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Got a ? I am hoping someone can answer my ?.
Couple week ago my bride and I were fishing Otter Creek. In watching some of the folks nearby we were having more than our fair share of success.
At about 12 pm the wind picked up to I would guess to about 15mph. The bite totally stopped. We fished for another 1 1/2hrs then drug up.
The same thing happened to a friend at Otter Creek yesterday.
The only thing I can make of this is that there must have been large swings in the barometric pressure. I don't think there would be a lot of excess noise and have this bother the fish.
Thoughts?
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Seems that you could be right, a lot of times when the wind picks up and there is a drop in the temp, there is a storm front moving in and with a front the barometric pressure will change. Not sure if wind by itself, without a change in barometric pressure would cause the fish to stop biting though. Not sure if you ever look at the Solunar Calendar but it has has two periods during a day when the fishing is suppose to be best, usually one time in the morning and one time in the evening, although I don't have a lot of faith in these calendars, for Freshwater fishing at least, I have noticed there are times the catching will just stop, for no apparent reason, somethings they coincide with the calendar but not always.
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I've ice fished otter for many years and it has been my experience that it almost always drops off very quickly around noon. I have no idea why but I always make plans to go early and be ready to head out shortly after the noon hour. In the summer the bite often lasts all day, so I can't find any rhyme or reason why this happens.
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For the first few years I ice fished I noticed this same thing happening all the time, not just at otter creek but anywhere I was targeting mainly rainbow. I have discovered that rainbow, unlike pan fish and even other trout, sometimes won't bite at all with the wind constantly shaking the rod tip back and forth, even just a little bit. So now when the wind starts up and the bite stops I lay my rod straight on the ice with the spring bobber out over the hole. This stops all shaking and vibration, and often the fish just keep biting like they were before. Did this very thing down to otter creek a few weeks ago and kept catching them til we left. Got to be very attentive though or your rod will disappear down the hole.
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