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Always before the storm fishing gets good and then if it will be a major storm, the fishing gets great. That is why people take chances with their lives and stay out too late. Better to get off the water when you see the storm coming. Lightening may be ahead of the rain so do not wait for the downpour.
Remember, everyone will have the same thoughts of staying to the last minute and then there will be a line up at the launch and you will get wet and possibly be sitting there hoping you do not get hit by lightening while you wait to pull out. The first guy back to the launch is always the guy that will have trouble getting his boat on the trailer.
One folktale is that pike will not bite for 24 hours after a thunderstorm.
David
Big big big fish put on the frenzied feed bag before a thunderstorm! Afterwards I suspect they are truly exhausted from stress, the water is now stained and unsettled (debris, different odours from incoming streams and spillways) and do not strike. Just my thought.
Kerrazy
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When I used to fish largies a little, the best day I EVER had was from my float tube when a nasty thunderstorm blew me right down the lake. I was laughing, crying, freaking and catching bass after bass after bass the whole scary way through it
Moosebunk wrote:When I used to fish largies a little, the best day I EVER had was from my float tube when a nasty thunderstorm blew me right down the lake. I was laughing, crying, freaking and catching bass after bass after bass the whole scary way through it