effect of extremes in weather on fish?

[zimeric]

anyone have any idea how much fishing is effected when we have heat waves like the one last week?
do catch rates go down? Is it similar to having a cold front come through...

Ive noticed that straight after a cold front things hot up a bit.
does it work the same way with heat or is it just that peole just dont concentrate as much in the heat and miss the bites?

[Richo]

I thought a heat wave would give you a rising barometer, which is a good thing, gets them fired up...... warmer water seems to do that. Thats how I interpret it. Not sure how right I am.

cheers

last week was the 'trigger' down here for a termite (flying ant)hatch. That caused a LOt of trout to get very careless about feeding at the surface and I heard athat a few good trout were caught.

No doubt Bream also eat flying ants, so one might expect that they too would have had a banquette for a couple days maybe.

After such an event it's npot uncommon for trout at least (and probably bream too) to sit on the bottom with their bloated guts digesting the feed for a day or two and not show much enthusiasm for a feed.

I would expect the fishing to be a bit slower the day after such a natural food abundance event.

I well recall trucking in a large number of trout to stock a lake once for a fly fishing clinic weekend - and we deliberately didn't feed em a lot on the two days running up tothe weekend so they would be willing fly takers during the course.

Anyway - on the friday evening as everyone was arriving, there was a huge flying ant hatch and the trout went beserko and were visible in the hundreds for hours - long before anyone had even learn't how to cast yet...

They could be heard all night slurping down the acres of flying ants laying trapped in the surface film...and for the next two days we caught barely a couple fish between about 15 anglers trying pretty hard.

Such are the ways of nature, you just have to recognise the opportinities as they present,and bream would be smart enough to recognise a free feed I reckon.

Cheers!

[dan_WA]

I would've thought the heat wave would "waken" the fish out of their winter lethargy ...(not that they don't go bezerko in winter...)
The Murray was doing pretty well after the hot spell. The rising barometer normally get's them on the chew - like after a cold front