Lures and Rain ?

[Adam_777]

So your going fishing in the evening.An hour or so before sundown and same after the sun goes down.The month of June tide is dropping,rain is coming down good.Do you keep your lures down deep or try and make that pencil bring one up ?Is there a certain way to fish in the rain that works ? I go out in it but haven't heard much discussion on it.Looking for some more tips for the bag from the Pro's.



If you don't fish in the rain.Feel free not to chime in !

[BigFish]

Rain, especially in May.....gives me some of the best topwater fishing of the season! I love sloppy days in May! Fish don't know its raining....sure its something to do with barometric pressure or something! Try the top first and if you have no luck....go deeper!

[BassDawg]

LOVE the rain, and so do the feeshes!
During full moons i pray for cloud cover, pissing rain.
Two of my biggest bites last year were cloud covered, rain soaked fulls, right tide, right place. Still chunked, eeeeeeeled, and sluggoed. imho, it makes them bolder and adds cover to the night.

Use whichever plugs work without the rain at yer spot.
Only in gale force would i change up to a HAB'S gale force needle, BM Cowboy, jig and pig, diving darter, or a weighted rigged sluggo. something to get deep and stay deep thru the retrieve .

[piemma]

Doesn't have anything to do with the rain specifically. It's the barometric pressure.

I know 2 Narragansett sharpies who have consistently caught the biggest and the most Stripers year in and year out for 20+ years.

They have made a science of the barometric pressure rises and drops and how it affects the bass bite. They may not be right all the time but they are right more times then not.

I have had discussions with them and they really charted the pressure and the resulting fishing and the one thing the remained constant was that Bass bite on a front. High pressure coming in, low pressure coming in. It didn't matter. When there was a dramatic change in barometric pressure the bass turned on.

[Pete F.]

I know freshwater does'nt count but as soon as it starts raining hard the big trout come out. My understanding is that the rain hitting the waters surface provides cover with sound-vibrations so that the predator can surprise the prey. Might not matter in the surf but in the back bays it should make as much difference as it does in a river trout fishing.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by bluefishercat

I know freshwater does'nt count but as soon as it starts raining hard the big trout come out. My understanding is that the rain hitting the waters surface provides cover with sound-vibrations so that the predator can surprise the prey. Might not matter in the surf but in the back bays it should make as much difference as it does in a river trout fishing.

When I was an avid trout fisherman I was told the reason the trout bite better in the rain is because insects get washed into the streams and ponds.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Rain, especially in May.....gives me some of the best topwater fishing of the season! I love sloppy days in May! Fish don't know its raining....sure its something to do with barometric pressure or something! Try the top first and if you have no luck....go deeper!

they know its raining alright. like you said the sense the pressure drop. lateral lines are cool for things like that.

that said, in the rain i used to like sub surface. 2-3 inches down.. or how ever far you can get it and still make a wake. i suppose in that case surface works too. problem i had is when i was pluggin like crazy.. (depending on how hard it was comin down) i had nothing that churned up the surface enough to go fully top water. alot of surface lures rely on splashing around and causing a raucous. if they rain is really comin down it's hard to make alot of plugs louder than the rain drops. so i stuck with anything that swam and vibrated under water. i just feel like it's easier to hone in on. fish will come up to the surface more willingly in the rain. just hafta figure out a way to get their attention over the din of the rain.

also i found rain to be all nice and what not.. but if the storm is gonna be a doozy i find the bite to be great just before up till the start of the storm. something about the pressure levels dropping to a certain level sets them off and once it gets to low turns them off.
but what do i know i had a crappy year last year.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

Originally Posted by piemma

Doesn't have anything to do with the rain specifically. It's the barometric pressure.

I know 2 Narragansett sharpies who have consistently caught the biggest and the most Stripers year in and year out for 20+ years.

They have made a science of the barometric pressure rises and drops and how it affects the bass bite. They may not be right all the time but they are right more times then not.

I have had discussions with them and they really charted the pressure and the resulting fishing and the one thing the remained constant was that Bass bite on a front. High pressure coming in, low pressure coming in. It didn't matter. When there was a dramatic change in barometric pressure the bass turned on.

you beat me too it! but now i feel validated in something.. finally.

[Raven]

that rain influences is the PH of the water

as well as the water getting aerated
by the raindrops hitting it from
way up in the clouds

plus bait fish feel less threatened in rain
camouflaged water

as it helps to hide them
so the bait fish get active

followed by the predator
doing the same