What effects fishing the most?

Question

pressure, cover, temperature ,wind, rain, species total, or any other condition you can think of i didn't mention and why?

Answer 1

Abalone_Girl is right!

YOU!

Your good/poor confidence & ability/in-ability to "change with the environment/conditions" will be the biggest factor in a fisherman/fisherwoman catching fish on a CONSISTANT basis.

Lot's of "Fair-weather fishermen" can go out and catch fish "occasionally", but if you want to be a "consistant-catcher" of fishy's you've got to learn to "roll with the punches". And the only way to learn this "fisherman's-instinct" is through "trial & error",(thankfully, there are many books, videos, friendly advice, ETC, to help you along).

Learn the "instinct" and you have conquered 75% of fishing!

Answer 2

One factor you didn't mention is current. I guess in streams and lakes the current doesn't vary much, but in the ocean, water movement does change, and it definitely affects things. A current shift can abruptly turn a bite on or off, while all the other conditions you mentioned don't change at all.

As far as temperature, the water temperature matters much more than the air temperature. Another important factor is water clarity. Then there's light conditions -- both the presence or absence of clouds, as well as whether the sun is up or down.

But the bottom line is that there are so many factors, even beyond what's listed, that you can't really say for sure when the best or worst bites are going to be. I've had too many good bites in crummy conditions and too many slow days under seemingly "perfect" conditions to claim that I understand it.

Answer 3

mostly, going fishing is how you will catch the most fish.You won't know if you don't go. I have done great in weather that could be dangerous, or caught nothing under the seemingly best of conditions.
more time spent fishing is how you will do well. A great many records were broken in cold weather, or like the Kankakee River Illinois record walleye. It was caught at flood stage, under terrible fishing circumstances. Fish will bite, but not you aren't out spending time to catch them. Often the best fishing for an entire outing is a span of minutes. A day where you catch something often, is not too easily done. But, the more times, and the more time you spend gives you the edge. Forget water clarity, temps, all that other stuff. I mainly try various colors and sizes of lures. I like jigs and twisters for most fishing I do. One day white tails are good, another chartruse, or black, root beer, red/black, orange chartruse, chartruse/green. I find the cast you make, has more to do with catching the fish, over all other conditions. Mostly, the more time you spend, and the more times you go try fishing, will make you catch more fish overall.

Answer 4

All of the above, also I learned this one a long time ago...human scents. If you take a shower with some perfumey, deodorant soap (Irish Spring, i.e.), or use cologne, chances are you will get just enough on your line, hook, bait, anything that fish can come in contact with. And these scents are foreign to fish so they will be repelled by such scents. Bring a bar of Ivory soap with you whenever you fish, and wash your hands with it using the lake, river, or saltwater you're fishing in. And don't bathe with heavy scented crapola the day of, or the night before fishing. I read that a carp has 500,000 times the sensitivity of human olfactory sensors....

Answer 5

Food, shelter, and reproduction. Since very few fish reproduce during the summer, food and shelter effects fish the most. Food to survive, and shelter which lures big fish who hunt smaller fish. The shelter serves to protect smaller fish, and the big fish know that, so they wait until a smaller fish makes a mistake and swims a little too far from the protected shelter, and gulp.

Answer 6

You.


If your paying attention and watching for all those things that effect fishing, you are thing that effects the situation the most. It is easy to overlook that part of the quotient.

Answer 7

All of the above.

Answer 8

yes every thing that you typed.