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Fishing has both great times and terrible times for catching a tasty, healthy dinner. And it also has both great and terrible times for you to reel in a fish, grin at it and say, “just kidding!” before you remove your hook and it swims off in a state of traumatized shock. The best times are typically during the summer and fall, which (as you probably guessed) means that the winter and spring are some of the worst times for getting those fish to… well, to do anything related to coming close enough to yank them from the water and eat them in the old tradition of deliciousness. Really, the classic rule is that when there is an extreme temperature, the fish are either resting because it is too cold to do much else, or hanging out in the deeper part of the water when it gets too hot in the shallow parts.
In the early parts of the day during the spring, the water is just too cool for the fish to want to do much of anything. In addition to that, the fish are stymied even more by the fact that the angle of the Sun makes the rays bounce right off of the water, not warming it to any significant extent. And while the fish are eating a lot during this time of the year during the later morning and early afternoon (on account of saving up their calories to spawn), they are still going to require you to carefully choose your spot.
Of course, just because the season is summer or fall does not mean that the fish are just going to jump into your boat all willy nilly. This just means that you will have more opportunities to catch them during certain times of the day. However, the rule about the extremes of temperature still apply. Therefore, during most of the morning and later afternoon of the fall, you are likely wasting your time. And during the summer, going fishing during the middle point in the day is a great way to catch absolutely nothing.
