Biting times?

I know with walleye fishing which I've honestly done more of walleye fishing than crappie, walleye are extremely temperamental and you can be right in them but for some reason they aren't biting. I'm not a professional crappie fishermen like some of you guys are, so let me ask you this, if you find the fish and are right in them does it really matter much the time of day? I just assume if you dangle a minnow down into a school of crappie the likelihood of getting a bite is very high no matter the time of day.
I can only get out today from about 1 to 4 and I know typically mornings and late afternoons are best.

I'm by no means an expert, but I have found that early to mid afternoon to be the least productive time of the day on most days. That doesn't mean you can't catch fish then, but if you have a choice daylight and dusk are more productive.


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Caught these between 10am and noon today, then not a thing from noon to 1, sometimes they bite, sometimes they plain shut down. I fish when I get the chance, sometimes on my lunch break, some days they bite, some they don't. It has more to do with barometric pressure and water temp than time of day in my opinion.


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Lots of times we are on crappie, and they don't want to bite!

Old Guy fishing HD before dawn at the boat ramp I've been useing seems to be doing good on the shallow bite in the dark. Lighted cork trick.

Lighted cork trick I assume is lit bobbers?
I would assume the boat ramps get fishing pressure from bank fishermen, maybe crappie continually move through the area though. We were on a spot that had two boats fishing it on Thursday, and when we were there Sunday, it had one boat besides us. Even with that pressure I think fish continue to move through that spot though. These two boats were wacking em pretty good then it slowed so they left, then when we moved right on it, we caught some about 10 minutes later and then caught some more.

I do best when the moon is straight over my head whether it be day or night. A dropping barometer is good too. As is right before a storm, the uglier the storm coming, the better the bite. After the storm is almost always slow for me. After dark is normally better all else being equal and I catch my bigger fish after dark.