Tips on fishing in different conditions (ie: cloudy)

[T'Ken]

One thing I'm having problems with is adjusting when the skies turn from sunny to cloudy. It's easy enough to look at the graph and adjust your time(s) based on that, but I still have trouble.

I've done some reading and haven't really found any consistent ideas. Some I read say to use darker colors when cloudy (ie: gold spinner) and again another says use lighter (ie: silver spinner) when cloudy.

So...what's your rule of thumb when conditions change?

[hunterPRO1]

i always considered gold brighter and silver duller but i really dont know.

[Lightning1961]

darker, smaller hook, slower retrieve, (for cloudy), and generally go a little deeper when pressure is low.

inb4 that's what she said :P

>>>Disclaimer<<<

This a "game", so rl may not translate perfectly, but general "fish sense" returns big dividends. ;)

[BonPadre]

Honnestly I'm one going with darker... I tend to follow and believe more the infos I got from the 2 old grandpas of fishing planet Hawkeye M and & Squatchcraft (Dulakaba)

For instance same grub, cloudy day early morning, nothing bites on yellow, but I get way more bites on the green one. I personally consider the green one a darker, less flashy color...
But now, also take into account that I have seen comments saying fishes in game also loose track of the red color faster than any other colors, so even if the red is (again by my standards, considered darker...) if I get bites during mid afternoon, I know that late afternoon is time for a change. Again all that for me is about grubs.

Now with the narrow spoon, early morning and very late evening I get a lot of good results with the black one, but mid afternoon, I get far better results with the amolite (purple one... and purple is having the red color into it... again)

As far as silver and gold spoons... I'm not a great fan of them, as I often found other spoons and lures which gave me more and quicker bites... so I usually use them if I get nothing else working... but that's me... but gold for cloudy and silver for sunny is what I got...

No proof of anything on my part, just how I do it and from the rates of catches I often had in Texas, Missouri and Colorado, compared to the other guys in the room, I assume it works for me at least. As this pic will demonstrate, was quite proud at the time to fill my 50kg (~100lbs) in a full fishing day in Colorado. was a sunny day, so for sure the cloudy days are slower... but as Lightning mentionned too, slower retrieve helps a lot too.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=807956805
And that one so you can see the in game timer rate of catches for me (Haileene)...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=807956737

[sirkipalot]

Originally posted by Lightning1961:

darker, smaller hook, slower retrieve, (for cloudy), and generally go a little deeper when pressure is high.

inb4 that's what she said :P

>>>Disclaimer<<<

This a "game", so rl may not translate perfectly, but general "fish sense" returns big dividends. ;)

Not so my old friend high pressure low oxygen fish will be shallower. Low pressure more volitile weather more oxygen fish feed better in these conditions. Do not trust the game parameters like everything else it is so far off we might as well be ice fishing :D

[waznewz]

Originally posted by Bahnzo:

I've done some reading and haven't really found any consistent ideas. Some I read say to use darker colors when cloudy (ie: gold spinner) and again another says use lighter (ie: silver spinner) when cloudy.

So...what's your rule of thumb when conditions change?

seems very random to me.. some cloudy days, fish wants the bright lures, other cloudy days a darker one works better.
today i had 2 cloudy days in a row. same spot, same time, same type of fish.. day 1 was Lemon crank day, day 2, turned out to be 'Perch' crank day.

So im not sure you will ever be able to make a 'rule', best i have come up with, after some 800 hours.. trial and error.. :-)

[Lightning1961]

Originally posted by sirkipalot:

Originally posted by Lightning1961:

darker, smaller hook, slower retrieve, (for cloudy), and generally go a little deeper when pressure is high.

inb4 that's what she said :P

>>>Disclaimer<<<

This a "game", so rl may not translate perfectly, but general "fish sense" returns big dividends. ;)

Not so my old friend high pressure low oxygen fish will be shallower. Low pressure more volitile weather more oxygen fish feed better in these conditions. Do not trust the game parameters like everything else it is so far off we might as well be ice fishing :D

Oops! Old Timer's strikes again! Correction made. Thanks for noticing my flub.