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Post by coyotek on Jul 20, 2005 9:52:26 GMT -6
Last night I went fishing at the docks by my sailboat and I didn't get even a bite, until a small thunderstorm hit (I got drenched by the way) and then as soon as it was over I caught fish. Is this normal?
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Post by John Payette on Jul 20, 2005 10:05:17 GMT -6
I have had some really good days fishing in the rain. I like to throw a buzzbait in the rain. I don't know why the fish bite better. Maybe the cooling of the water invigorates them? I am not to sure. But I don't reccomend fishing during lightning. A guy was killed on Lake Fork a week or so ago and an other guy severly injured by a lightning strike.
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Post by tailchaser on Jul 20, 2005 10:08:44 GMT -6
cooler water, cloud cover, probably wind to push the bait around... all good... although last weekend on fayette, i was catching before the storm came in and after it seemed like they shut down a little...
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Post by tsstagner on Jul 20, 2005 10:24:26 GMT -6
Some of the reasons that fish usually bite better around thunderstorms may be that the water is agitated causing bait to move and the usual associated low barometric pressure which often accompanies rain.
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Post by seminolefan on Jul 20, 2005 11:41:04 GMT -6
Some of the reasons that fish usually bite better around thunderstorms may be that the water is agitated causing bait to move and the usual associated low barometric pressure which often accompanies rain. I concur on this. Also, the rain makes the fish less weary..
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Post by cchamptr21 on Jul 21, 2005 13:11:08 GMT -6
all these guys are right, but if it starts booming and lighting....LEAVE!!!!!
the rod you hold in your hand is the same kinda rod know as a lighting rod!!! i've been fishing when right before a thunderstorm when i raised my rod tip it would hummm...... i had my partner raise his to make sure it wasn't just me... we immediately found cover!!!! from a vicious thunderstorm that we didn't even know was there....
yes during the summer the bite will increase, but rember safety first!!
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Post by tsstagner on Jul 21, 2005 17:30:14 GMT -6
cchamptr21 makes a great point. If you hear your rod buzzing or your line 'floats' in the air, you may be getting very close to making yout last cast - ever! If there is less than 30 seconds between the lightening and thunder, you are also in 'the strike zone'. No fishing trip or tournament is worth your life.
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Post by Bill Hall on Jul 21, 2005 18:12:09 GMT -6
Just rain turns fish on but lighting I have found turns them off. I asked a TPW biologist about it and he said the lighting - electricity has a way of going in the water and put the fish off till the next day sort of like when a cold front shuts them down from feeding they are suspended and up against the wood
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Post by coyotek on Jul 21, 2005 19:33:05 GMT -6
Hey guys, I may be blonde but I do have a brain. I went in the cabin of the sailboat during the lightning. I didn't resume fishing until it had passed.
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Post by dave on Jul 21, 2005 19:41:16 GMT -6
post your fishing pictures!!!!
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Post by coyotek on Jul 21, 2005 20:14:47 GMT -6
Remember Dave, the big one got away!!!!
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Post by dave on Jul 21, 2005 20:59:09 GMT -6
so......we don't always catch the big ones...but the memories a great!!!!!! I caught the biggest bass of my life a few months back, it was 10+ and the camera batteries were dead!!!!! I don't have that problem now...I bought a camera phone!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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