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Today (Thurs) is the day before the front gets here. The front is suppose to pass on Fri and Sat. Sunday should be the first day after the front passes.
I know there are exceptions to every rule, but generally speaking, which day would be the best fishing day this weekend? I am thinking today and Sunday would be best, with Fri and Sat the worst.
Also will a passing front totally shut down the bite, or just slow it down?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
:dono
ID
It has always been my experience that fishing is best the day before and just before the front hits. In fact, sometimes the fishing is great just as the front arrives. Normally the fishing is much more difficult after a front departs. I've always noted that stable weather is best, doesn't matter what type of weather either, just stable.
I was going to ask the same question. I am headed to BM this weekend for the first time ever and was curious what it would do to the crappie. I believe in general that fronts move them deeper and tighter to structure? As well as slow down the bite some maybe? So, I am very curious as well. If you guys have to fish during the front (Fri or Sat) what tactics do you employ then? Not trying to high jack the thread hoping to add to it some.
Tight lines,
Brian
Thats an interesting question a buddy and I have been testing that type of theory off and on for about a year + we were last focused on the barometer just prior to rain (we even stayed and fished in the rain lol).... but not so much on frontal movements but we noticed fronts do affect the barometer but not as much as rain.
What we did find is the Barometer we bought (at BPS) would shift usually with-in the course of about half an hour some days 2 or three times but when the Barometer went from HIGH TO LOW is when we did best fishing.
(Not trying to mis-direct your thread)
It seem to fall along the same lines maybe you can use it somehow :twocents
vertical jigging my friend....bump structure hold still
That's it, slow, smaller baits with lots of color. My buddy used to call it the fancy jelly bean method. You know no matter even if you're stuffed with Thanksgiving dinner you can't walk by the bowl without finding out what that green one with the pink dots tastes like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Percidae_Papermouth
:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by Boscoe
how true
to me its hard to say. when you only get one day a week to fish you go no matter what. i'm like george i fish every weekend. to me its the winds that make it tuff. hey dean i'll be fishing sunday this weekend. heading to the lakes . tight lines JIM.B
I've noticed one thing, it doesn't seem to affect the river crappie at all.
fancy jelly bean method. Got to love it!! FULL moon this week end? I think I may try BM again. Humps, fish de humps. Them big crackers may still have the last dance.
What ya say bird man?
He would come up with the oddest combos. We were fishing Whitehurst once, post spawn, day after a cold front. We had fished half a day without a bite and were drifting back to the ramp that used to be in the Botanical Gardens on a cold north wind. He catchs three nice fish in a row. I look to see he has red Roadrunner with a white twister tail rigged up, a chartruse twister rigged down and half a red worm on! I won't describe the sandwichs he used to back since some of you just had dinner!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flatwater
I have done well before fronts and during fronts, and I have done poorly as well. When I did poorly, I always chalked it up to "I never found any fish." If you KNOW there are fish in a particular spot, they can be caught.
I do know this, on more than one occasion, I have slayed the fish and a rain storm come about (not talking about a drizzle) and the bite shuts down completely. 30 min after the rain, the bite is on again.
Although thunderstorms are only small weather "fronts", I experienced a tremendous surge in the bite on two occasions when a TS approached. One storm chased me to the ramp, but the other was small and only came close. The day of the smaller storm, I was sitting on a great spot but couldn't buy a bite. As the storm approached, the bite went crazy. When it passed, I went back to catching nothing.
I wonder if the increase in electrical charge in the air is effecting the nerve endings on the fish's sides, is triggering an increase in feeding? There is a nerve line down the side of fish that is sensitive to electrical impulses.
Cheers
Doug
Maybe the cause of the low atmospheric pressure affecting the fish stomach pouch making them feel the need to feed (shrug) :scratchhead
Thanks to Papermouth Scaler on this board, and Nimrod on the main board, (along with others) I have come to realize that it is the barometric pressure that affects the bite, and not the associated front. The Front is the indicator of barometric pressure changes underway. I read a good article on weather.com called "How Barometric Pressure Affects Fishing" and here is what I found out. It affirms what most of you have said:
1. The fish's air bladder expands when the barometric pressure drops (makes fish feel like they are going to explode like an overinflated baloon). So, fish head deep to get back in the correct pressure zone. There may not be enough food deep, so fish feed heavily before going down (the blitz before a front). While deep, they are mostly concerned about the correct pressure and will not move much to feed (must drop it on their noses).
2. If the pressure drop lasts for a couple of days, the fish need time for their air bladders to adjust back to normal, so the first 24 hours after a front passes (barometric pressure rises) the fish will not feed heavily. They wait until their air bladder gets back to normal, and they feel comfortable at shallower depths, thus enabling them to resume normal feeding patterns throughout the entire water column.
I think it goes sumpn' like that. I tried to sum it up without writing a Volume-sized explanation. Someone said, "don't worry about it, go fishing when you can". I say, " Amen!"
ID
Number 1 makes sence but I really agree with the last line!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Idunno
I notice most times that fish bite better as front approaches and slow down after front but as said are still catchable and the best way is jigging over them and only move bait a little once every 20 - 30 second and on high presure and low wind ,do the same and as these 2 weeks has proven over again a very small jig ,less than a inch caught 90 % of fish these 2 weeks when every one except Doc that I talk to was not catching much. I perfer white because each time I use another color wife beats me till I change back. I too say lite rain is good fishing but hard rain always seam to shut them down. I can't stress enough how important it is to use a small bait anytime that fish slow down no matter what weather condition is like.Big bait anytime fish are a little aggressive,This is how it appears to me over the years,but with fishing they don't read my rule book all the time,LOL
The front did not affect the bite today!