Rather than sit them out, take advantage of the conditions they create. Considering that bass shun bright sunlight, you're apt to find better fishing on the windy side of a lake where the ripples break up light penetration. For the same reason, look for the fish to hang out on the windy side of a point instead of the calm, protected side. Poets have long associated the effect of the full moon on romance, and moon phases may also play a factor in fishing, too. These feeding periods, occurring in major and minor ways several times daily, are plotted on the Solunar Tables which appear in daily newspapers or on yearly calendars.
Moon phase is a hotly debated influence on fish behavior.
Some anglers do their heaviest fishing on the days just before the full moon, while other waits until the new moon. Proponents of each theory are usually dogmatic in their belief, based on personal experience, advice from guides or magazine articles, or regional folklore. From this discussion, it's apparent that spring and the full moon, factors the poets spent so much time writing about, are of equal or greater interest to fishermen who number in the millions. Fishing, along with tennis and golf, is right up there with our most popular participant sports.