Fishing by the Moon
Many Pakeha, as well as Maori, swear by the efficacy of the Maori fishing calendar, in deciding when to fish. The Maori fishing calendar says that greater feeding activity occurs during low tide peaks rather than high tide, and that a full moon is a bad time to fish especially if there is a lot of phosphorescence on the water. It also says fish are much hungrier during a spring tide and just before a storm is about to break, that bigger fish catches are usually made during the day ‘peak period’ rather than the night one, and that ‘peak fishing’ doesn’t necessarily coincide with dawn, dusk, high or low tides.
Ken Ring is a mathematician with a passion for numbers. He is also a long-range weather forecaster whose month-ahead forecasting columns are syndicated throughout New Zealand, and are used by farmers, fishermen, pilots, travellers and all event organisers. Ring has taken the Maori fishing calendar one step further over his years of research, predicting the weather through lunar activity.
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