Arkansas Best Fishing Times Today

The idea behind these Arkansas times goes back to John Alden Knight’s solunar tables of 1926. A major period runs about 2 hours around the moment the moon crosses overhead or passes underfoot, and a minor period about 1 hour around moonrise or moonset. Treat them as a traditional guide rather than a promise; on Arkansas water a cold front or muddy runoff matters more.

Over Arkansas, moon times shift about 50 minutes later each day, so a major period that falls at dawn this week lands mid-morning next week. The 7-day row shows when one lines up with sunrise or sunset, the hours many Arkansas anglers already favour.

Traditional tables give their best ratings to days near a new or full moon, so each Arkansas card also carries the phase and how much of the moon is lit.

All 75 counties keep Central time. On the June solstice the first Arkansas sunrise comes in Clay County at 5:45 a.m. and the last in Little River County at 6:08 a.m., a 23 minute spread on the clock.

Around Little Rock daylight lasts 14 hours 29 minutes on the June solstice and 9 hours 49 minutes on the December solstice, so the same solunar period can fall in daylight in summer and in the dark in winter. From Fulton County in the north to Union County in the south the county centres are 3.2 degrees of latitude apart; on June 21 that is 14 hours 39 minutes of daylight against 14 hours 21 minutes.