Thread: Barometric Pressure

Ive been told by a member on here and I agree. The bigger the crappie the more it affects it

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I usually look at the weather forecast to pick a day when temperature, rain chances and wind speed are all acceptable. I have never wanted to consider another element like barometer projection or fishing times chart. That said, a few years ago I did check fishing times charts after I went fishing. I rarely found that the charts fit what I had experienced actually fishing.

One thing that crossed my mind when I was driving home from work each day was that I passed thru the same park each day about 2:45 PM and some days you would not see a squirrel and other days there were squirrels on the ground running all over the place. I always wondered if what ever triggered the squirrels to get active at the same time might translate to fish being active at the same time. I never had fishable water close enough to check it out.

Jack Gp

I think Barometric Pressure is a factor. High pressure days often are blue bird skies and no wind. Deer hunt? Same deal. Fish and most wildlife get just as aggravated by these kind of days as most humans.

That doesn't mean you can't catch fish but you'll likely fish harder with long periods of no fish. Least that's the way I've experienced these days over 50 yrs of fishing.

If one has to juggle work, family and cutting the grass, and I'm one of those, I don't think I'm going to stay home because it's a high pressure day. I'm looking for opportunities to go fishing not excuses to not fish.

hunt and ketch when ya can , some say I am just lucky , I say plan to be lucky and it will happen .
have I wasted countless hours in the field ,woods and on the water , might be so from the wrong perspective .
barometric pressure seems to change things dramatically one time and the next not so much .
not sure about who ,what or why , but to be sure there are those days .
the barometer is all "wrong thing " thing tends to be a reality , but >>>>>>
most of the time if there is the chance to go, I will opt for try to ketch something no matter the barometric conditions .

Originally Posted by BJH

is you first name Ben ?

Negative sir, Stuart


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I sure appreciate the insight. I think I was partially looking for an excuse for a bad day’s fishing lol! I enjoyed myself I just couldn’t get a dang thing to bite hardly and someone mentioned that to me so I had to look into it!


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I know the barometric pressure has to do with the swim bladder that fish have. Too much pressure on the bladder makes them uncomfortable. Being a scuba diver, I think the fish would just change depths....but they still have to eat.

I have heard tell the rise and fall effects shallow fish more than deep fish , might be so , never really went off to one depth or another because of the barometer myself .
my typical agenda is these here fish won't bite for diddly squat , let's go find some that will