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🌕B
2🌕B+
3🌕B
4🌕B+
5🌖B
6🌖C+
7🌖B
8🌖C+
9🌗C+
10🌗C+
11🌗C+
12🌗C+
13🌘C+
14🌘C+
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🌔C+
29🌔B
30🌔B
31🌕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 March 2026
The top-rated fishing days in March 2026 are March 2, March 31, March 4, March 19, March 20, 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.
March is ice-out and the beginning of serious pre-spawn movement. Fish stack on the first structure they meet between deep winter water and the shallow flats they are heading for, which makes creek mouths, channel bends and warming north-facing banks worth more than they will be all year. Conditions swing hard from week to week, so a good March day and a poor one can sit side by side.
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Peacock Bass, Rainbow Trout, Rockfish, Sheepshead, Steelhead 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.
Post-spawn recovery (2 species)
Lingcod, Pacific Halibut are recovering from the spawn in March. Expect a short lull before they return to normal feeding, and favour slower presentations near spawning flats.