Best Fishing Times: Almanac

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You drove two hours, launched before sunrise, and threw everything in the box at water that gave you nothing. Best Fishing Times tells you — before you go — which hours today the fish and game will actually be moving, so your one free morning lands when it counts. Solunar theory has run in printed almanacs for a century: fish and game feed hardest when the moon is directly overhead or underfoot, with a second push at moonrise and moonset. This app runs that math for your exact spot, on your phone, and lays the day out as windows you can plan around. You know the feeling. The weather app said nothing about the moon. Your buddy swears by mornings, your father-in-law swears by evenings, and both of them are guessing. You have one day off and a long drive, and no idea whether to leave at 4am or sleep in and go at dusk. Best Fishing Times takes that guesswork off your shoulders. TODAY — FREE, FOREVER • Every major and minor feeding window, with exact start and end times • A five-fish bite rating for the day, from Poor to Excellent • A live countdown — "feeding now, 40m left" or "next major feeding in 2h 15m" • A timeline of the whole day, with daylight, majors and minors laid over each other • Moon phase and illumination, plus sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset • Works with no signal — the math runs on your phone, not on a server YOUR SPOT, NOT YOUR CITY Feeding times shift with latitude and longitude. Tap Use My Location, or drop a pin anywhere on the map — a back lake, a bend in the river, the stand you sit every November. Prefer not to share location? Pin it yourself and never see the prompt. FISHING, HUNTING, OR BOTH Tell the app what you're out for and it follows. The same lunar windows drive deer movement, and the rut lands in the fall right as the fishing tails off. PRO — PLAN THE WHOLE WEEK • 14-day feeding calendar — majors, minors and a bite rating for every day, two weeks out • Feeding-time alerts — a heads-up 15, 30 or 60 minutes before each window, plus an optional morning forecast • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — today's rating and your next window at a glance • Saved spots — keep every lake, river and stand, and switch between them in a tap • Tide overlay — today's highs and lows beside the feeding times at US coastal spots BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Weekend anglers with one free morning and a long drive to justify • Bowhunters timing a sit for the rut • Guides and charter captains booking clients into the right hours • Ice fishermen who want the bite before the shack gets cold • Anyone who has stared at flat water wondering if they should have come at dusk NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING No account. No sign-up. No email address. The forecast is computed on your device from public-domain astronomy, so it works in a canyon with no bars. Your coordinates reach Apple only to put a name and a time zone on your spot — never a server of ours, and never NOAA. Nothing is tracked and nothing is sold. PRO SUBSCRIPTION Pro is available as a weekly or annual subscription, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period — manage or cancel yours any time in your Apple ID account settings. Today's feeding times stay free whether you subscribe or not. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Solunar tables tell you when fish and game are most likely to move. They have never promised anyone a full stringer, and neither do we. What they do is turn a wide-open day into three or four hours worth showing up for. Stop guessing which hours are worth the gas money. Check the windows before you go, and be there when they're feeding.