Occur when the moon is directly overhead or underfoot. These are the strongest feeding times of the day.
Minor Periods (1-2 hours)
Occur during moonrise and moonset. Secondary feeding windows that still offer good activity.
April 2026 Fishing Calendar
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1🌕B+
2🌕B
3🌕B+
4🌖B
5🌖B
6🌖B
7🌖C+
8🌗C+
9🌗C
10🌗C
11🌗C+
12🌘C+
13🌘C+
14🌘B
15🌘B+
16🌑B+
17🌑B+
18🌑B
19🌒B
20🌒B
21🌒B
22🌓C+
23🌓C+
24🌓C
25🌓C+
26🌔C+
27🌔B
28🌔B
29🌕B
30🌕B+
Best (A/A+)
Good (B/B+)
Fair (C/C+)
Poor (D/F)
Top 5 day
Grades rate solunar timing and moon phase for the whole US. Water temperature moves a fishing day more than the moon does and depends on where you fish.
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Spring Fishing Tips
Spring brings warming waters and pre-spawn activity. Fish move shallow to feed heavily. Focus on warming flats, creek channels, and areas with early vegetation. Morning bite improves as water temperatures rise.
Best Fishing Days in April 2026
The top-rated fishing days in April 2026 are April 16, April 30, April 17, April 1, April 3, ranked by solunar activity, moon phase, and the strength of each day's major and minor feeding periods. Those are the factors a national calendar can actually know. Water temperature moves a fishing grade far more than the moon does, and it depends entirely on where you fish, so enter your location for a full grade that adds water temperature, weather, and barometric pressure.
April brings the heaviest feeding of the spring. Shallow water warms fast, baitfish return to it, and pre-spawn fish eat aggressively to fuel the spawn ahead of them. Northern pike and walleye are often already spawning while bass are still staging, so the month rewards anyone willing to move between depths until they find which stage the local fish are in.
Want it on the boat or the fridge? This page doubles as a free printable fishing calendar for April 2026. Use the Print or Save as PDF button at the top and your browser produces a clean one-page PDF of the whole month, grades and moon phases included.
Lingcod, Pacific Halibut, Rockfish are recovering from the spawn in April. Expect a short lull before they return to normal feeding, and favour slower presentations near spawning flats.