![]() Once at the Delta, a low pressure system moved in and everyone else thought, “oh, a cold front”, and slowed down. Low pressure turns them on even if it’s cold. High pressure turns them off even with wind. Tai feels that bass are affected by barometric pressure more than any other single condition. A great low pressure front could be on the way ![]() High pressure right now, but check that big cloud on the horizon. He got second place in that tournament by reading the weather. The final day was the same – starting out with high pressure then going low. On the second day of that tournament, there were low clouds off in the distance, and Tai impatiently waited for them to get over him, then picked up a crank and culled out four times. He ran into a buddy who was completely perplexed and asked him, “where did all the fish go?” The fish were still there, the pressure just called for a slow bait. That’s the difference pressure can make, scientific proof or not. So he put down all of his reaction baits, picked up a drop shot, and managed to catch seven fish that day. But experience told him “Watch out! You know what’s coming!”, and on the first day of the tournament he threw a Yamamoto buzzbait, got four bites in 20 minutes, and missed them all except one that the trailer hook got on the outside of its mouth. The clouds were low and he caught fish on nearly every bait he threw. With a clear, high pressure day like this, Tai downsizes and slows his baitsĪt Mead a couple of years ago, he had just two days of practice, and those practice days were awesome. “On days like this,” says Tai, “I throw a slow-moving bait like a Yamamoto Hula Grub on a jig, or a Senko, or a Ned rig.” Once the pressure drops again, he’ll pick up a Yamamoto Heart Tail Swimbait. Tai says on a day like this you’ll see no clouds except for thin wispy ones, birds will be just sitting around, and the reaction bite will be almost nonexistent. High pressure makes it a great day for a picnic, but it can be a bad day for a fisherman unless you adapt. Once that low pressure front passes, though, it’s a whole different ball game. It’s all about reaction baits in a low pressure situation. When a storm is coming, the pressure drops and the fish get active. The next day, the weather was clear, but he couldn’t get a bite. He remembers fishing as a storm came in, catching fish on a crankbait on nearly every cast. ![]() If those days happen to be your tournament days, you better have a plan.įirst of all, Tai uses barometric pressure to help him select the type of baits he’ll be using on any given day – it’s a lesson he began learning when he was twelve years old. Generally, though, the poor bite lasts only the first day or so of a high pressure front. Those high thin wispy clouds mean high pressure and fine weather, but possibly not very good fishing. This is what Tai likes to see when he gets to the lakeĪnyone can see a storm coming, but Tai is such a cloud watcher that he can tell if the pressure is dropping by the type of clouds in the sky.
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