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Location: WI | Interested to hear if anybody has fished during a solar eclipse? We'll be on LOTW when this happens on Aug 21st so we won't experience the total darkness but wondering how this may affect muskies. Extended forecast (for what it's worth) calls for stable weather so that shouldn't be much of a factor. We're hoping the big girls get all riled up & attack anything that moves. |
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| I haven't fished during one but I read a fact in a magazine that the area lsnthat are completely dark the earths crust will raise 1.5" so I was thinking that I should go fishing as well. Seems like quite the major. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Was crappie fishing on Kentucky Lake back in the 90s during a solar eclipse, (about 70% obscuration) ...couldn't keep 'me off the hook for close to a hour during the peak.. Coincidence? who knows...
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| I would imagine it will be at one extreme or another, ill be working |
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Location: Minnesota | I'm hoping it will be great.ill be on vermilion for a week. |
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| The path of the eclipse will run west to southeast across Nebraska and into Missouri. It should be interesting to see if it has an effect as far north as Vermillion. Hope it does.
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Lake Kinkaid in Southern Illinois will experience totality. |
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| Some say that all the MN metro muskies have been fasting all summer for this eclipse.... |
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I took the day off of work a month ago to be out on the water fishing during the whole day. They are saying 93% total eclipse where I am at. |
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| I will be on Lake of the woods, sure hope it helps my numbers. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I doubt it will make a difference, but it will be fun to watch! |
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| Don't look unless you have special Eclipse glasses |
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| My feelings about all this have been greatly enhanced by my Florida fishing and the way the best anglers will literally chase the tides. Clearly, we don't have the tides around here, but whatever goes on to create the tides goes on whether we have tides or not. So, the muskies feel what the moon does to create the tide even if they live in water too small for a tide. An eclipse may be whole nuther matter, but I would be casting pounders if I were you, just in case! |
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| I doubt it'll have much of an impact other than it'll give a brief window where the sun will be behind the moon...that might trigger some fish to think it's time to eat. A supermoon, on the other hand, I've seen have huge impacts on fish activity. Likely for the same reasons Marty sets forth above. A supermoon is when the moon is at it's closest point to the earth and should have a greater gravitational pull on the Earth's surface. Best trout fishing day I've ever had was a supermoon. |
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| whynot - 8/10/2017 11:32 AM
I doubt it'll have much of an impact other than it'll give a brief window where the sun will be behind the moon...that might trigger some fish to think it's time to eat. A supermoon, on the other hand, I've seen have huge impacts on fish activity. Likely for the same reasons Marty sets forth above. A supermoon is when the moon is at it's closest point to the earth and should have a greater gravitational pull on the Earth's surface. Best trout fishing day I've ever had was a supermoon.
Yeah this will probably be a low-light, moon-overhead situation.
That November supermoon put 5 fish in the net in 45 minutes - on the fly rod. Looking forward to the next one
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| I live in far southern Illinois, where the sun will be darkened totally for a little over 2 minutes, with a total time of about 11 minutes that there will be some percentage of the sun being blocked. I was bass fishing during a solar eclipse before, back around 1979, which was not a total eclipse, but the sky darkened quite perceptibly for about 7 minutes at around two PM. That day, prior to the event, fishing had been pretty good. As it got darker, I switched to throwing a topwater lure. I remember getting a hellacious hit and MISS when the sky was about as dark as it was going to get, then nothing for the rest of the time of the eclipse. Personally, I think fish ARE affected by an eclipse, thinking(?) that evening is here and it's time to eat, but I can't imagine what they think when it gets bright again! For the rest of that day the lake became like the Dead Sea. No action, no nothing. As I remember, it took a month for the fishing on that lake to come back to normal. My advice would be to be on a great nighttime spot when the eclipse starts, and pound it hard until it gets bright again. Good luck!
Edited by hairy lures 8/11/2017 10:03 AM
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