barometric pressure affects on fishing

[seanie35]

how does barometric pressure affect shore angling, I know lows can bring about more surf and highs more settled weather but is there more to it than that

[alby]

Yes mate,

It plays a huge part, especially to lure anglers for bass. Read some of Jim Hendrick's articles and you'll pick up tonnes of info.

Smoothhounds too feed well after a settled high pressure spell, although as well as the barometric pressure the clear water will help.

I've seen fishing totally go off after a drop in pressure so i'm sure it holds some weight with shore anglers too.

Also after reading Bob Moss's excellent books, he keeps an eye out for low pressure systems out in the atlantic which in turn bring good surf conditions onto the atlantic facing storm beaches in Dingle.

Very interesting subject, hopefully we can get a few more people to shed more light on it

[seanie35]

yeah alby there has to be more to it than rough or calm, I know it can affect sea trout fishing in small rivers (no surf) maybe air temps associated with weather systems also have something to do with the variations aswell

[Paul Harris]

I have found that if we have several low pressures around us then the fishing for ray and huss in particular is very poor but immediately picking up when high pressures start to show.
A shark fishing friend of mine says the same and now hardly ever bothers fishing for shark if the low pressures are around. Cannot say about other species so much and perhaps it affects these fish more because of their cartilage skeleton.