05-12-2013, 06:37 PM
"... The day went from a big question mark to a big exclamation point and all that needed to happen was for some clouds to move in. Crazy how that works sometimes. There may not have been a lot of fish, but my time spent was rewarded with a valuable lesson in the workings of the enigmatic Deer Creek browns. ..."
Wow! Great catches! Great photography! Significant observations!
What can be learned from this? The combined knowledge of participants of our fine and large group must be immense, so this is a learning opportunity.
Your post is particularly important to me because I decided I want to focus on shore fishing with lures one more season and I'm thinking of maybe boat fishing after that, if we somehow have another year before nuclear war.
I want to understand the dynamics of this cloud phenomenon with catching brown trout.
What are the brown trout thinking? What are they seeing? Is the depth you were fishing a depth where they would be vulnerable to predators from the sky? We can easily observe when the birds are hunting and catching and if that's different in full sun or in cloud cover or if the birds move out of cloud cover to hunt in full sun, so anyone notice?
Do birds see fish deeper in the water with a beam of sunlight? When the birds hunt, are they diving into the water near their shadow? Are they using the brightness of the sun to obscure their approach from their prey by diving out of the sun? What do the Brown Trout know about this? Would the fish feel safer from predators from above in full sunlight by attacking your lure, if presented at greater depths? What is the depth limits of predatory birds? What was the range of depths likely from your lure presentations?
Are the lures different in appearance with direct sunlight? Did your lures have any shiny reflective surfaces to be producing flash?
What other questions should we be asking to discover the answers to the cloud phenomena?
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Wow! Great catches! Great photography! Significant observations!
What can be learned from this? The combined knowledge of participants of our fine and large group must be immense, so this is a learning opportunity.
Your post is particularly important to me because I decided I want to focus on shore fishing with lures one more season and I'm thinking of maybe boat fishing after that, if we somehow have another year before nuclear war.
I want to understand the dynamics of this cloud phenomenon with catching brown trout.
What are the brown trout thinking? What are they seeing? Is the depth you were fishing a depth where they would be vulnerable to predators from the sky? We can easily observe when the birds are hunting and catching and if that's different in full sun or in cloud cover or if the birds move out of cloud cover to hunt in full sun, so anyone notice?
Do birds see fish deeper in the water with a beam of sunlight? When the birds hunt, are they diving into the water near their shadow? Are they using the brightness of the sun to obscure their approach from their prey by diving out of the sun? What do the Brown Trout know about this? Would the fish feel safer from predators from above in full sunlight by attacking your lure, if presented at greater depths? What is the depth limits of predatory birds? What was the range of depths likely from your lure presentations?
Are the lures different in appearance with direct sunlight? Did your lures have any shiny reflective surfaces to be producing flash?
What other questions should we be asking to discover the answers to the cloud phenomena?
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