Barometric pressure effect?

Okay I would like to hear your thoughts on barometric pressure. Do you think it affects the crappie? Does it play any part if you go fishing?

DUNNO....lol....I can tell you today for instance I was tearing them big ole crappie up before the Low arrived and there wasn't any wind but as soon as it hit and the wind was howling in from the North they got the lock jaw and didn't get another bite..yes it was a Low Pressure front....Just Sayin so you make up your own mind......Ranger

Thanks Ranger! You know the older I get the more questions I seem to have!

hmmmm the older I get the more the RECLINER calls to me....lol.....Ranger

I have not fished for crappie very long, so take this with a grain of salt. Every time I have been on the water when a cold front passed, it has shut the bite off like hitting a switch. It also seems it takes a day or two after the front before the fishing gets back to the way it was before the front came through.

Had a cold front here in Mo about Thursday night, the day before and they were hitting like crazy, then a couple days after the front went through the bite slowed down, didn't shut down compeletly, but slowed quite a bit.....but the water temp dropped from 51 to 48, so maybe it is the water temp??

It is normal for the fishing to pick up approx 2 days after a front passes. I have been monitoring the barometric pressure effect on fishing for 20 yrs. When we have a front come in I will try to fish just before the front hits then wait 2-3 days for the pressure to stabilize.

I believe that the pressure effects the fishing in some ways. I know that pressure too high or too low makes them either quit biting or move from where we are fishing. But to say I determine my fishing trip on the pressure would be a mistake. I've been ask as a guide "When is the best time to go" I tell them "Whenever you can". We are not all retired and can pick and chose every beautiful day to fish out of the week, MARK! LOL! But I have caught them when its too hot,too cold, too wet, too dry etc. We forget sometimes that there are millions of fish in our lakes and they all do not do the same thing at the same time, bottom line is, go try it, you might be surprised and proven one more time that you know very little as a crappie fisherman. We are all humbed from time to time! EB

Thanks for the comments Fishers, Silverside and George!!!!

EB I know what you mean about the Retired guys!!!! Mark sure has it rough! I go every chance I get, like you said before, if I didn't go when it was windy I wouldn't get to fish! I have really made some progress on the crappie fishing, (not like you and Mark...) but I sure have a blast trying, and some days catching!

EB - I agree with you regarding the pressure effects on the fishing. I fished for smallmouth one day on Lake Murray with a very good and competent guide who specialized in smallies and we had 3 fronts come in that day. The guide busted his tailbone trying to put us on fish in all of his known spots with no luck. The 3 of us caught 3 fish the whole day. I quit after 5 hours w/o a hit. I did not discourage my fishing buddy but I told him my thoughts on the pressure. The guide kept telling us that they were going to turn on soon which they did not. I was not upset or mad at him because he was trying and of course trying to please. I told him some times you have Mother Nature stacking the deck against you. We caught 2 fish between 1:00PM and 5:00PM. The guide was apologizing for such a bad day, but I told him he did not need to apolgize for something he had no control over. We paid him plus a tip and went home. I would use and reccommend the man again. Yes, you can catch a few fish right after a front,but my experience is that 2-3 days afterwards the front has passed then the fishing picks back up and returns to "normal". I am not retired and get to go whenever I wish. I have to pick my days. Brian and Mark, I am NOT trying to argue with either of you just expressing my thoughts. I visited with Mark back in July about an upcoming trip to a family reunion at Tenkiller and he could not have been more helpful. So PLEASE do not take offense at my comments.