I'm new here too, but have been surf fishing northern nsw for the last few months and looking back, the days we did well coincide with the predictions. Yesterday was described as being a poor day and it was, three undesized rascals after four hours.

Hi Dec0004,

Welcome to Fishingreminder.

I have been a member here for about 5 years. I use the info every day. Even now that I am way out west of Wagga for the next year or so, it is still useful and helpful.

This site has been going for about 7 years. The last time Mark had stats publicly published, the site had 70,000 members. The last known page views per day (that I know of) was more than 5000. That is thousands of people coming to the site for info every day! The mobile Apps have been downloaded and installed on smart phones and tablets more than 100,000 times and might be as many as 500,000 times (half a million !!).

In the 5 years that I have been here I have read every single post made to the Forum...Every single one...Yes, I know, I need to get out more 😊 In all that time, with thousands of people, I have never seen anyone put forward any legitimate reason why the info does not work.

That is no good...fishing all day and not catching even one fish. But then again, the Fishingreminder rating for your area for the day was 'poor'. Coincidence ?? Maybe...maybe not ! 😊

Hi and welcome to the site everybody,

Hope the infos will be useful.

Many people swear by fishing times and people have been using sun, moon, tides and weather since ancient times to determine the bite times and best days to go fishing. 
As itsaboat said, we have many members who use the predicted bite times with great success.

Fishing during the most productive days and times can be a great time saver.

Just remember - fishing times and ratings alone wont guarantee your catches.
It's also just as important to know the behaviour of the species you're targeting and to actually find or attract the fish in the first place. If there is no fish around then even the best times won't help much.


cheers and happy fishing!

Yes , Since I started relying on this site I have caught more fish than going at it alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah...fishing's been crap...The predictor doesn't help at all.:D

looking forward to catching some fish with my 9 year old son on Saturday in Mobile Bay.

Its was supposed to be a poor day but went for fish anway a lennox head, away from recent flood water. Got into a school of dart before we got a feed of whiting and bream. Plenty of pipis which worked best but peeled prawn also effective. I still have trouble with peeling prawns for bait, if my kids couldn't peel prawns themselves they went hungry. 

Yes!!!!!!!!!!! This is an amazing website, you still have to know how to set the hook. I have had caught for fish consistently than with out. I recommend it to everyone I know.