The Air Pressure Myth... relating to fishing

[nitro929]

It assumes that we KNOW everything there is to know about how fish use/manage weather patterns and pressure. We don't.

I can tell you this, and many on this site who have been with me can attest.......I can tell you what pressure is doing within a few hours of a front based on how BAD I feel that particular morning.

I get crazy pressure headaches.......FAST dropping pressure, I get a pounding headache in the front forehead. Slower pressure drop......a nagging headache.

High pressure.......just a throbbing headache, usually feel it around my temples.

Funny thing, my doc and many docs say I cannot tell the pressure change. TELL THAT TO MY FREAKIN HEADACHES.

Now how does this effect the fishing. Maybe fish can tell an approaching storm. If that storm is bringing cold or warm air, I now use that information along with what I've learned from Dave Stewart to identify a particular location on a lake to fish.

NO DOUBT.........

Later,

Geo

That makes two of us, I always called them my high pressure headaches. The only thing that works for me are the migrane asprins. Now i know its not worth going to the doctor about.

[GeoFisher]

That makes two of us, I always called them my high pressure headaches. The only thing that works for me are the migrane asprins. Now i know its not worth going to the doctor about.

I have spent thousands looking for clues..........the best answer. GET in front of the front with medications . If I "think" it is going to happen, I load up with tylenol before it gets here. usually that helps. when it doesn't help and the pressure really tanks, I feel it for a few hours, and sometimes all day.

The bassman30 had to leave me at the marina once because I literally could not function. After a few cups of coffee and some breakfast, I was good to go.

Later,

Geo

[spinnerbaitguy]

I hope this isn't the same article but I can't tell for sure. I am on my android phone and the links on the site will not load. There is usually a link on this site at the bottom of the page which allows me to go to "full site" mode which is more functional but I can't find it today.
Anyway...this article presents data on largemouth which mirrors some of the observations listed.
I, like some others, had always just gone with the typical (old) school of thought and didn't think much deeper into it.


BAROMETRIC PRESSURE AND BASS - In-Fisherman

[Moveon]

Spinnerbaitguy:
This is a different article than the one I posted. But it's saying the same thing. I saw this article when I did a google search on this subject the other day. I just didn't read it until after you posted it on here. I relate to most all the In-Fisherman Stuff. Some of their stuff was copied off what I said on another fishing forum a few years back. I took that as a compliment. The main point of the In-Fisherman article is that air pressure alone is not a DIRECT reason for the fish's behavior. But the changing air pressure can predict that a front is coming through and that the weather will be changing. Fish eat when they are hungry. They suspend or luck when they are full. During the summer months when the water is warmer the fish digest their food faster and eat more often as they are cold blooded and their metabolism increases with warmer water.

Thanks for posting the In-Fisherman Article and it was a good read. I hope others can learn from this article and the other one.

I hope this isn't the same article but I can't tell for sure. I am on my android phone and the links on the site will not load. There is usually a link on this site at the bottom of the page which allows me to go to "full site" mode which is more functional but I can't find it today.
Anyway...this article presents data on largemouth which mirrors some of the observations listed.
I, like some others, had always just gone with the typical (old) school of thought and didn't think much deeper into it.


BAROMETRIC PRESSURE AND BASS - In-Fisherman

[HURRICANEBOB]

So if it ain't pressure, then can we also call moon phase bunk?

[FlyLie]

Science or good old eng gin near ing..

[HURRICANEBOB]

Science or good old eng gin near ing..

Like our Congress, use the cardboard tube and let the next guy solve it.

[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.

[hairball]

Dr Keith Jones, head of research at Berkley, has a book out called Knowing Bass. If you appreciate the scientific viewpoint on things, this is a great read. If science just isn't your thing, though, this book might make your head explode.

[jcb]

Dr Keith Jones, head of research at Berkley, has a book out called Knowing Bass. If you appreciate the scientific viewpoint on things, this is a great read. If science just isn't your thing, though, this book might make your head explode.

I appreciate the scientific viewpoint, but I'm not into reading stuff overloaded with complicated terminology I'd have to look up. Nor a bunch of raw data etc.

Would you still recommend this book?