Clear blue bird sky

I am a recent convert from the bass fishing world to the crappie world and have a question. In bass fishing I have always found that blue bird clear days, after a front passes, make the bass fishing very tough. Does the same hold true for crappie fishing? How do the fish react under these conditions?

Thanks for the advice.

Charlie

Yes to me it holds true. You can catch a few if you fish very deep and very sloooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww! from what I have found anyway.

I find that crappie fishing is always tough......sometimes I get lucky....and yes, to bluebird days.....

Seems the nicest days where I feel the best...the fish just aren't biting. On cloudy, misty, breezy days, people post about great catches. I'm starting to think cold overcast is the only way to go....

Yesterday was a crappie bummer and I blame it on the high barometer reading. Super blue sky day after a winter front. Too nice to stay home, but finished early. There was hardly anything going on out there. A couple of little bass, one small sac, and a little gar.

I know the local marsh that I like to fish (for bass mostly) I can catch a limit of bass in a couple to three hours, sometimes quicker, on a cloudy, rainy, miserable day but if it is a sunny day I don't seem to do as well.

Fishing south Verret in the late 80's the wind and rain was so bad we were breaking tree branches trying to hold on to the snags but we kept fishing because they were biting everywhere. The biggest sac a lait was 2.4 then a 2.2 and a 1.15 oz were all caught in the worst part of the storm, along with plenty other hogs that day. When we got back to the landing we found out that a tornado hit Pierre Part (north side of the lake) that day. Barometric pressure had dropped to around 27". We didn't know how bad it really was because it was really good!

Just to confirm this theory I fished Ivan Lake this morning. Clear blue skies, barometer high and rising, light wind from the east, lake level high....caught two crappie and nothing else. Nobody I talked to was doing any better.

Thanks for testing RMG! :)

I bet that was hard work George, being out on a day like today : ).