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Post by prodigal on Jan 14, 2015 11:28:35 GMT -5
Every person has their own experiences to look back on and therefore make an educated assessment of the pros and cons. Many of you guys are much more knowledgeable than me on the "scientific" aspect of it all. The only thing I can do is go by what I have seen and done myself. Having fished SML since the 70s and wading the New River all of my life as well, I can say with %100 certainty that fish feed better with an "approaching" storm. Now what the reasons are for it, I have no idea!! I just wish someone would make something we could drop in the water and fool the fish into thinking it was coming a frog strangler!!!
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Post by Gator on Jan 14, 2015 11:39:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 11:51:04 GMT -5
Keep in mind that a change of 6 inHg is an impossible event. Additionally, pressure doesn't drop in an instant. A typical change in pressure during the course of a major... Major storm would be more like 2 inHg which is approximately 2 feet of water. Finally, if the fish wanted to adjust to lower air pressure they would move down in the water column. It seems to me that fish are more equipped to deal with pressure than we are. Right? I don't know about you, but my tummy doesn't ache when a storm approaches or after it arrives. However, if you go to the grocery store before an approaching storm you will notice that more milk and bread are being bought. I always love the winter-time threads when everyone is house-bound, itchin' to be fishin' Spot on my man. Last year we had a real good thread erupt that satisfied my itch for a week or so. That was fun!
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 18, 2015 21:36:57 GMT -5
Found this interesting today...... on Saturday the bite sucked... blue-bird skies - high pressure. At the M&G, ValleyThunder made the comment on how the pressure was supposed to be dropping during the day on Sunday. I got out late and drug bait from around 10:30 till 2 or so.... I had one hit on a board all morning - and did have a number of larger marks on the sonar, so there were some fish around. About 1, or maybe more like 1:30 some fish turned on - missed one, then had at triple (downline then two boards when I had the boat stopped) - and picked up one more after that before I quit..... Interestingly, the pressure bottomed out just as the fish turned on..... StripedYam got in on the action and picked up a few after I left as the pressure was rising from its bottom and the winds picking up to a gale......
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 13:13:28 GMT -5
Well I can tell you that I run and gunned yesterday and didn't catch anything other than when I finally gave in and went back to the same location as the day before. I saw more stripers in a few of the creeks that I wasn't catching them than I did the creek I was catching them. Higher water temps, lower temps...NADA! It just seems that creek was on! Why? NO CLUE!
But I do know that I was catching them on the rise in pressure.
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