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Originally Posted by Newbie
By the way, is fishing after the rain have a better chance to catch a fish?
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It depends on where you are fishing and what type of fish you are looking for.
On lakes, a little rain can really help because the runoff will wash bugs and other food into the water. Fish will move shallower and look for stuff to eat.
On rivers, some rain can be good but too much can result in flooded conditions that pretty much shut things down until the water recedes a little bit.
Catfish LOVE muddy water after a big rain, and some of my best catfishing days have been after a big storm when everything is really muddy.
On the other hand, catfish feed by smell, and most other gamefish feed by sight. So if it gets really muddy from a big storm, it can be harder to catch the fish that sight feed at least part of the time (like bass, trout, and bluegill).
This post is over-simplifying a bit. Sometimes there are exceptions where you can have a really good day fishing for bass or trout even after storm runoff hits.
But as a
basic rule:
1. Rain is good if it doesn't make things really muddy.
2. If it makes the water really muddy so that there is no visibility, rain will shut the fishing down for a couple days until it starts to clear up again.
3. If you are fishing for catfish, the really muddy water does not shut it down, and sometimes the day after a big storm when things are really muddy is the best time to go.
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