Maybe the barometer crashed as the wind came up and put the fish off the bite..was fishing on the coast in the wind yesterday..Wind came up, waves got wooly, tide was coming in and I got soaked by a wave just after casting out..walked back to my spot and propped the rod in my arms and I proceeded to empty my wellies of the water inside..As I was emptying the second boot, something smashed me down..and I missed it completely with one boot on my foot and the other in me hands..so also thing with fishing is, you just never know.
My mate who was a springbok, professional guide and published shark fishing expert..he would look at the koi in his pond every morning when he fed them..They would seemingly correlate with the fish in the sea and their days of being on the bite or off the bite.. Those mornings when the carp/koi were climbing out of the water to get to the pellets, those days he would go fish! It would follow barometer rises and falls..the specifics of which you'd have to look up. Funny in the sea, it can be windy and cold etc..and the fish are biting, I could be catching shad after shad one evening, bite after bite, then the actual front passes over and the spits of rain start..The bite dies and too many times I've sat there like a d00s thinking the rain will just hold off and I just want to get one more to fill a quota or catch a fish to share so I'll stay, until the drops of rain get harder and next thing the heavens open over my head and I'm soaked to the bone and the bite has gone dead..I've figured sometimes in waterproofs hey, what the hell I'll just stay out on a rock and ride it out and wait for something to eat my last bait but the fish just seem the disappear when the rain pours..I reckon it is barometer..They will go on the feed as it starts to drop, feed as it drops, but as it crashes and hits the floor, they are looking for some place to ride it out and take shelter, same as we would? As it rises, they come out and look for food disturbed by the weather, they have been parking off, their tummies are empty and they are hungry, they will feed as the barometer pushes up again and go off when it peaks again as then conditions have become too still and oxygen is less in water and food not in abundance..until approaching weather tells them to fatten up again. I think it is deep in the evolved biology of the creatures even the ones far removed from the storms and tides these days. That's my guess. But to be taken with a pinch of salt, as some fish will just follow the food and feed whenever the opportunity presents itself, and when the collective tummies of the shoal are empty from the previous feed, its time to go do it again..if the right meal is presented in front of the fish it will eat it..Sometimes sighted huge fish sitting in rock pools basically, stunned from cold water and bad weather, not hungry, not interested in any bait or lure, even if dropped in front of their noses but then gently cast/throw a livie on a single hook in the middle of them, the predator instinct kicks in and watch as all hell breaks loose! Right bait and right spot and the rest doesn't matter..So persevere...
