Pier time of day

generaly speaking, am I going to have a better chance at a bite at dusk or from noon-5 pm. Debating on when I should go down there.

If I could only fish for one hour in a day, my first choice would be a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after. My second choice for optimizing hour of fishing would be a half hour on each side of sunset. On any given day, either or both of those slots may not be the most productive or good at all, but the odds favor it overall. Beside that, if the fishing is poor all day, it's tough to beat a nice sunrise or sunset from the pier with mid-day heat.

My advice is to have your bait in the water at 5:30 am. If that's not possible and you only have the afternoon, I'd fish from 4 pm on ('till they stop biting). For me, it's just too doggone hot to fish in the midday sun!

OMI: Hour before sunrise until 1 hour after.
Or when the fish are biting, which ever hour that turns out to be. :)

Definitely not noon-3pm during July-August, unless you grew up on a tropical island on the equator. I was about exhausted yesterday after fighting that Jack in the 2pm sun.

I find the best time is either side of the tide change. Sounds like you have the time to pick and choose so I would definitely try to line it up with the high feeding times.
good luck!

All day.....or you'll miss it if and when it happens

What ever time you choose, make it while I'm not there. You will greatly increase your chances of catching fish. Every time I walk on the pier I hear, "You shouda been here----," or, "You left too early."

I hold the current Southeast Championship in shutting down bites.

For what it's worth...I'm in the middle of doing a correlation between the Solunar Tables that supposedly point out the best times to fish, the days and times I actually fish, and how much of what species I catch or don't. As of now, and granted the data is a little limited and for a a couple of small freshwater bodies of water, there is absolutely no relationship. I've caught a lot of fish when the tables say I shouldn't, and of course vice versa. My opinion, as it's always been, is the best time to go fishing is when you can...

My ole buddy Eldon (from Festus, MO) would tell me "They started biting right after you left. How come you didn't leave earlier?" LOL

Best advice I ever heard was "Go early, stay late and fish like all hell!"

Go whenever you can and stay as long as you can!