Mine was mid morning,  which makes sense as I do all my fishing before noon. 

 

If I had to come up with my most productive hours, it'd be between 6 and 10am. 

In November, at Noon, bright sunny day, little wind, and tough fishing all morning.  11.4, Loxahatchee Florida.

February 28th 2014 around 5pm was my last cast before packing up for the day blue craw game hawg

Mine was around 11 a.m on Dec . 31st.

Very windy and warm . Mostly sunny sky. Caught on a  10 inch grape mann’s jelly worm. Caught it right against the bank in 3 f.o.w..

Im pretty sure it was a bedding fish, but didn’t see the bed when I cast. It was in a little pocket between cattails. I

I remember making a long, perfect cast and I think I said “ Bill Dance “ when it fell right where I wanted it to… It was also the only bite I had that morning..

I weighed it on 2 scales - one said 8 1/2 , the other said 9 . Taxidermist said 9 . Only fish I ever had mounted. 

 

1 hour ago, N Florida Mike said:

 Caught on a  10 inch grape mann’s jelly worm. Caught it right against the bank in 3 f.o.w..

 

I gotta start using those things more!

 

 

 

Mike

PB came in the afternoon, maybe early evening, not sure the exact time, but there are windows at all times of day depending on the body of water and time of year, and most of my biggest fish have come in the mid afternoon or evening into and beyond dusk. Ironically, early morning lags behind other times of day, not sure why.

July 23rd at 11:51 am! It was partly cloudy and I’d say around 78 or so degrees.

Lake Ray Roberts in Texas with a black and blue jig and the old fenwick telescoping flipping rod. Still have that rod

5 minutes ago, steve carpenter said:

Lake Ray Roberts in Texas with a black and blue jig and the old fenwick telescoping flipping rod. Still have that rod

Also Lake Ray Roberts. 

10:04pm, Christmas 2021

In the 80's and need that heavy rod because I was fishing in a forest

Mine was in september, overcast day, about 11AM. 6 ft of water, weedy bottom, got it on a chartreuse spinnerbait. Hit 4 ft from the boat.

4:35pm July 2. Cloudless skies, little windy, no clouds. By all accounts, absolutely worst time to catch anything.

 

Caught my PB bluegill that day, too. They loved the Panther Martin

LMB was mid morning on a 3.5" Paddle tail and flashy swimmer in April 2020. 

 

SMB was 18", around eleven am this June from a low, clear creek on an Owner Zip 'n Ziggy.

Late afternoon, all but one of my biggies (about 5 pounds). One came early at night. July and August. Two at a pond the rest on a lake.

May 9, 8:45 AM in a creek shortly after a lot of rain. Water was very muddy. I was trying a spot where a very small stream fed into the creek, and there was a blowdown right next to it. I threw a white spinnerbait right after the sun came out on what had been an overcast morning. She was only a couple feet from the bank and had apparently just come up to feed on stuff flowing out of the stream and was sitting under the blowdown waiting to ambush something. That spot is extremely high-pressured and I had never caught anything decent there before. I've cast in there hundreds of times since then. Nothing. But I'll keep on trying.

AM on a crappie minnow.

Largemouth 6:05 am.  
Smallmouth 5:10 am

Before I moved to Florida my pb was a 6 lb 8oz largemouth caught on a now drained section of the peconic river in eastern Long Island    It was caught on a spinner bait at 12 noon on June 21_st  the summer solstice    I’ll always believe that the date and time affected that bass  because  
I must have fished over him at least a hundred times before 

On 8/5/2022 at 5:47 PM, geo g said:

In November, at Noon, bright sunny day, little wind, and tough fishing all morning.  11.4, Loxahatchee Florida.

A lot of big bass caught around noon if you look at people response.

46 minutes ago, geo g said:

A lot of big bass caught around noon if you look at people response.

Which is fairly surprising down here.
I’d bet it has a lot to do with the different waters and of course seasons. 

My biggest fish on The Lake are mostly caught before 10:00, at least in the 3-5 areas I rotate through the most, which are all different at different times of the year. 

Seems the farther North I go (Stick, St Johns River, Kissimmee Chain, especially Toho) late morning to early afternoon is the sweet spot. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

 

My 10-2 theory is light penetration: Maximum either side of noon.

1 hour ago, geo g said:

A lot of big bass caught around noon if you look at people response.

And a good bit also in the mid-morning time frame. Like 8:30-9:30ish

 

Mine 3:54PM December 17th. There was some weather change that came through like 10min before. Clouds rolled in and there was a wind shift.

Stumbled on this video years ago and interestingly it echoes my personal experience and that of a lot of the posters itt.

 

 

"Right around noon"

 

                                          

Early March about 1pm and there was still ice on part of the lake.  LM 8.2LBS 24.5" on a solid black 1/2oz jig.

 

Allen