Best Time to Fish
The best fishing times, scored for your water.
TackleIQ blends solunar timing with live weather into a single fishing forecast score — one number that tells you when the bite window opens where you fish.
Best Time to Fish
TackleIQ blends solunar timing with live weather into a single fishing forecast score — one number that tells you when the bite window opens where you fish.
Beyond the Moon Table
Solunar calendars have guided anglers for nearly a century, and the feeding windows they predict are real enough that they're printed in every fishing almanac. But a moon table is the same for every angler on the continent — it doesn't know a cold front just rolled through your county, that the pressure's been falling all morning, or that the wind is about to switch. The best fishing times aren't just lunar. They're lunar plus whatever the sky is doing right now.
How It Works
The dial shows today's major and minor feeding periods where you fish.
TackleIQ layers real-time weather over the solunar baseline — the same conditions data that drives its lure recommendations.
Everything rolls up into a single fishing score, so "should I go now or after lunch?" gets a straight answer.
When Meets What
A forecast site can tell you the bite might turn on at 6:40. It can't tell you what to tie on when it does. Because TackleIQ already knows the conditions driving the forecast — and knows what's in your tackle box — the best-time window comes with the answer to the next question built in: what to throw.
Log your catches and the picture sharpens further: every catch is stamped with GPS and the weather at that moment, building your own private record of when your water actually turns on.
FAQ
TackleIQ combines the solunar baseline for your location — major and minor feeding windows — with live weather conditions, and rolls them into one composite score for right now and the hours ahead.
Anglers have fished by solunar tables for close to a hundred years, and the theory's feeding windows line up with when many species are most active. TackleIQ treats solunar as a starting point, not gospel — live weather can open or shut a window the moon table alone would miss.
The forecast is built for your location — the solunar windows and weather are pulled for where you actually fish, not a regional average.
TackleIQ is free to download, and best-time-to-fish insights are part of TackleIQ Pro — $6.99/month or $39.99/year, both with a 7-day free trial.
A solunar table gives everyone the same calendar. TackleIQ personalizes it — your location, live weather layered on top, one composite score instead of four windows to interpret, and lure recommendations from your own tackle when the window opens.
