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how barometric pressure affects fishing | Category: Fishing Talk

markt 10 years ago
#2303

A fishingreminder member sent me an email with some nice infos on barometric pressure and how it affects fishing.

Words of Wisdom:
Wind from the north, may as well go forth; wind from the south, fish open their mouth; wind from the west, fish bite the best; wind from the east, fish bite the least.


High Pressure

Typical Weather: Clear skies
Fishing Trends: Fish slow down, find cover or go to deeper waters.
Suggested Tactics: Slow down lures and use baits more attractive to fish. Fish in cover and in deeper waters.

Rising Pressure

Typical Weather: Clearing or improving
Fishing Trends: Fish tend to become slightly more active
Suggested Tactics: Fish with brighter lures and near cover. Also fish at intermediate and deeper depths.


Normal and Stable Pressure

Typical Weather: Fair
Fishing Trends: Typical Weather: Normal fishing
Suggested Tactics: Experiment with your favorite baits and lures.


Falling Pressure

Typical Weather: Degrading
Fishing Trends: Most active fishing
Suggested Tactics: Speed up lures. Surface and shallow running lures may work well.


Slightly Lower Pressure

Typical Weather: Usually cloudy
Fishing Trends: Many fish will head away from cover and seek shallower waters. Some fish will become more aggressive.
Suggested Tactics: Use shallow running lures at a moderate speed.


Low Pressure

Typical Weather: Rainy and stormy
Fishing Trends: Fish will tend to become less active the longer this period remains.
Suggested Tactics: As the action subsides, try fishing at deeper depths.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
mbrennan11 10 years ago
#2310

Great advice
Thanks

Jouza 10 years ago
#2341

What a good Remarque. Great
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jonboat315 10 years ago
#2439

Another weather related bit is cold fronts. Just before a cold front moves in, the fish tend to feed heavily. As the front moves through, they start shutting down and generally it will take a day or two after the front moves through for them to get active again.

This, with the info above regarding barometric pressure go well together to help decide if it's worthwhile to hit the water for fishing vs. catching. For me, I fish to de-stress, so if I don't catch anything, it is still a worthwhile trip.

CaptainRubberfist 9 years ago
#2847

Hey bud, is that N,S,E & W poem for northern hemisphere or southern?
I notice the fidh seem to be aware of approsching storms (dropping pressure?) and feed hard after it clears.. is that just hunger from taking a battering in storm?
Cheers Tommo

jonboat315 9 years ago
#2851

Here in NY, we learned it a little differently.
Wind from the west, fish bite the best, wind from the south blows your bait in their mouth, wind from the east, fish bite the least. Wind from the north, only fools venture forth.

I'm guessing that wind from the west translates to prevailing winds at your latitude. This would often be fair weather and high pressure. North, in my case is where cold air comes from and cold fronts tend to give our fish lock jaw. As for east biting least, that translates to opposite the prevailing winds at your latitude.

As for how winds really play... I've not seen the poem hold true. Barometric pressure, along with moon phase, frontal boundaries, and tides in marine areas, however, have shown pretty noticeable differences for my fishing success. My best day fishing for walleye in years, had an18 mph east wind with 4 ft waves on Oneida Lake.