Just want to give a quick Hello to you guys since I'm a newbie to the site. I like topics like this so I figured I'd make it my first post. Like the site and hope to contribute something useful.
anyway.................
I agree with Raven...The smaller the organism, the more affected it is by barometric pressure. It's not the fact that fish higher in the food chain are affected ( though they are ), the bigger factor is that their food is. Stripers seem to zip their mouths during high pressure because since the food is not active or has left the area searching for their own dinner, they lower their activity to preserve energy stores until the bait comes back and it is more feasible to expend energy when it can easily be replenished and stored to a greater capacity than before. Stripers will still hit when given the opportunity, they just won't chase as much. This is why slow and low techniques work so well at this time for fish that don't follow the bait to deeper water.