Best Time of Day to Fish

[thomaskgrosvenor]

Just really got back into fishing over this past summer. Used to do different outdoor things but my knees are beginning to feel their age. Anyway, perhaps a bit of a newbee discussion, but during my last fishing trip I was starting to reflect about the times when I caught the biggest bass that I caught and about the times of day that I caught them. I thought it might be interesting if other fisherpeople shared what they thought about the best time of day to fish.

Regardless, while shorefishing, I fished both the early am to about 11 am and later afternoon into the evening time frames. I never bothered fishing around lunch time because my research indicated that's not the time to fish.

Interesting to me is that while I caught bass at 6:30 am, I didn't catch the big guys until about the 9 - 11 am time frame. In the afternoons I'd catch them at around three pm but on most occasions, I get the bigger ones in the evening as sunset approached.

Maybe it had to with time, maybe it just had to with the time I reached the right spot, or other conditions (such as where the sun is shining on the lake). But I think its a little interesting.