G
Guest
·So much of success in fishing is being in the right place at the right time. Last season, I came to hold a deep seated belief (perhaps unjustified) that the right time was when the weather turned gloomy. The snottier the weather, the better the fishing seemed to be for me. I caught my first keeper of the year in the pissing rain on a stormy night in May with a steady 25 mph wind out of the East.
Jen thought I was absolutely nuts to be heading out, but there I was down at my favorite honey hole with a giant lightening rod in my hands, defying the weather gods to turn me away. On my third cast of an olive over silver beach glass minnow - bam! big fish and several more immediately after it. That single event shaped the rest of the season for me. I no longer let the weather deter me from fishing.
Dr. Ross says in his book the idea that bad weather excites fish has some merit. Winds blow plankton in from off shore and churning seas oxygenate the water and stir up nutrients and the combined effect can bring baitfish out of a previous stupor and in turn make the game fish turn on. Makes sense.
We've talked about weather before and I know some of you swear that low pressure is like bananas on a boat -- might as well do chores around the house when the barometer plummets.
How about the rest of you? When's the right time to head out to find the right place?
Jen thought I was absolutely nuts to be heading out, but there I was down at my favorite honey hole with a giant lightening rod in my hands, defying the weather gods to turn me away. On my third cast of an olive over silver beach glass minnow - bam! big fish and several more immediately after it. That single event shaped the rest of the season for me. I no longer let the weather deter me from fishing.
Dr. Ross says in his book the idea that bad weather excites fish has some merit. Winds blow plankton in from off shore and churning seas oxygenate the water and stir up nutrients and the combined effect can bring baitfish out of a previous stupor and in turn make the game fish turn on. Makes sense.
We've talked about weather before and I know some of you swear that low pressure is like bananas on a boat -- might as well do chores around the house when the barometer plummets.
How about the rest of you? When's the right time to head out to find the right place?