Anything at Frenchman's Bay?

[Abu Garcia]

Good point MuskieBait about the tides - indeed lakes does not produced that many. Maybe I should have rephrased with "moon rise" and "moon set"

Though based from my experienced - moon phase does help.
Otherwise the Canadian web sites that publish these lunar phase will not bother providing the information on which days are best to fish.

(05-26-2016 11:27 PM)MuskieBait Wrote:  I haven't fished Frenchman's Bay, so I don't have any to share.

However, I would like to clarify the effects of moon on the tides.

As any Grade 9 student knows, tides are created by the gravitational forces from the moon and the sun. Gravity causes the water to bulge toward the planetary bodies exerting the force. However, this only occurs in oceans where the water is connected around the globe. In smaller bodies of water that are cut off from the ocean, or severely restricted access to the ocean, tides are much too small to be appreciated, and thus exert no influence. The water in a small body of water simply cannot be drawn and move about in the same way as it occurs in the oceans.

Lake Ontario landlocked, and it is too small, to experience any significant tidal changes, and thus it is considered as non-tidal.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/gltides.html

So the argument that the moon phase affects tides and fishing conditions in Frenchman's Bay is unfounded.

However, the amount of light at night could affect some species, such as walleye, on their feeding pattern. For example, walleye may feed more aggressively during dark nights when their sensitive eyes give them an advantage over the prey; while on a bright night, the walleye lose some advantage when prey use the brighter condition to avoid predators.

Personally, except for night fishing, I've noticed little influence of the moon on fishing. I find other factors much more important.

Saltwater fishing, however, is strongly driven by the tides.