{"id":4488,"date":"2011-02-12T05:03:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T04:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2016-05-04T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:22:31","slug":"moon-phases-and-carp-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/moon-phases-and-carp-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon phases and carp fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog<\/a> in June 2010 and is reproduced here by kind permission.<\/p>\n

A few days ago we published a post posing the question “Does the moon phase affect your chance of catching carp?” \u00a0This post by Shaun Harrison indicates that he thinks it does…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBig Moon Big Common\u201d is a statement my old mate Dave Booth came out with shortly after netting a 33lb common for me back in April.<\/p>\n

For years Dave has carefully monitored the moon phases and atmospheric pressures in relation to carp captures and has indeed written at length on the subject in Carpworld.<\/p>\n

I have all good intentions of doing similar but find myself sidetracked with excess work etc and end up not recording as much as I would perhaps like to do. I have mixed feelings on understanding too much about our prey as like most others I fall into the category of angling when I can rather than when the conditions are spot on.<\/p>\n

Knowing the conditions are totally hopeless for catching carp has never really bothered me that much as I feel these are the times when the larger fish can and do occasionally slip up.<\/p>\n

I find it easier in my mind to run with simple rules concerning weather\/atmospheric and moon phase conditions. I don\u2019t really want to clutter myself with knowing that a particular time slot on a particular day so long as the weather doesn\u2019t mess things will be the time for a bite. If I am on a 24 hour session I like to keep it broader in the hope of several chances.<\/p>\n

This is why I really like Dave\u2019s comment of \u2018big moon big common\u2019. It is vague enough to fit a day either side of a big full moon and you know what it seems to be a very good gauge. Why this one hasn\u2019t struck me before I don\u2019t know but since Dave planted the seed in my head I have been monitoring this and it is proving to be a very accurate statement with big commons coming from several waters I am in contact with around the full moon period.<\/p>\n

Saturday 26th<\/sup> June was another \u2018full moon day\u2019. I was at the British Carp Study Group A.G.M. and the telephone went. It was John Patterson, he had just landed a 48lb common! The list of \u2018Big Moon Commons\u2019 continues!<\/p>\n

Best fishes,\u00a0Shaun Harrison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog in June 2010 and is reproduced here by kind permission. A few days ago we published a post posing the question “Does the moon phase affect your chance of catching carp?” \u00a0This post by Shaun Harrison indicates that he thinks it does… \u201cBig Moon Big Common\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-tactics-and-watercraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}