| The weather can impact your success or failure | | | | cold front is generally thought to have a negative |
| as an angler to a much greater degree than you | | | | effect on fishing. I've heard many people say that |
| may think. I used to just do fishing, with no | | | | fish seem to have lock-jaw immediately following |
| regard for how the weather might impact my | | | | a cold front. And on the other hand, the passing |
| fishing trip, and have since learned how big a | | | | of a warm front often implies that inclement |
| mistake that was. We all have less and less time | | | | weather is approaching and air pressures may fall |
| to actually get out fishing in the first place, so | | | | (which is important to fishermen). Many people |
| paying attention to how the weather might | | | | think of warm fronts as fish catching fronts. |
| influence our trip is a great idea. | | | | Many biologists attribute heavy feeding activity |
| The examination of the weather will give us more | | | | prior to the passage of a front to the fact that |
| insight into the behavior of fish than almost any | | | | the passage of a front very often means winds |
| other single study. Studying weather is also a | | | | and storms, which cloud the water and make |
| great idea to help keep you out of situations like | | | | feeding more difficult. There's something to keep |
| the one mentioned earlier. As we all know, being | | | | in mind. The bottom line is that the weather |
| comfortable while fishing is also important and few | | | | effects the behavior and feeding activity of the |
| things play a bigger role in an anglers comfort | | | | fish and can be used to the anglers advantage. |
| than the weather. Have you ever had the | | | | When fronts pass, the barometric pressure |
| pleasure of standing in a river when the weather | | | | changes. When the atmospheric pressure |
| changes and you're not dressed for it? I know | | | | fluctuates, it affects the air bladders in fish. A |
| from experience that this is absolutely no fun. | | | | fishes' air bladder is what it uses to stabilize itself |
| Without getting too crazy about how the weather | | | | at different depths of water. When a fishes' air |
| impacts fishing, let's discuss those things that are | | | | bladder isn't feeling right it won't want to eat. Do |
| easy to pay attention to. The first are fronts. | | | | you feel like eating when you have an upset |
| There are 3 types of fronts: Cold Fronts, Warm | | | | stomach? Well fish don't either, and changes in |
| fronts, and Stationary fronts. When you watch | | | | pressure can give them an 'upset stomach'. |
| the weather on the news, fronts are the lines on | | | | These are the basic ways that the weather |
| the weather map. They're normally red for warm | | | | impacts the behavior of fish. You can do more |
| fronts, blue for cold fronts, and a combination of | | | | research and get as crazy as you would like |
| read and blue for stationary fronts. | | | | about the effect the weather has on fishing, but |
| When a front passes over the river, stream or | | | | these basics are all that I need. I increase my |
| lake that you intend on fishing, it effects the | | | | odds of catching fish, by paying attention to the |
| behavior of the fish. Here's an example, As a cold | | | | weather and fishing accordingly. You can do the |
| front passes, the temperature and humidity fall | | | | same thing, and increase your odds as well. |
| and air pressure begins to rise. The passing of a | | | | |