During Hannon’s time bass fishing the vast majority of DD were caught by guides using Golden Shiners during the spawn cycle. Mid day big bass move under grass mats and the guides used Shiners under a float along the grass edges. The 70’s to 90’s was a catch & kill time for the guides looking to make additional tip $$. Doug Hannon was a good influence for C & R helping Sure Life develop livewell additives like Catch & Realse.

Summer is by far the highest boating time period and statistically the lowest seasonal period to catch big bass mid day. Lots of factors to consider making 10-2 the high % time period to catch big bass. 

My personal high % time was pre spawn before 10A catching over 90% of my giant bass at the seasonal and time period.

Each to his own statistics.

Tom

This whole topic on time of day related to what can be caught or what hits is interesting and a lot of good points have already been made. With my 2 cents, I'll toss in another theory.

I tend to think of it more as "opportunities" regardless of time of day. Huh? Let me try to explain lol 

 

Each day of fishing can be segmented into various opportune movements, or flurries, if you will, related to temperature, wind, light, etc. For example, it can be high noon with a stagnant-like water with zero bites and then, out of nowhere, a flurry of wind suddenly ****** the water into a myriad display of diamond like ripples. Suddenly, that big girl slams the lure! I've witnessed moments like this throughout a day which have nothing to do with time of day but more to do with the conditions at a particular moment during a day. It can be the wind, a sudden flurry that pops out of nowhere like I mentioned, or a big puffy cloud passing overhead, or a temperature flux, a front, a fog drift, a storm brewing in the distance, bait movement, birds diving...a host of things. A host of things, day or night, I've seen it like this all the way around. So I tend to look at each day--no matter the time of day--as having great fishing opportunities. The key is in being prepared and positioned to take advantage of those opportunities. 

 

 

My PB was caught around 11 A.M. # 2 was caught around 1 pm. The next 3 were all caught in mid afternoon. Ive only caught 1 fish over 7 before 10 a.m. Strangely enough, the biggest bass I can remember catching after 4 pm was 6.3. And that’s probably when I fish the most… Now I have caught twice as many fish then as the other times, including plenty of 4-6 pounders, just not the biggest fish. Go figure…