The Air Pressure Myth... relating to fishing

[linedrager]

The indicaters on my Barometer shows that low presseure is associated with rain amd storms and high pressure is associated with fiar skyes and good weather. In his book SPOONPLUGING, Buck Perry, the Fahther of Structure Fishing (the guy Kygorski was referring to) worte that: "During your fishing, YOU SHOULD NOT THINK OF WEATHER IN TERMS OF TEMPERATURE. .. . . YOU SHOULD VIEW WEAHTER IN THEMS OF LIGHT. . . . THE LIGHER OR BRIGHER IT IS, THE TOUGHER THE FISHING WILL BE. THE DARKER THE CONDITIONS, THE BETTER IT WILL BE." Low pressuer equates to dark skys and high pressure equates to bright skyes.

Buck goers on to explain that the best fishing is prior to the passage of a COLD FRONT (which also corralates to LOW PRESSUER). The PRE-COLD FRONT conditions are usually associated with dark conditions and good fishing, whereas POST COLD FRONT contiions are usually associated with BLUE SKYEW and lots of light.

The bottom line is that the best days for the FISHERMAN is fair weather and clear bright skyes but the best days for CATHCING FISH is pre-frontal dark, cloudy days. That is what Buck says and it has been my exeriance also.

Grumpy

if any of you have never read buck perrys spoonpluggin book I highly recomend it, you may have to read and reread a lot and go out and fish and reread this is the most insightful book on fishing I have ever read, buy it, read it , it is awsome, and I can't belive it was written so long ago, a lot of what you read in magazines and books these days is based on bucks work.

[Moveon]

Right on! Buck Perry the father of structure fishing. Very smart man. He also wrote a lot of the good articles for Fishing Fact's Magazine back in the 1970's. Spoon plugs work!! They help you cover a lot of ground very fast.

I troll them using lead core fishing line and heavy duty rods and reels on KY lake. A good plug retriever is a handy device to keep on the boat. I found that trolling crank baits also works well. And I'm learning where the fish (Bass) hang out in the hot summer months.

if any of you have never read buck perrys spoonpluggin book I highly recomend it, you may have to read and reread a lot and go out and fish and reread this is the most insightful book on fishing I have ever read, buy it, read it , it is awsome, and I can't belive it was written so long ago, a lot of what you read in magazines and books these days is based on bucks work.

[kygorski]

When I started spoonplugging, We didn't have many of the tools that are common today. Even with a line that was pre stretched,and a stiff rod, some times you didn't know your lure was fouled.Besides the spoonplugs, I had a pretty good assortment of bombers and hell benders.Just when I started to "put it together" they introduced another fish and I quit bass fishing for almost 4 years. It was the coho and king salmon. Brown trout and steelhead. For a couple of years the southern end of lake michigan was some of the best fishing in america. Then I was introduced to stripers.The end for me was the dam fiasco on cumberland. But health forced us to move here to Glasgow, and now my fishing is almost over.