Thread: Interesting Article - Barometric Pressure

http://www.weather.com/sports-recrea...meter-20120328

Originally Posted by "G"

http://www.weather.com/sports-recrea...meter-20120328

"G"....while "googling", I saw that article also.....read a bunch of different ones.....seems to be some conflicting opinions on the subject......I'm gonna stick to my tactics of just go when I can.....there are only 4 things you can do....shallow, deep, fast & slow.....I can do all that in 30 min........

Thats the spirit......at my age I am not going to miss a fishing trip on account of some dadgummed barometer

Thanks for posting. Have been trying to figure out if I had enough sense to understand this thing and I'm still not sure I do. I will keep reading and like y'all keep fishing. I've caught a bunch without understanding it.

Good article Bruce. The "principal theory" stated is what I have been thinking about with the water column hydrostatic pressure versus what a fish actually feels in atmospheric pressure differences. Haven't seen that in print before, just what I was thinking. Thanks for posting. Much more pronounced in salt water due to it being more denser. Any type of wave/rolling action in the water would make the atmospheric pressure negligible. The weather.com article G posted concerning the effect on the fish bladders I don't buy. Seems to me the barometric pressure effect on the fish is not the pressure itself, but the weather system involved.

Regardless, I'm like you Bruce and G - I'm going when I can. Thanks again for posting.

Originally Posted by prefers shiners

I'm gonna stick to my tactics of just go when I can.....there are only 4 things you can do....shallow, deep, fast & slow.....I can do all that in 30 min........

That's me too. I have a good barometer now that I inherited when my Mother died, but it's just something to watch. It's always right on the money with Channel 3 here. The main thing I watch is the day time high. Like a lizard I want 60^+ by noon.

now.....I am not fishing this week...so here I sit checking the weather and according to the research....these fish should settle into a pattern this week and not be moving around alot....so......when you find em...take pics of em.....whether you believe the barometer or not...I would rather fish on the falling pressure....just something neat about fishing then......

Well - Maybe its coincidence...but we fished all morning - while it was on the rise...didnt get a bite till 1pm...once it started to fall...I may start watching the pressure a little closer....not necessarily plan my trips around it, but just take some notes and see if there really is a pattern..