Thread: Time for spawn

It is in southwest Arkansas, caught about 30 last night and I say about, didn’t get to count em, fish basket somehow got dumped and lost a bunch of em.


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I sometimes use information I get from spots on tv and the internet as tools to try , but I take nothing to the bank unless I try it and find its so .
I am not sold on the full moon theory as much as time of year and water temperatures and a few other factors .
I have done well in the spring on a BIG moon and have also had about nada in some cases .
my wife used to laugh at me about it because I used the moon phases as reasons to slip off in the dark .
new moon full moon waxing moon and so on and so forth with such a variance in bites it isn't even funny
my 3 cents worth if you please

I've done probably as well or better during the new moon.

I would just go fishing. If you base the bluegill spawn off the full moon you will be missing out more often than not. I've been checking tons of bedding areas at Nickajack Lake the past 4 weeks....latest check was yesterday. Not the first sign of beds. Water temps at 8:30 a.m. were 59 degrees.


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I don't think water temp is warm enough this year for the spawn to be the first full moon in May. Perhaps better in the deep south but we had frost this week with highs in the low 50's . Next week 2 days of possible frost. Need some warm nights and hot days to bring them in.

I went to Center Hill Friday and no sign of bedding gills or crackers. Water was stained and could see lures about one foot deep. Temp is 62 degrees Will check again later this week.

Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd

Saw Bill Dance bream fishing and he said the 5 days prior to the first full moon in May was the time for the major bream spawn. Full moon is the 7th. If he was right it is time to get after them. Was he right?

Bill Dance is from TN, so I'd suspect he's talking mostly about the climate in TN. Right now, the weather has been odd. The fish are moving up to spawn, a cold front comes in or we get a lot of rain, and the water temp drops, and the fish go back down into deeper water. They've attempted to spawn, but I haven't seen a big spawn yet. The full moon is going to be a supermoon too. Fish follow a lot of different conditions. Barometric pressure, moon phases, and water temp are the big ones but water temp is the biggest variable when it comes to the spawn.