Anyone fish(ing) the eclipse?

[Swamp Girl]

Anyone fish(ing) the eclipse? I'll be out there and it'll be 92% sun obscured here, so it's going to be day. Then night. Then day. I'm excited to see how the bass react. I'm also going to be tromping through snow to reach the water, so today's trip will be a snow eclipse fishing trip. 

[thediscochef]

Basically everyone I know who's off today is fishing the eclipse. The dfw fb fishing pages are nothing but eclipse fishing talk. I'm kinda glad I'm working in Shreveport until Wednesday because I don't want to deal with the crowds. As someone who lives and fishes in a state park area that is in the totality...I'm so ready for this to be over. It's cool and once in a lifetime etc, but all the visitors and extra fishing pressure is getting to me. I miss once in a lifetime events every day without knowing it, that's how nature and time work together. 

 

Does anyone want to take this humbug off my back? The weight is real

[Swamp Girl]

The humbug is about to be lifted. You might enjoy it up here, as I'll be on the only one on the lake.

[Pat Brown]

I'll be at the pond with Jake.  We shall see what happens!  I reckon they gonna think it got cloudy.  😂😂😂😂

[bp_fowler]

Working today or else I’d be out there. 

[thediscochef]

So far results seem mixed. Seen some catches but my fishing buddy blanked

[Jmilburn76]

I really wanted to but it’s just too windy in TN today for me to be on my kayak.

[T-Billy]

8hrs. 3 dinks. The only lake I can currently launch on, due to flooding, is a mud hole. The others are 6' + high, and the ramps are inaccessible.

   The eclipse was pretty underwhelming. Was within 50mi of full coverage, I was expecting it to get darker. 

[Swamp Girl]

Like Tim, I was underwhelmed. I was hoping for night-grade dimming. I did catch a bass during the eclipse and you can contrast that with an earlier bass, which is the first pic. Then there's my pic of the shadowed Sun. I did hear Mourning doves during the eclipse. They sing in the morning and evening and so they were fooled by the tricksy Moon. 

 

I also took the water's temp today, again and again. It ranged from 41 degrees to 44.5 degrees. We got 17 inches of snow last week. Most of it's melted, but I think it cooled the water. It's going to be mild again tomorrow, but I don't think I'm going to fish. I need to be patient and let the water warm some. Sure, I can catch bass with snow on the ground, but I can't catch many:

 

 

[TnRiver46]

I was at work . And it was raining 

[FishTax]

I was at work.. in an office without the cool glasses so I missed it entirely. My kids saw it though and were pumped, so I'm more happy they're happy then anything else. 

[Aaron_H]

8 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Anyone fish(ing) the eclipse? I'll be out there and it'll be 92% sun obscured here, so it's going to be day. Then night. Then day. I'm excited to see how the bass react. I'm also going to be tromping through snow to reach the water, so today's trip will be a snow eclipse fishing trip. 

 

The new moon is traditionally a good bite for me, so I was fishing either way, but I was definitely curious to see if there would be any effect from the eclipse. I'm not anywhere near the path of the total eclipse, but we were supposed to get a little over 50% coverage from what I read.

 

If there was any effect, it was a negative one. 😅 I got out right as the eclipse peaked for my location and fished 5 hours until dark. Only thing I could get bit on was a chatterbait, and aside from a couple of aggressive eats they were mostly very soft hits. Missed quite a few fish. This little guy ate it pretty good:

 

 

First time throwing it with the new Rapala freeloader as a trailer. I was hoping it would stand up to tilapia short strikes better than the Zako does, but that hope was short lived.

 

One tilapia short strike and ripped the tail right off. C'est la vie.

[Bird]

We've had nothing but rain and wind but surprisingly saw a 90 % eclipse.

This is an off fishing prespawn, we're in the midst of building a hunting cabin that will consume a few weeks.

[MIbassyaker]

Was at work.  A bunch of us went out and watched it. We were outside the range of totality and it never got darker than, say, cloud cover. We did notice a temperature drop of a few degrees at peak, though. Don't know if that was a real effect or a coincidence.

 

Doesn't sound like I missed anything really special fishing-wise, besides an otherwise warm and pleasant spring day.

[Swamp Girl]

11 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

We did notice a temperature drop of a few degrees at peak, though.

 

I read that the temperature drop is real. 

[Danocaster]

Fished a 6 acre pond in middle

of nowhere TN . Didn’t know what to expect - having never fished there - apparently they’re some big ones in there 

 

caught 22 in 3 hrs - all dinks though 🤷🏼‍♂️

most on a Nikko Hellgrammite- a few on a fluke - a few on a wacky Senko 

 

 

still fun 

[MIbassyaker]

42 minutes ago, Danocaster said:

Fished a 6 acre pond in middle

of nowhere TN . Didn’t know what to expect - having never fished there - apparently they’re some big ones in there 

 

caught 22 in 3 hrs - all dinks though 🤷🏼‍♂️

most on a Nikko Hellgrammite- a few on a fluke - a few on a wacky Senko 

 

 

still fun 

 

I would very happily have traded my afternoon at work for that.

[Pat Brown]

7 hours ago, Danocaster said:

Fished a 6 acre pond in middle

of nowhere TN . Didn’t know what to expect - having never fished there - apparently they’re some big ones in there 

 

caught 22 in 3 hrs - all dinks though 🤷🏼‍♂️

most on a Nikko Hellgrammite- a few on a fluke - a few on a wacky Senko 

 

 

still fun 

 

Hey it's Danocaster!  Welcome to the forums!  You make great guitars!   22 in 3 hrs ain't bad!  I only managed 5 in 2 hrs and no big ones but the animals were all buzzing around at the pond.

[The Bassman]

We were right in the middle of it here. I fish HOA ponds and there were people everywhere. Sort of reminded me of four years ago when a lot of people tried fishing early in the pandemic. Clear and calm didn't help either.

[thediscochef]

[BigAngus752]

Well, that was interesting.  The fishing was tough.  I caught 7 but it was a grind.  Much tougher on "eclipse day" than two days prior.  One thing that was a bit freaky was the animals losing their minds when the eclipse was happening.  About 30 minutes before a owl started going nuts and then during the eclipse a rooster was crowing and a bunch of deer went crashing through the woods on the bank for no apparent reason.  Very strange.  No awesome eclipse-bite though.