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Best fishing times today

Every water we track, with today's windows in its own local time. Most solunar pages give you a form to type coordinates into. This one already knows the water.

Moon tonight: 90% waning — windows run strongest around the new and full moon, weakest at the quarters.

Today's major windows

Sorted by when they open. Times are local to each water.

Index Water Major Minor Sunrise
5 Hatteras NC 2:07 AM–4:07 AM 8:31 AM–9:31 AM 6:11 AM
8 Salmon River NY 2:08 AM–4:08 AM 8:26 AM–9:26 AM 5:53 AM
8 Rocky River NC 2:22 AM–4:22 AM 8:46 AM–9:46 AM 6:25 AM
8 Lake Hartwell GA 2:36 AM–4:36 AM 9:01 AM–10:01 AM 6:41 AM
8 Lake St. Clair MI 2:37 AM–4:37 AM 8:56 AM–9:56 AM 6:23 AM
8 Lake Lanier GA 2:41 AM–4:41 AM 9:06 AM–10:06 AM 6:47 AM
7 Lake Guntersville AL 1:51 AM–3:51 AM 8:16 AM–9:16 AM 5:56 AM
5 Rainy Lake MN 2:20 AM–4:20 AM 8:35 AM–9:35 AM 5:48 AM
6 Sam Rayburn Reservoir TX 2:23 AM–4:23 AM 8:50 AM–9:50 AM 6:33 AM
5 Galveston TX 2:26 AM–4:26 AM 8:54 AM–9:54 AM 6:39 AM
7 Lake Palestine TX 2:28 AM–4:28 AM 8:55 AM–9:55 AM 6:37 AM
6 Lake Conroe TX 2:29 AM–4:29 AM 8:56 AM–9:56 AM 6:40 AM
6 Lake Tawakoni TX 2:30 AM–4:30 AM 8:56 AM–9:56 AM 6:37 AM
5 Lake Texoma TX 2:33 AM–4:33 AM 8:58 AM–9:58 AM 6:37 AM
5 Rockport TX 2:35 AM–4:35 AM 9:04 AM–10:04 AM 6:50 AM
4 Port Aransas TX 2:35 AM–4:35 AM 9:04 AM–10:04 AM 6:51 AM
5 Ute Lake NM 2:01 AM–4:01 AM 8:26 AM–9:26 AM 6:02 AM
7 Deckers CO 2:09 AM–4:09 AM 8:31 AM–9:31 AM 6:01 AM
6 Clear Creek CO 2:09 AM–4:09 AM 8:31 AM–9:31 AM 6:00 AM
6 Dream Stream CO 2:10 AM–4:10 AM 8:33 AM–9:33 AM 6:03 AM
7 Eagle River CO 2:13 AM–4:13 AM 8:36 AM–9:36 AM 6:05 AM
8 Bighorn River MT 2:19 AM–4:19 AM 8:38 AM–9:38 AM 5:55 AM
7 Gallatin River MT 2:33 AM–4:33 AM 8:52 AM–9:52 AM 6:09 AM
7 Madison River MT 2:35 AM–4:35 AM 8:55 AM–9:55 AM 6:11 AM

Recalculated August 1, 2026.

What a major actually is

Solunar theory holds that fish feed hardest when the moon is directly overhead or directly underfoot. Those two moments are the majors, and we treat each as a two-hour window centred on the event. Moonrise and moonset are the minors, one hour each.

We compute the moon and sun positions ourselves rather than pulling them from a service, and the calculation is checked against the US Naval Observatory before every build. It agrees to within a minute.

Worth saying plainly: solunar timing is an angling rule of thumb with a long history, not a measured quantity like water temperature. That's why it's one input into the bite index rather than the whole thing — pressure trend, water movement and temperature carry weight too, and the water pages show which of those were available.

The windows that beat the windows

When a major lands on first or last light, that's the stretch worth setting an alarm for. The two effects stack, and it shows in the hourly curve on every water page.

Christoph Ballmer, who builds and checks howsthebite

Christoph Ballmer Builds and checks howsthebite