Do you have pet fish?

[OttoDita]

Most of you probably already know this. But I didn't!!!!

Your pet fish, will tell you the barometric pressure, and of course barometric pressure effects fish. So basically, it tells you how the fish outside are acting. Weather thier sitting still doing nothing, or moving abouts etc. I read this tip the other night on a website. So I did some researching and found a bit of info on it.

Now, the funny thing is. I've been keeping goldfish for a few years, my pets. Burt and Bubbles But, never paid attention to how they act. I know thier healthy, I know when they eat etc. But never put 2 and 2 together......Duh.

So, any of you go fishing according to how your fishies are acting? Or use them as an "Good guessing gauge" ?

Thanks,
Shane

[DG]

In all the years I had angelfish, they never once rose to a caddisfly hatch and told me to go fishing. In looking back, they never had a lot of variation in their behavior of any sort.

I've long since stopped worrying about whether it is a prime time to fish or not. If I have the time, and the inclination, I will go fishing, regardless of what the fish might think of it.

I do worry a bit about someone who names their pet bubbles, tho.

[OttoDita]

I generally don't care either. I usually just go out and fish. But, I'm going to test it and keep track of it. Specifically when the fish is sitting at the bottom doing nothing. Is when I'm definitely going fishing. I want to see if fish bite, or are reluctant.

Haha, trailor park boys...Bubbles. BIG glasses, just like my bug-eyed gold fish I seen him in the petstore and said "Bubbles". Then took him home

Shane

[Clay]

I've been a koi keeper since 1995. To learn more about koi here is a good link: http://www.japan-nishikigoi.org/genealogy.html

I also am a fly rod carper. I find no relationship to my pets vs the fish that I pursue in the wild. It would be like looking at my wife's Yorkshire terrier to tell me how to coyote hunt. Yes, they're the same, BUT DIFFERENT.

If I am missing something here, I would love to be enlightened.

Rick

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

I have lots of fish in four tanks right in my fly tying/computer/aquarium room. It is impossible to tell what they are thinking because they see me as their only source of food. Unfortunately when I go fishing the fish I encounter there see me as a stranger. ( I know, nothing stranger than me, ha ha very funny your a real card. ) As a result wild fish do not all race to my end of the lake to attack whatever I throw in to them.

I do not use solunar tables nor do I worry about cold fronts etc. If I am fishing I am fishing, if they bite they bite. If I worried that it was the wrong time or the weather was not 100% or Jupiter was not aligned correctly with Mars I'd never get to go fishing.

Consider this also, when the moon is full the fish can feed safely all night long, safe from flying preditors.
Ergo in the daytime they are stuffed to the gills and not as apt to strike a wire thingy with feathers on it. On a dark moon they have to feed during the day thus are less picky. Its my theory and I'm sticking to it.

If you can find the fish you can make them bite.

[Panfisha]

I have 3 cardinal tetras in a 20 gallon tank that are as old as dust. They are coming up on their 4th birthday! Which is incredible by any standards. They are usually up around the top on sunny days, which would mean the fish are deep.

[namekagon]

I have an oranda goldfish;;;name???Goofy Guy cause he's the goofiest thing I've ever seen.
Did a search and maybe he's a youngster cause he don't look nothing like a oranda...maybe another bad buy at wally world.
The only time he moves is when he sees me and expects his fix for the day.

[James-FS]

I have a gold fish and it never moves it is too lazy to eat sometimes. I once wanted to see how it would react to a fly so I took the top off of the tank, cut the hook off of a fly, and set up my rod. With the butt end on the floor then I could cast without hitting the sealing, when I finally managed to cast into the tank the fish didn't even see the fly until it sank and hit it on the nose. Then it almost didn't even strike. This didn't mach the way the fish react when I'm fishing. Maybe if I got a gill from a local lake I would have better luck.

[jkurtz7]

I have a Pumpkinseed that I caught in the creek behind my house 3 years ago.
He no longer acts like a wild fish. His behavior is not unlike most other aquarium fish. He knows who feeds him and he acts the same everyday. Since he is no longer in the wild, he doesn't give a hoot about the barometric pressure.

J.

[DDRRedneck500]

i would put little faith in being able to use petfish to help determine how wild fish are acting. mainly because just today, i hit up 2 different lakes, one right after the other, similar water conditions, and had totally different reactions from the fish. im guessing it was mainly influenced different amounts of fishing pressure, but at one lake, i got four catfish and that was it. blugill and panfish were totally shut down. at the second lake, the bluegill were hitting great and not one catfish.
also, my fish are in a tank inside my house so i doubt their climate is going to be in anyway similar to the climate in the lakes.