04-26-2022, 01:27 PM
(04-26-2022, 12:54 PM)MSM1970 Wrote: Seems like the fish are slow to wake up an play this year, at least your finding a couple to keep you coming back.
Yep. As you have found in your fishing world, the fish ain't playin' right this year. I talk to quite a few knowledgeable anglers and DWR folks who mostly agree that the up and down weather patterns have put the "normal" fishing into a "delayed" activity schedule. Combined with low water levels and increased fishing activities during the "Covid Crud" this has the fish patterns altered somewhat.
I am not a degreed biologist, but I have put a lot of independent study into the factors that influence fish behavior...notably spawning and other cycles. I have long known that there is a combination of two factors that have the greatest effect...length of daylight hours and water temps. In normal years the two coincide to bring off a predictable cycle. But in wierd years it can mess things up. Here is a quote from a web article I recently researched. "In the anatomy of fish in the brain there 's an organ called PINEAL GLAND, the pineal gland is programed ( by nature and evolution ) to begin to generate hormones and activate all the mechanisms that prepare the fish for the spawn. The pineal gland detects the amount of light hours and acts like a biological clock, only when the right amount of light hours are reached the pineal gland activates the mechanism. The right amount of hours matches the rise in water temperature in the spring."
We can only hope that we get a combination of a lot more water for the fishies and a more stable weather pattern for the anglers.