Lake Gaston Guide: Fishing: Moon & Sun Charts

Lake Gaston Fishing:
Sun & Moon Phases

Fisherman know that the best fishing times are when the fish are feeding. Many fishermen believe fish are most active during a 90 minute window surrounding four daily influences: Moonrise, moonset, sunrise and sunset.

Some also say that by choosing times when sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset coincide with new or full moon phases, you'll increase you chance of a good fishing catch.

You can use the online form below to generate a table of sunrise-sunset and moonrise-moonset times from the Naval Observatory. This will also tell you the phase of the moon.

Lake Gaston Guide: Generate Sun/Moon Chart

Year: Month: Day:

State or Territory:

City or Town Name:

The place name you enter above can be changed but it must be a city or town in the U.S. The place's location will be retrieved from a file with over 22,000 places listed by the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Either upper- or lower-case letters or a combination can be used. Spell out place name prefixes, as in "Jackson Hole", "Island Park", "Mount Vernon", etc. The only exception is "St.", which is entered as an abbreviation with a period, as in "St. Louis". You need only enter as many characters as will unambiguously identify the place.

Other Sun/Moon Charts

There are a number of other fishing charts that compute the best time of day using moon and sun timetables, and in some cases using other factors. Here are links to some of the more popular.