence of underlying patterns of fish behavior, to make believers
