barometric pressure.....????

[WRB]

12 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

You mean to tell me there are low pressure systems in SoCal? Once or twice a year, maybe? Haha

It maybe hard to believe but we get low/high pressure systems weekly during the spring and fall. This year more hurricanes formed in the Pacific Ocean then the Altantic Ocean and have a direct impact on our weather, just no rain to speak of. With the southern humbolt and northen artic currents comming together in mid California, pressure systems are continuos, the high pressure systems bring Santana winds out the NE @ 50-70 mph following cloudy low pressures systems.

Always hoping for rain.

Tom

[shovelmouth83]

yeah i know what you mean. i was born in California in the bay area, and transplanted here in Arkansas. i noticed the pressurediffrence when fishing in mt shasta and then going back to the bay area. it was two different worlds. 

[TnRiver46]

30 minutes ago, WRB said:

It maybe hard to believe but we get low/high pressure systems weekly during the spring and fall. This year more hurricanes formed in the Pacific Ocean then the Altantic Ocean and have a direct impact on our weather, just no rain to speak of. With the southern humbolt and northen artic currents comming together in mid California, pressure systems are continuos, the high pressure systems bring Santana winds out the NE @ 50-70 mph following cloudy low pressures systems.

Always hoping for rain.

Tom

Here’s hoping! Sounds like an interesting climate to say the least

[TnRiver46]

37 minutes ago, shovelmouth83 said:

yeah i know what you mean. i was born in California in the bay area, and transplanted here in Arkansas. i noticed the pressurediffrence when fishing in mt shasta and then going back to the bay area. it was two different worlds. 

Arkansas....... I’m very familiar with the weather there, I get it 1.5 days later....... weeeettttt. Half of that state is underwater !

[Brad Reid]

Again, fish behavior has nothing to do "directly" with air pressure; it's all about what the pressure is measuring: weather.

 

I thought it might be interesting to post a chart showing where I live, Lake Athens, TX, for the whole year of 2018 so far. Heck, since January 1, we have only seen barometric pressure readings ranging from a high of 30.80 to a low of 29.57.

 

What one will see on the chart is how much larger the swings are in the pressure readings from January to around May. Temps way up and down, wind directions moving from north to south and wind velocities altering greatly. More rainy weather, too. Then, over summer, temps are more predictably and statically hot, winds out of the south dominate in the summer, less rain and "rainy-like" conditions.

 

Brad

[Mobasser]

21 hours ago, Catt said:

 

I don't care what the ambient temperatures are, I don't care what the barometric pressure is doing, I don't care what moon phase it is, I don't care what season it is.

 

Give me three days of stable (unchanging) weather & it's on!

This is what I realized at some point also. Started out worrying about all the different factors, but realized that 3 days of steady weather produce the best fishing. Now, I just go fishing- don't really give a hoot about moon, barometer etc.

["hamma"]

Umm,.  Yeah,. About this? Experience has taught me that the barometer changing does effect bass , when it's not changing is prime,    but a sharp change has shut the bite down on me more than a dozen times like a switch. My reaction? Of course only after exhausting a grub for a while, Leave the lake or pond,.. for a flowing river. Rivers seem to eliminate, or should I say buffer the effects. So many times has this panned out for me I now automaticly do it ,..as long as the day has enough left in it. Typical summer senario, may invlove moisture, but that's just part of the deal

[Brad Reid]

1 hour ago, "hamma" said:

Umm,.  Yeah,. About this? Experience has taught me that the barometer changing does effect bass , when it's not changing is prime,    but a sharp change has shut the bite down on me more than a dozen times like a switch. My reaction? Of course only after exhausting a grub for a while, Leave the lake or pond,.. for a flowing river. Rivers seem to eliminate, or should I say buffer the effects. So many times has this panned out for me I now automaticly do it ,..as long as the day has enough left in it. Typical summer senario, may invlove moisture, but that's just part of the deal

Good observations that I'd still assign to weather.

 

Curious in this regard, when you were out on the water fishing, then your barometer experienced a sharp change (it can happen at times), what was happening around you weather-wise? Increase in wind, cloud cover, temps, other?

 

I guess I should add that high and low pressure readings can be "relative." You might have a 30.50 reading on your lake and still be the lowest in the region, that sort of thing.

 

High pressure most often means "holding things out" and prevented from coming in. So, every hot summer with dead air and clear skies, the weatherman says "We have a high pressure system sitting on top of us and no chance of any clouds or rain coming in." In other words, high pressure is analogous to the air inside a balloon: if you puncture it, the air move out, doesn't let air in.

 

So, fish are very susceptible to weather conditions, no doubt. Not so much to pressure changes in the water column that can be offset by the tiniest of adjustments.  Brad

["hamma"]

Lol ,...I live in New England, fronts moving in usually means some sort of "change" occurs. Even the daily summer convection creates change here ,  Mt Washington's proximity to the altantic makes for some of the funkiest weather, Sometimes stalling a front for long periods , or ripping several thru in a day.so, I look at it like this,.  The fish didn't educate themselves. They are there, I just need to figure them out no matter what's happening,...When a front rolls thru and they shut down? I go to the river ,..it's simple.     B                                     does it happen every front? No

But it does, and I just react when I realize they are done biting

 So y'all can tout this or that. Don't make much nevermind to me,. When a 3 inch grub doesn't receive even a sniff? They are pretty much done dining for the day. I'm either heading home, or to some current.