mizefish
12/19/2018 9:27:58 AMAnd are you saying the cutts prefer steady pressure, higher pressure, lower pressure, or moving pressure. As a bass guy, I've always heard that lower pressure is better, and pressure MOVING lower is the best, like just before a storm. Different preferences for cutthroats? Also, I caught a female on Saturday whose flesh wasn't the typical bright peach color I'm used to. Paler, more like raw chicken. Taste seems a bit off also. Do spawning cutthroats experience a "boot" stage like spawning salmon?
FastActionGS
12/19/2018 5:11:06 PMPressure moving is great! The lateral line in fish is an organ that helps them predict weather. If they sense a storm, they aggressively feed since they don’t know when the next opportunity is. Low pressure once it settles isn’t great.
Low pressure makes the fish dive to balance out their organs. As we all know from swimming, the deeper we go our ears pop and our head feels compressed as pressure builds on our bodies. So, fish dive to balance the pressure they lose from the air pressure (barometric pressure). As pressure rises, they settle back to normal.
So, low pressure is bad, high pressure dropping is good, low pressure rising is ok , and pressure above the sea level average is better than low pressure.
mizefish, steady pressure is good after a couple days as they balance out and get hungry. Dropping means they are aggressive.
I read the comment on sharphooks post, and I appreciate the kind word my friend. Hope to see you out there, and I hope my midge prediction is correct!
I’m hopeful due to the amount of fish we are marking. I’m still marking tons from end to end on the lake.
Also, give me a call sometime mizefish and let’s talk shop! I have some ideas to share with you!
Ben Eggertsen
12/19/2018 11:08:55 AMFastActionGS
12/19/2018 5:13:14 PMTMBob
12/19/2018 7:33:58 PMFastActionGS
12/19/2018 9:25:36 PMMainly on the boat I will google the pressure for my closest city or zip code, or if not the apple weathwr app has a barometer reading.
But as Mizefish says, weathwr underground is good.
For my marine forecasts, I use national weather service
stevertd2010
12/21/2018 9:45:30 PMhttps://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/wa/sammamish/KWASAMMA59?cm_ven=localwx_10day
For up to date data on the lake go to King County Weather bouy data.
https://green2.kingcounty.gov/lake-buoy/
Just hover over the red marker in the water and it will provide current data.