They never "lit off" for me yesterday, either. Although, I had some action on a few quality fish... Catching the tide/water movement where you fish is essential. A lot of slack water yesterday. It can be good, but I don't particularly like full moons, esp. the backside. I prefer new moon cycles...

 

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You were probably were not fishing at the right time....Mid-summer trout seem to run small quite often anyway....Try bigger baits to avoid the dinks.

 

New moon in my honest opinion during day... Or at night full moon big topwaters for big fish!

 

The major feeding times are noon and midnite during full and new moons. the minors are at 6am and 6pm. Each day move those times forward 1 hour . . . check an almanac calendar for that day - poor, fair, good, best . . . fish the best day at the best time. . . tides are indicative of the bite . . . my .02

 

Remember, a lot of bigger fish, apparently are caught 3-4 days either side of new/full moons. I don't doubt it...

 

2 days prior, or after a new or full moon. Look at the tide chart starting today thru monday.

 

Fish travel. Places that you catch fish on might be empty the next trip around. I went 8hrs straight looking for fish in places that by then would have yielded at least enough for my wife and I to eat. We did not have a single red or trout until 5 in the afternoon after all day grinding. We had a blast on one single h. hustler on purple/chart from 5-dark (since I had not planned on using lights that evening). Had we left at midday, as I mostly do, we would have been skunked, had we only gone in the afternoon it would have been a great "day" for fishing. Sadly fish do not fish on our time schedule sometimes.

 

no matter the moon you still want to key on bait, slicks, tides and weather. unless you know a hotspot. but even then it only holds fish for so long.

 

I got on my best topwater bite in about two weeks on Tuesday in the evening from about 7:30 until it got completely dark.

 

the moon with least wind and smallest waves