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| They most certainly put on the feed bag before it, and often shut down after it.
But how do they know its coming, without the weather channel!.[;)] [:bigsmile:] |
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| It's a light condition,, when a front moves in, it clouds up allowing fish to get active and possibly move shallower. (within our range) When the front moves through the clouds blow out, the sky turns to a high bright blue and winds kick up. The fish head for the only place of stability they can find,,, deep water. (if available) Being cold blooded there activity is reduced and stay dormant until the weather and water condition improve. |
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| I think it has something to do with barometric pressure changes. But I"m not a muskie. |
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| My guess is that the change in pressure plays a major role...animals/birds of all types respond to fronts as well as fish + w/out seeing the weather report one can tell a change in the weather by observing their behavior, often times before we realize a weather change will take place...my ONE serious answer for the year 2002! [:sun:] |
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| Man that's a question we all have the answer too, but do we really. How do you think the fish know ahead of time well I would have to say the same way we humans do. The only difference we need special equipment to do so and they have it built into themselfs.
Same question would be how do fish know it's a full moon or a new moon I know they don't stick there heads out of the water nightly to check out the skys for the white ball. One thing I know for sure is in my younger years I could tell when it was a full moon without a calender or seeing it in the sky ( just ask my wife ) [:p] , I just could feel it and that tells me thats probaby the same thing animals get.
I would have to say barometric pressure is one strong factor and the other would have to be a 6th sense. [:sun:] |
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| BAROMETRIC PRESSURE!!
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| Rich,
I knew you were part WOLF-MAN!!!!!!![;)] |
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| They watch the Weather Channel....can't believe no one posted this before now!!!!![:blackeye:] |
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| I think there is a connection between the barometric pressure change and the musky's swim (gas) bladder.
One of my crazy theories is that the dropping pressure of an approaching front makes a musky more bouyant... causing them to rise up in the water column where they are more accessible to our presentations. This also allows the musky to keep more oxygen in its blood (it either remains bouyant or "deflates" its swim bladder to become less bouyant)... giving it more "energy" and ambition to chase. When a front passes and the barometer rises... the increased pressure (weight of the water) makes the musky sink and it must fill its swim bladder to keep itself afloat. This takes oxygen from their blood... making them less energetic and less willing to chase our baits.
I'm not saying any of the above is true.... but it is something I have thought about while trapped in my cubicle at work wishing I was out fishing. |
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| its just that most fishermen believe that fish bite before a storm and they go fishing that they have success. ie why do so many fish get caught on black bucktails. meesh
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| Lets see, no, no, no, no, no, no, interesting but no, and no.
I do not think they are responding to the front per se. If that were so then the wild fish movements I often noted in SC when bass fishing could not be explained. These movements are many times part of warm unstable air, NOT frontal movements. The whole atmosphere is oppressive and the fish are not moving nor is anything active, but as the storm comes in all of a sudden the whole place goes wild with activity.
Sorry to burst the bubble but they are not reacting to the front at all, other than in a low light kind of a way. Unified fish field theory demands that a good theory explain more than one type of movement. The key is the idea that the food pyramid is stimulated and most easily excited from the bottom up and shuts down the same way. ie the plankton becomes active before the minnows, minnows before the musky. The bigger the animal the more stable it is internally. So the musky is always going to be behind the curve for reaction time. This explains why they sometimes are slow to go, even in the face of what you believe are frontal conditions, and also why they still can be active when the front has passed and the new front is coming in
What stimulates plankton before anything else, barometric pressure and................
what I consider the key to the really wild bites, IONIC CHANGE AND TURBULENCE IN THE EARTH'S ELECTRICAL FIELDS(COPYWRIGHT FSF 2002)
[;)]
This theory and thousands of casts have resulted in the temporary capture of many musky. |
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| Ummmm, FSF can you explain this a little further? "What stimulates plankton before anything else, barometric pressure and....... what I consider the key to the really wild bites, IONIC CHANGE AND TURBULENCE IN THE EARTH'S ELECTRICAL FIELDS(COPYWRIGHT FSF 2002)"
Ionic Change? Electrical Fields? And I thought I was off my rocker......[:0]
I know plankton is light sensitive.... but how does it influence a musky's aggressiveness? I was out the other night as a 2-day low pressure system was vacating and had the ENTIRE lake system packed into a small bay. Not exaggerating... there were Billions of cisco fry on the surface. Then the larger cisco moved in and began feeding on these little minnows. The question I have is... if the plankton started this reaction.... then the minnows moved in... then the larger cisco.... WHERE WERE THE MUSKIES???? I never saw a fish despite my efforts. So why wasn't there also a musky feeding frenzy going on??? Seems to me the "chain reaction" was in full swing!!!
I don't expect anyone to have an answer... but we will never get it right if we don't keep tossin' out ideas. |
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| there you go!!! Proving my theory in a nutshell. You were there too early, the musky showed up the very next hour after you left and were EXTREMELY aggressive!!! Just as I said, the larger specimens move last.
Ever see static electricity move dust particles around? Think of plankton in the water uhm lets call them "tumbling and disoriented" planktons.
Thank you for observing my copywrighted material. Very gracious...[:bigsmile:] |
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| FSF,
How does the barometer affect planktonic movements? If it can influence the behavior of microorganisms... why can't it influence a larger specimen such as a musky. Please share some more of your copyrighted material. Thanks.
As far as your explaination for my recent fishing experience... it makes sense. I've always been a day late and a dollar short[:bigsmile:] |
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