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?
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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.
I have no luck fishing right after a front, Blue Bird days with no wind and clear blue sky with not a cloud in the sky. Love to be on the lake on days like this but might as well leave the poles at home. Can someone tell me where and how to catch fish on days like that????
Cricket George no offense taken, I've have been in that guides shoes there have been days I felt like I couldn't do anything right! I was trying everything that I could think of trying to put clients in fish! But hey " that's why they call it fishing" EB
I took a guided trip on Tenkiller one day, a few years ago, me and my wife, think we caught 3 fish all day. The guide was so embarrassed that he offered a free Trip on Grand to make up for it.
My wife and I pick a day and go to Grand with the Guide, and we caught 2 fish for the days effort! The guide tried his heart out but it just wasn't in the cards!
Did find a really good arrowhead on Grand though.
EB - Absolutely! " that's why they call it fishing and not catching":highfive
Tenkiller is hard to Guide Kirk..its either on or its off. I can usually find some fish to catch but the glory days are just a memory of past years. I thought after the last 2 springs with the numbers we were catching and the 9" and 9 1/2" crappie in numbers it was on a come back but I am not sure now...It use to be a given when it turned cold and the water would turn to ice in the guides of your rod you could catch a limit daily of huge slabs out of the deep trees along the channels but even that hasn't worked well for the past few years...its totally a different animal....Ranger
That is sad, Ranger
The fish are running out of places to go, we need some rain! EB
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Originally Posted by eufaula boy
Don't forget, fish have their moods just like anyone or anything else. I have the best luck right before a front hits and the crappie are in a happy mood.
These two sites may provide intresting read.
weather.com - How Weather Affects Fish Activity
Fishing Calendar from the Farmers' Almanac - Best Fishing Times
tenkiller was hurt bad a couple years ago when it go so low. if I remember it was 20 or 30 something feet low. before that we could go over and catch a limit pretty easy. but since then it's a different ball game. then the floods last year changed it again. I've got to get back on the water I need to go fishing.