Thread: Henderson Scratch......1/12/15

Hey PS,

So .. my thinking is that there is an direct link between barometric pressure and fish activity ..

So..what says you?

Originally Posted by jig rig

Hey PS,

So .. my thinking is that there is an direct link between barometric pressure and fish activity ..

So..what says you?

that's what I hear from a lot of folks.....but, quite frankly, I just don't know and I never have kept a diary of my trips.....even if I knew, I would never let BP stop me from going.....I just enjoy being out there.....something about seeing that cork go down.....

Originally Posted by jig rig

Hey PS,

So .. my thinking is that there is an direct link between barometric pressure and fish activity ..

So..what says you?

Absolutely

Originally Posted by jig rig

Hey PS,

So .. my thinking is that there is an direct link between barometric pressure and fish activity ..

So..what says you?

I'm thinking that barometer is a hard one to figure. I inherited one last July and have been watching it close. I had good trips around 30.4 which some say is too high. It's confusing on a nation wide forum when folks talk numbers that vary so much with altitude. Lafayette is 30.15 now Box Elder Montana has 27.05. That would be a bad storm here. I think it's just one of many factors and doubt if any number will keep me home if other things say go.

Water temp is another thing I don't worry about. My Humminbird just gives the surface and who knows what it is down where the fish are holding. It's just me, but I never look at that on my Hummer.

Originally Posted by jig rig

Hey PS,

So .. my thinking is that there is an direct link between barometric pressure and fish activity ..

So..what says you?

You know the trip right after new year I took in pigeon, I was documenting the weather in a fishing journal I started last week...I looked up a weather archive on one of Baton Rouge's news network websites. I couldn't buy a bite in the morning but I found em in a canal and did well after 1030 till about 130. I noticed on the weather archive a stark drop in the pressure at precisely 11:00 till 1:00 in Baton Rouge...so scientifically its impossible to say if I found the right area, or if the fish just went crazy for 2 hrs...or the more probable theory - a little of both...In my mind pressure definitely affects them....

Originally Posted by GONFISHN

You know the trip right after new year I took in pigeon, I was documenting the weather in a fishing journal I started last week...I looked up a weather archive on one of Baton Rouge's news network websites. I couldn't buy a bite in the morning but I found em in a canal and did well after 1030 till about 130. I noticed on the weather archive a stark drop in the pressure at precisely 11:00 till 1:00 in Baton Rouge...so scientifically its impossible to say if I found the right area, or if the fish just went crazy for 2 hrs...or the more probable theory - a little of both...In my mind pressure definitely affects them....

Yes GF, I remember. I also remember you not PMing which canal it was.

IMO

Simply stated, barometric pressure does not change quickly enough to magically turn the bite on or off. It certainly is one of the ingredients in the overall weather process, but temperature, cloud cover, wind direction and speed, and humidity can also affect fishing conditions. More importantly, the rate and amount of change in barometric pressure is insignificant compared to what’s going on below the surface.

It’s a happy notion that one could simply consult the mercury column each morning to know whether it’s a better day for work or fishing, but it’s unlikely that barometric pressure alone can trigger the sudden bite that angling’s common wisdom often asserts.

Originally Posted by jig rig

Yes GF, I remember. I also remember you not PMing which canal it was.

LOL

Originally Posted by jig rig

Hey PS,

So .. my thinking is that there is an direct link between barometric pressure and fish activity ..

So..what says you?

I have often wondered about such things. When I apply the math to it I think in terms of this:

1" Hg @ 32°F is 0.49 psi of atmospheric pressure difference

With a freshwater hydrostatic column at 3 ft., a fish experiences roughly 1.3 psi
If said fish moved to 12 ft., the pressure would be 5.2 psi

So, it appears to me, that atmospheric pressure has little do with how the fish feels, they would just move in the column of water that suits them. I am no biologist, so have no idea.

Can you send me the link?