04-05-2019, 10:31 PM
It's complicated. Most the time any storm that produces any significant amount of precipitation will increase feeding activity in the few hours leading up to the start, and then shut off the bite for 3 days or so after. Sometimes that period before the storm is a good time to get struck by lightning, so play at your own risk. Fish will tend to move deep after the storm and eat less which means bank anglers are out of luck.
Really though the two defining conditions are barometric pressure and temperature. Rapidly changing pressure stimulates fish appetites, low pressure settling in after a cold front shuts it down. Colder temperatures on the surface during warm months can move fish to the shallows, while the same colder temperatures during cold months will move them deeper. Steady barometer for several days means steady fishing except when it's trout and it's warm. If hot weather has been sitting on top of a lake for a few weeks and the surface temperature is 65+ trout are going to be deep no matter how steady the weather has been.
If it rains hard on Utah Lake tomorrow fishing won't be good for a few days but that other storm coming in on Tuesday might get them feeding in ahead of the weather. Nightfishing up until 10:00 or 11:00 tonight might be good.
Edit: Ohhhh yeah, what TD said about the shallowness and visibility. Wind on Utah Lake is a huge factor due to the crap it stirs up.
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Really though the two defining conditions are barometric pressure and temperature. Rapidly changing pressure stimulates fish appetites, low pressure settling in after a cold front shuts it down. Colder temperatures on the surface during warm months can move fish to the shallows, while the same colder temperatures during cold months will move them deeper. Steady barometer for several days means steady fishing except when it's trout and it's warm. If hot weather has been sitting on top of a lake for a few weeks and the surface temperature is 65+ trout are going to be deep no matter how steady the weather has been.
If it rains hard on Utah Lake tomorrow fishing won't be good for a few days but that other storm coming in on Tuesday might get them feeding in ahead of the weather. Nightfishing up until 10:00 or 11:00 tonight might be good.
Edit: Ohhhh yeah, what TD said about the shallowness and visibility. Wind on Utah Lake is a huge factor due to the crap it stirs up.
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