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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I'll bet just about all of us at one time or another fished on days where anything and everything were working. I've personally had days when the line releases were pulled right out of my teeth as I was pulling in the Planer board tether line to attach them. The mood of the fish during these times are obvious, and positive would be an understatement. But how many ways and signs are there too read a fishes mood and adjust your fishing strategies accordingly, to discover or uncover what would work best for that mood? I have learned and can read many of the fishes mood signs for both the open water and the rivers I fish. These clues and signs I've learned on my favorite bodies of water for the most part are universal and may apply on most bodies of water, but not always. Instead of me listing all the ones that give me clues about what fishing strategies I need to employ or change during a tough fishing day, lets open it up for discussion and we all may learn something new. I'll start it off with an easy one. Finding schools of both bait and predator fish on your graph, and just where in reference in the water column those fish are located to each other tells me a lot about the fishes mood. | |
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| Good Topic, Dan.
Mood, hard to say what the fish's mood is, in general most of the females seem to be b*%&%y and the males are generally jovial. 
Seriously, I look at temp, weather, and water clarity as indicators to how the mood may be changing. In general I like to work as fast as i can and cover more ground as the fish will allow. But, if you know the water temp has dropped or the sun just came out, or the water in a river is getting a bit more dirty. I'll start slowing down a presentation where there are known fish.
Yes, there are exceptions to every rule, and just knowing the environment and situation can be all the difference when adjusting to these changes.
Edited by Jayman 2/25/2008 10:54 AM
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I think the moods of a fish are something like our own, minus the emotional factor. Both are often influenced by external or environmental factors we have little control over and a lot is determined by both our physical comforts. I've also noticed that fish can be in two different moods at the same time in the same body of water. Whereas the ones high in the water column are more aggressive and the ones at the bottom more negative or fussy. I sometimes think this has much to do with the fishes size and the pressure on his swim blater during changing in barometric pressures. I've also been privy to feeding frenzy's that happen on the river from one minute to the next when severe weather changes happen. But ever notice that those little juvenile fish are almost always in the feeding mood. Their little swim/air bladders don't feel the pressures that the bigger ones feel. This is of course is just my own feelings and opinions on the matter. | |
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| Little fish vs big fish? I think it's the Thansgiving Dinner syndrome. Us old guys(big fish) always get tired and take a nap after TurkeyDay dinner, while the young guys(little fish) go out and play, and burn it off. They then become hungry much sooner. Plus they are still in their growth stage, and need to eat more often.
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Reading a fishes Mood.