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B of on housework or running errands.

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Best Fishing Days, 2000 (and other fishing lore from the

The Old Farmer's Almanac)

files of

best fishing times are

Probably the

when

the

ocean tides are restless before their turn and in the first hour of ebbing. All fish in all waters

—

salt

and fresh

The

—

feed most heavily at those times.

best temperatures for fish species vary

widely, of course, and are chiefly important are going to

have your

brook trout are 45°

more

own

The

fishpond.

if

you

best temperatures for

65° F. Brown trout and rainbow trout are

to

tolerant of higher temperatures.

Smallmouth black bass do

Homed pout take what they find.

best in cool water.

Most of us go fishing when we can get time off, not because

One hour before and one

When the

breeze

is

from

hour after high tides, and one

a westerly quarter rather

hour before and one hour

than from the north or east.

ter low tides. (The

af-

times of

San Francisco are given on pages 00-00; also see pages 000-000. Inhigh tides for

it is

But there are best times:

the best time.

When

the water

What People Fish for Most (freshwater) Bass

35%

Trout

18%

Catfish

11%

is still

or rippled, rather than during a wind.

land, the times for high tides

correspond with the times the

Moon

is

due south. Low

tides are halfway

between

Starting on the day the

Moon

is

new and

continuing

All

species

9%

Bream

6%

Crappie

6%

j

through the day

it

is full.

high tides.)

.

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During

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rise" (after

and the hour or so

Moon Between New & Full, 2000

pike/shad/steelhead/

January 6-20

after).

February 5-19

When

the barometer

steady or on the course, even

is

rise. (But, of

in

driving northeaster, the fish

ing Their hunger clock keeps right on working, and the smart fisherman will find

something they want.)

of

flies

May 3-18 June 2-16 July 1-16

July

30-August 14

August 29-September 13

is

a hatch flies

or

commonly. (The fisherman will have to match the hatching flies with his fly, or go fishless.

30

4-18

September 27-0ctober 13 there

— caddis

mayflies,

April

a three-day

aren't going to give up feed-

When

March 5-19

October 27-November 11

November 25-December 11

December 25-31

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Use

these

two Key Letter columns

to

calculate the sunrise/sunset times for

of day for your city,

first

calculate the sunrise

and sunset times for your

locality,

following

localities other than

San Francisco. Each

the procedure outlined in #1 next, convert the

sunrise/sunset time

assigned a Key Letter

time of sunset to 24-hour clock time by adding

given in the Time

12 hours; then subtract the time of sunrise.

whose value

in

is

minutes

is

Corrections table on page 234.

your city, or the

;

EXAMPLE:

Simply find

city nearest you, in the table,

and add or subtract those minutes to San

Sunset, Casper, Wyoming, Nov.

1

5:00

12:00

Convert to 24-hour clock time

Francisco's sunrise or sunset time.

17:00

EXAMPLE: To

New

find the time of sunrise in Carlsbad,

Mexico, on November

1,

San Francisco, with Key Letter D (above)

Sunrise,

Value of Key Letter Carlsbad

(p.

D

the

a.m.,

19 minutes a.m.,

MST

determine the

time of sunset.

HThis column gives the amount of time the

Sun

will be

above the horizon

in

San Francisco each day. To determine the length

40

22

-

6:38

10:22

min.) is

designed to

change sundial time to clock time

6:16 to

hr.,

OThe Sun Fast column

PST

234)

same procedure

Length of day, Casper, Nov. 1

(10

1999:

6:35 -

for

Sunrise, Carlsbad

Use

Subtract sunrise, Casper, Nov. 1

in

San Francisco. A sundial reads natural, or Sun, time, which is neither Standard nor Daylight time except by coincidence. Simply subtract the minutes given in the Sun Fast column (except where the number is preceded by an asterisk [*], in which case the time should be added) to get San Francisco clock time, and use

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Key Letter C in the

2000

EXAMPLE:

Time Corrections table on page 234 to convert

To determine

the time to your city.

EXAMPLE: To change

Astoria, Oregon,

sundial time into clock time

in San Francisco, or Boise, Idaho, on vember 1, 1999: Sundial reading, Nov.

No-

Subtract Sun Fast

(p.

12:05

B (p. 40) Value of Key Letter B

-

40)

7 minutes

-

a.m.,

PST

7 minutes

234) minutes

Correction for Astoria longitude 123° 49'

11:58

Moonrise, Astoria

11:53

a.m.,

in

with Key Letter

12:00 noon

1

Clock time, San Franciscc Use Key Letter C for Boise (p.

Moonrise. San Francisco,

for Astoria (p.

(San Francisco or Boise)

the time of moonrise on November 1, 1999:

p.m.,

PST

PST

* 34 minutes

Use

same procedure

the

determine the

to

time of moonset.

234)

12:27

Clock time, Boise

p.m.,

MST

This column gives the degrees and minutes of the Sun from the celestial equator

at

noon.

PST or PDT.

OThe High Tide column gives the times of daily high tides in San Francisco For example, on November I the first high tide occurs at 7:00 a.m. and the second occur? ,

QThe Moon's place

astronomical,

(A dash under High Tide indicates on or after midnight and so is recorded on the next day.) Because of great variations in West Coast tides, no one

Moon's

location can be used as a mean. Twice- weekly

explained on page 170. ) All calculations in

times and heights of high tides at San Diego

this

and Seattle are provided on page 240=

astrology, except for the information on

at

6:00 p.m.

is its

or actual, placement in the heavens.

that high water occurs

(This should not be confused with the astrological place in the zodiac, as

Almanac

are based

on astronomy, not

pages 167-170.

DUse these two Key Letter columns to

In addition to the 12 constellations of the

calculate the moonrise/moonset times

astronomical zodiac, five other abbrevia-

for localities other than

San Francisco. (A

may

tions

appear in

this

column: Auriga

dash indicates that moonrise/moonset occurs

(AUR), a northern constellation between

on or after midnight and so is recorded on the next day.) Use the same procedure as explained in #1 for calculating your moonrise/ moonset time, then factor in an additional correction based on longitude (see table below). For the longitude of your city, see page 234.

Perseus and Gemini: Cetus (CET), which

lies

south of the zodiac, just south of Pisces and Aries;

Ophiuchus (0PH), a constellation pri-

marily north of the zodiac but with a small

corner between Scorpius and Sagittarius;

Orion

(0RI), a constellation

whose northern

rus

between Tauand Gemini; and Sextans (SEX), which

lies

south of the zodiac except for a corner

limit first reaches the zodiac

Longitude of city 58° -

76°

77° -

89°

90° - 102 c

103° - 115°

Correction minutes

-4 -3 -2 -1

116° - 127°

2000

that just touches

BThe previous

128° - 141°

+1

142° - 155°

+2

last

which

it

near Leo.

column gives the Moon's age, the number of days since the

is

new Moon. (The

of the lunar month

is

average length

29.53 days.)

(continued on next page.i

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Bright Stars, 2000 The upper table shows the time (PST or

PDT)

that

(i.e., lies

directly

meridian

star transits the

above the horizon's south

San Francisco, and the

point) at titude

each

star's al-

above that point at transit on the dates

shown. The time of transit on any other date

differs

from that of the nearest date listed by

approximately four minutes for each day.

To

find the time of the star's transit for a location other than

time

at

San Francisco, convert

the

San Francisco using Key Letter C for

that location. (See footnote.)

Time of Transit (PST/PDT) Boldface -p.m. Ughtface-A.M.

A t j* ude |

Constellation Magnitude

Star

Jan,

1

Mar. 1

May 1

July

1

Altair

Aquila

0.8

1:16

9:20

6:20

2:21

Deneb

Cygnus

1.3

2:07

10:11

7:11

3:11

Fomalhaut

Psc. Aus.

1.2

Perseus

2.2

Taurus Orion Auriga Orion Orion Can. Maj. Can. Min.

0.9

4:22 8:32 10:00 10:38

12:26 4:36 6:04 6:42

9:26

Algol Aldebaran

3:04

5:26 9:37 11:04

3:42

11:42

6:44

3:44

11:44

6:53

3:53

11:53

7:23

4:23

0.4

10:40 10:49 11:19 12:12 1:06

1.2

Rigel

Capella Bellatrix

Betelgeuse Sirius

Procyon

0.1 0.1

Regulus

10:13 11:04

1

(degrees)

5:13

60.9

6:04

97.4

1:22

8:18

22.4

5:33 7:00 7:39

12:33

93.1

2:00 2:39

44.0

7:40 7:49

2:41

98.2 59.6 57.5

68.7

8:12

5:13

12:23 1:13

9:09

9:06

6:06

2:07

10:03

5:03

1:12

9:12

6:12

2:13

10:09

5:09

80.3

1.4

3:35

11:35 2:55 3:46

8:35

12:32 3:48

12:43

8:43

4:39

7:32 10:48 11:39

64.3

11:52

4:36 7:52

2:59

10:56

6:52

1:52

25.9

5:07

1:07

8:59

3:59

91.0

var. 0.4

-1.4

Virgo Bootes

var. 1.0

6:51

Arcturus

-0.1

7:42

Antares

Scorpius

var. 0.9

9:55

Vega

Lyra

0.0

12:03

Spica

Nov.

2:50 3:19 4:09

1.6

Gemini Leo

Pollux

1:37

Sept. 1

5:59 8:07

8:19

58.6 35.6

41.2 71.5

Risings and Settings To find the times of the star' s rising and setting at

San Francisco on any

the interval

shown to

date, apply

on that date. Subtract the interval for the star's rising; add it for its setting. To find the times for a location other than San Francisco, convert the times at

footnote.) rise

and

Key

San Fran-

The directions in which the stars shown for San Francisco, are

set,

Deneb, Algol, Capella, and Vega

are circumpolar stars

—

this

means

that

Rising

Interval

Star

(h.m.)

Key

Dir.

6:30

C

EbN

Fomalhaut 4:18

SE

ENE

Altair

Aldebaran

6:55

E B

Rigel

5:37

D

EbS

Bellatrix

6:23

Betelgeuse 6:26

C C

Sirius

5:09

E

Procyon

6:20

C

EbN EbN ESE EbN

Pollux

7:42

A NE

Regulus

6:41

B

Spica

5:29

Arcturus

7:07

D EbS A ENE

Antares

4:33

E

Letter shown. (See

generally useful throughout the United States.

above the horizon.

the time of the star's

transit

cisco using the

they do not appear to rise or set but stay

EbN

SEbE

Setting

Key

Dir.

D WbN A SW E WNW C WbS

D WbN D WbN B

WSW

D WbN E

NW

D WbN B WbS E

WNW

A SWbW

NOTE: The values of Key Letters are given Time Corrections table (page 234).

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