FISHING CALENDAR
Frequently Asked Questions
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Why
are there sometimes discrepancies in the ratings on the Calendar screen and the
database?
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How
do I set Fishing Calendar to a particular location?
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What
does ‘Use Major1 Ratings’ mean?
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How
does the Day of the Year Fishing Log work?
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How
do I interpret the feeding periods?
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Why
do some months show two days of perigee?
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Why
do you include an alternate rating system?
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Why
do some times show up in color under the Majors and Minors frames?
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Why
do some time slots show up as X’s instead of actual times?
Q. Why are there
sometimes discrepancies in the ratings on the Calendar screen and the database?
A. The Db is a tool for looking ahead and doing searches
The Db is constructed using
the location that the Main Calendar is set to.
If the location of the Main Calendar is different from that which was
used in creating the Db then there will be differences.
The Db is created with the option ‘Use Major1 Ratings’ turned on. If the Main Calendar does not have this
option turned on at the time of comparison there will be differences.
The Db stores data for an
entire year and sometimes daylight savings time/standard time settings may play
a part.
If there is a discrepancy
between the two – the correct data is always that which is on the Main
Calendar. This data is calculated on the
‘fly’ each time a month is changed.
Q. How do I set
Fishing Calendar to a particular location?
Select locations from the
main menu. Choose ‘Edit a Location’
For most areas in the
If there is a small
difference in latitude/longitude that you wish to change you may edit the Db,
though this is not recommended.
To add a location (outside of
US) simply edit one of the existing locations and change the Location name, the
longitude, latitude and the time zone with correct data and click ‘Make
Default’ or not and then click ‘Done.’
Q. What does ‘Use
Major1 Ratings’ mean?
With this option not chosen,
Fishing Calendar calculates the rating for a particular day based upon criteria
for the entire day with no weight given to when the Major1 feeding time occurs.
With this option chosen,
Fishing Calendar first calculates the same as above but then adds weight when
the Major1 feeding period occurs during a natural feeding period. We consider natural feeding periods to be in
the morning, in the evening, and to a lesser degree at
What this means is that if
you fish during the Major1 feeding period there is a higher rating for that day
during that time than if you fish at other times during that day.
This reason for this option
is that when set, it is time consuming to make all the checks necessary and
makes moving from month to month slow.
There will be times when a user will simply desire to get lunar event
information and will want to move from month to month quickly.
Q. How does the Day
of the Year Fishing Log work?
The Db holds 366 records each
corresponding to a day of the year.
Because of leap years the dates will vary with non-leap years. After February 28 the dates will be off one,
but the Day of the Year will remain consistent until the 366th
record.
Q. Why does the
moon illumination percentage change after several seconds when the current date
is selected?
Fishing Calendar gives the
moon picture and illumination percentage for 12:00 PM when a calendar date is
clicked. When it is the current date,
after several seconds it changes the data to represent the current time as read
from the computer’s clock.
Q. How do I
interpret the feeding periods?
If a feeding period is shown
as being at
Q. Why do some
months show two days of perigee?
Perigee is the time during
the cycle of the moon when it is closest to the earth. Moon cycles do not exactly coincide with the
months. If there is a perigee at the
first of the month and at the last of the month, the second is on a new cycle.
Q. Why do you
include an alternate rating system?
The times of the day when the
moon affects feeding is derived from fairly basic formulas. There is not a lot of disagreement on when
the moon will be where on a certain date.
However when it comes to selecting the best fishing days of the month,
everybody has their own opinion. The
rating system is included so that those who through experience know what phases
of the moon should be favored, can customize it to their liking. The rating system shows how we rate
days. Most agree that during full moon
and during new moon fishing improves.
But many choose the light of the full moon over the darkness of the new
moon. We slightly favor the new moon because
the moon and the sun track together in the sky during the day of new moon.
Q. Why do some
times show up in color under the Majors and Minors frames?
This is an attempt to alert the user that this feeding
period occurs near dawn or dusk.
Q. Why do some time
slots show up as X’s instead of actual times?
That event did not occur on
the selected date. For the Major1 period
the time is extrapolated by taking the previous and the next occurrence of that
event and selecting a midway point.