Fishing Guides

Plain guides about fishing times, tides, and the moon, written for fishermen. Every guide uses real spots and real numbers from this site.

• How the Best Fishing Times Are Figured
  How the best fishing times on this site are figured from the moon: moon overhead and underfoot, moonrise and moonset, worked through for one real day at San Francisco.
• Why Fish Feed When the Water Is Moving
  Incoming tide, outgoing tide, and slack tide explained in plain words, with one real day of NOAA tide predictions at San Francisco showing when the water moves fastest.
• Full Moon and New Moon Fishing: Why Those Days Rate Higher
  Why the days around the new moon and full moon rate highest on this site, with real November 2026 ratings and NOAA tide ranges at San Francisco, and why full moon nights are a special case.
• Morning or Evening: When the Bite Windows Meet the Light
  How sunrise and sunset line up with the best fishing times, with a real Boston day where both the morning and evening windows hit, and sunrise and sunset times showing how much the seasons move the light.
• How to Read a Tide Chart for Fishing, Step by Step
  A plain step by step walk through a real tide chart and tide table: San Francisco on November 7, 2026, with NOAA's own numbers, from finding high tide to planning the trip.
• Why Tide Times Change So Much From Place to Place
  The same morning high tide reaches five San Francisco Bay spots at five different times. Real NOAA predictions for November 7, 2026 show a spread of an hour and 41 minutes, and the heights differ by two and a half feet.
• The Best Fishing Days of the Month: How the List Is Picked
  How the best fishing days list on each spot page is picked, worked through day by day for San Francisco in November 2026: the winning days, the worst days, and what the pattern teaches.
• Wind, Rain, and Air Pressure: What Old Fishermen Watch
  Traditional weather wisdom for fishing: falling air pressure, the old east wind saying, rain washing food in, stated carefully as tradition rather than fact, and how it fits with the moon and tide ratings on this site.