What's up with the haze in the sky? Does it effect the fishing?

[TriStateBassin106]

So it appears a good chunk of the country is currently under a smokey haze from those wildfires out on the west coast. In the northeast we have been getting some wicked and weird sunsets and sunrises. I'm currently not aware of how long this will last but I had planned some outings during this time..does this haze effect the bass at all and if so is it negative or positive? 

[WRB]

No effect on fish, major effect on us who must breath it everyday.

[gim]

I think its actually more beneficial for fishing if you are going on a sunny day.  The haze blocks some of the bright sunshine and therefore reduces some of the stronger rays into the water, especially during midday.  I went fishing last summer on one of these "hazy sunshine" days and hammered the brown bass in a lake with very clear water.  All of my previous experiences on this lake were not nearly as good on a bright, sunny day either.

 

West is burning, southeast bracing for more hurricanes.  Stay safe people.

[MickD]

Doesn't affect the bass's health, but they cannot eat very efficiently with their masks on.

[schplurg]

Could have been time of year, could have been the thick smoke blocking the sun, but I had a great week at Tulloch Res last week (Cali).

 

One day I couldn't even tell precisely where the sun was, the smoke was so bad. I wondered if it made the fish more active since I did pretty good every day.

 

The sky was quite noticeably darker. On my drive up to the lake all the streetlights in Fremont were on midday. Wasn't so bad at the lake though.

 

Caught my best so far this year, a 4.2 pounder, right from my Dad's dock. You can sort of see the haze behind me. 5 inch green and white YUM Dinger. She fought me for 1:20. So fun!!!

 

My friends often remark at how happy I look in my fishing photos and vids. Yep! I am!

[roadwarrior]

[J._Bricker]

@TriStateBassin106, the smokey haze definitely extends the topwater bite just like on a cloudy or overcast day. Last week after the windstorms, I was running a buzz bait through “sawdust” piles of ash from the fires that the fish were using as overhead cover.

[J Francho]

It’s the 5G gamma rays inciting the top water bite!

[Big Hands]

I don't think it has negatively affected the fishing noticeably for me anyway.

[Columbia Craw]

Unless a bass has COPD he should be fine.

[Sphynx]

I caught around 30 fish in about 10 hours of fishing spread out over about 5 or 6 days in south central Washington with smoke so thick you couldn't see the 1 mile across the river to the Oregon side...or the sun, moon, clouds or anything else, so I'd say it's not bothering the fish too much 

[Mobasser]

We have a haze in parts of our area now, not because of smoke from fires, but because many farmers are running combines and cutting corn. It's been dry now for over a week. The big combines throw a lot of dust.