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.
March 2026 Fishing Calendar
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1🌔C+
2🌕C+
3🌕B
4🌕C+
5🌖C+
6🌖C
7🌖C
8🌖C
9🌗C
10🌗C+
11🌗D
12🌗D
13🌘C
14🌘C
15🌘C
16🌘C+
17🌑B
18🌑B
19🌑C+
20🌑C+
21🌒C+
22🌒C
23🌒C+
24🌓D
25🌓D
26🌓D
27🌔C
28🌔C
29🌔C
30🌔C+
31🌕C+
Best (A/A+)
Good (B/B+)
Fair (C/C+)
Poor (D/F)
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 March 2026
The top-rated fishing days in March 2026 are March 17, March 18, March 3, March 19, March 23, based on solunar activity, moon phases, and major/minor feeding periods. Each day in our free fishing almanac is graded from A+ (excellent) to F (poor) so you can plan your trips around peak fish activity.
Spring Fishing: 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.
What the Fish Are Doing in March
Pre-spawn (7 species)
Northern Pike, Black Sea Bass, Crappie, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Flounder feed hard before spawning in March, and our scoring raises their activity by up to 1.40x. Look for northern pike on marshy shallows 2-5 ft.
Spawning (1 species)
Rainbow Trout spawn during March. Fish on beds are harder to tempt, so our grades apply a spawn-lockout penalty. Target pre-spawn and post-spawn species instead, or fish deeper staging areas nearby. Some species appear in both lists because spawning runs across the month, with northern waters lagging southern ones by several weeks.