Anyone fishing during the eclipse? 2025
Neil McCauley reply :
Gonna be out all day. It's supposed to be 70% here, might be interesting. Anyone else?
Figure out your view here https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16019892/solar-eclipse-2017-interactive-map
CroakHunter reply :
It's 99% where I'm at. I hope to be asleep when it happens.
Rollincoal420 reply :
I will be for the last half of it. Not because of it, just by chance tho as I get out of work early afternoon and go fishing for an hr or 2 at that time daily.
scaleface reply :
Sore subject . I'll probably miss it because my wife has her own ideas on where to view it . I'll probably be stuck in traffic . If it was me , I would be on some gravel road set up right now .
12poundbass reply :
What eclipse?
Gundog reply :
On 8/21/2017 at 11:25 PM, 12poundbass said:What eclipse?
Haven't heard about it either. Did they mention it on tv? Does anybody else know about it? I knew I should have wore clean underwear today. Oh well.....
12poundbass reply :
On 8/21/2017 at 11:29 PM, Gundog said:Haven't heard about it either. Did they mention it on tv? Does anybody else know about it? I knew I should have wore clean underwear today. Oh well.....
Maybe the sun is going to eclipse the moon on the other side of the earth where it's night time. Would explain why we haven't heard anything about it.
riverbasser reply :
On 8/21/2017 at 11:29 PM, Gundog said:Haven't heard about it either. Did they mention it on tv? Does anybody else know about it? I knew I should have wore clean underwear today. Oh well.....
On 8/21/2017 at 11:52 PM, 12poundbass said:Maybe the sun is going to eclipse the moon on the other side of the earth where it's night time. Would explain why we haven't heard anything about it.
Hard to believe you guys haven't heard about it. Its not on the other side of the planet. Its a solar eclipse that will be going on from 12 to 3pm today (central time) its all everyone is talking about right now around here.
12poundbass reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 12:15 AM, riverbasser said:
Hard to believe you guys haven't heard about it. Its not on the other side of the planet. Its a solar eclipse that will be going on from 12 to 3pm today (central time) its all everyone is talking about right now around here.
I'm wondering if it's just a bunch of hype like Y2K?
riverbasser reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 12:17 AM, 12poundbass said:I'm wondering if it's just a bunch of hype like Y2K?
Not sure in what way you mean. Y2k was a hoax. This is just a rare natural occurrence when the sun and moon align.
Now there are a whole lot of crazy stories going around mainly claiming it is a sign of the end of the world or the return of Christ. Without going into it too far since that's not what this forum is about.
Jigfishn10 reply :
Yep, got my welders shield ready. 
12poundbass reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 12:26 AM, riverbasser said:Not sure in what way you mean. Y2k was a hoax. This is just a rare natural occurrence when the sun and moon align.
Now there are a whole lot of crazy stories going around mainly claiming it is a sign of the end of the world or the return of Christ. Without going into it too far since that's not what this forum is about.
It must be a hoax. I just looked in the sky and don't see the moon anywhere.
? Gundog and I were just messing around having a little fun. I think he was serious about not changing his underwear though.
On 8/22/2017 at 12:31 AM, Jigfishn10 said:Yep, got my welders shield ready.
You got the right ones? Don't want you going blind.
riverbasser reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 12:36 AM, 12poundbass said:It must be a hoax. I just looked in the sky and don't see the moon anywhere.
? Gundog and I were just messing around having a little fun. I think he was serious about not changing his underwear though.
You got the right ones? Don't want you going blind.
Gotcha. Always hard to tell sarcasm over text
Gundog reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 12:36 AM, 12poundbass said:It must be a hoax. I just looked in the sky and don't see the moon anywhere.
? Gundog and I were just messing around having a little fun. I think he was serious about not changing his underwear though.
You got the right ones? Don't want you going blind.
Funny thing happened this morning. I woke up and my underwear was on backwards. Not sure how it happened or when. Pretty sure they were on the right way yesterday. I had to replace them anyway so it worked out. BTW, I don't think the eclipse had anything to do with it but I can't be 100% sure. One question. Is there gonna be another eclipse tomorrow or is it weekly like my subscription to Life magazine?
Jigfishn10 reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 1:14 AM, Gundog said:Funny thing happened this morning. I woke up and my underwear was on backwards. Not sure how it happened or when. Pretty sure they were on the right way yesterday. I had to replace them anyway so it worked out. BTW, I don't think the eclipse had anything to do with it but I can't be 100% sure. One question. Is there gonna be another eclipse tomorrow or is it weekly like my subscription to Life magazine?
Don't worry, you won't have to change your underwear for a few more years before another eclipse rolls around...you're good.
@12poundbass, they must be the right ones, "they" said they were safe. 
Koz reply :
We're in the 99% totality area and there's 11 minutes to the eclipse and....
it's cloudy and raining out!
But we'll be fishing this evening.
the reel ess reply :
Well, we drove about 20 miles to lake Wateree, SC and observed the 99.9% eclipse with no clouds. I took a rod and a Rooster Tail. I didn't see a sign of a fish, except for a school of shed, but it got pretty dark and cooler. We heard the cicadas and a whiporwill start up. It lasted maybe 3 minutes and it was over. But it looked dark on the horizon for another 10 minutes or so.
frosty reply :
We were at 95%, it started to get cloudy by the time I got to a place to stop to look at it, which was ok cause I could see it with just sunglasses when it was behind the clouds. Everything took on a yellow tint and the shadows were very sharp like everything was under a spotlight.
scaleface reply :
It was spectacular . I went where I wanted and my wife just had to shut up about it . LOL . No traffic , no clouds .
frosty reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 5:55 AM, scaleface said:It was spectacular . I went where I wanted and my wife just had to shut up about it . LOL . No traffic , no clouds .
You should watch being right like that, last time I tried it I didn't wake up for 2 days 
Russ E reply :
Was fishing Wyandotte county lake in Kansas City Kansas during the eclipse. was mostly cloudy ,but got to see it between the clouds a couple times. with the eclipse and clouds it was dark for nearly 10 minutes starting at 1:05 pm..
Caught a 2 lb bass on a Whopper Plopper in the middle of it all.
Now I can say I caught a bass during a full solar eclipse.
SuperCorona reply :
We started @ 6am this morning and fished until the lightning started up in the distance around 1pm. Major t-storm the rest of the afternoon and we didn't see anything. We did have a good time fishing and my wife finally caught her first LMB!
Neil McCauley reply :
Well that was lame. If I wasn't told there was an eclipse going on I am not sure I would have noticed anything. It did seem a little cooler and I didn't need as much sunblock in the afternoon though.
But FWIW....the bite as ON today. Just spent 2 hours cleaning perch, pumpkinseeds and rockbass. Some of the 'seeds were gigantic.
tander reply :
Well I fished through the whole thing. If I haven't know it was an eclipse, I never would have known it. Never took my sunglasses off, no I didn't look at it. Caught 4 from 12-3.
UPSmallie reply :
Was in 67% blockage area so didn't notice much, but during the eclipse the sky darkened a little as if it were partly cloudy with no clouds in the sky. During the actual eclipse I hooked into 2 Atlantic Salmon practically back to back. I think for those fishing when actually happening, fishing should have spiked at least a little.
pondbassin101 reply :
It was 85% coverage down here but I was stuck in school so no eclipse or fishing for me ???
A-Jay reply :
I didn't fish - but I did mow the lawn(s).
When I finished, the grass looked longer than before I cut it . . . . .
Must have been those darn Eclipse glasses.
A-Jay
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
Went out there today, it was pretty slow and I had to end my trip a little early than I want once I figured I forgot my fishing license and I was fishing main lake.
N Florida Mike reply :
I was working but kind of wanted to see it. Weatherman said it would be clearer out towards the beach so I had a stop out there and went.Rain and clouds!!
So after the stop I had about 15 minutes before the peak time ,now the weatherman says best chance for a break in the clouds is inland. So headed that way and toward a little litening in the clouds .Pulled over with several other onlookers and the sun popped out almost right on peak time.
I thought Id be able to see it without the solar glasses , Honestly, I couldnt see much difference, could not see the moon., but there were some cool sun bursts coming down. We were supposed to be 90% coverage but I was suprised it didnt get much darker than normal.
Fishes in trees reply :
I went out yesterday - cloudy & rainy - it got a little darker ( a very little bit darker ). If I hadn't known about the eclipse I just would have chalked it up to dark clouds. Caught a few fish - all slots - pretty slow day all in all, but beat the alternative of not going fishing and it was the only day this week that I could go.
Fishing Rhino reply :
On 8/22/2017 at 1:14 AM, Gundog said:Funny thing happened this morning. I woke up and my underwear was on backwards. Not sure how it happened or when. Pretty sure they were on the right way yesterday. I had to replace them anyway so it worked out. BTW, I don't think the eclipse had anything to do with it but I can't be 100% sure. One question. Is there gonna be another eclipse tomorrow or is it weekly like my subscription to Life magazine?
That's nothing. I woke up in my wife's underwear. Strange things happen during an eclipse.
As an aside, you can get Eclipse in a bottle.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I fished all day and during the eclipse, it was less than spectacular fishing.I caught 14 bass and 2 huge sunfish all day.
Oregon Native reply :
Did not want to fight any traffic so stayed close to home. Mowed yard ...finished a book....went golfing with my wife.
Still looking down at flowers....was a good day.
Rollincoal420 reply :
I didn't do so good. Didn't catch anything, but did manage to send a $5 tungsten weight across the cove. That's $15 in weights in 3 days. Lol.
Gundog reply :
I'm just glad its over. All day I was ascared of looking up. But now that my underwear is on the right way and Yetis haven't invaded my favorite lake I'm comfortable again.
Neil McCauley reply :
Few pics during peak
BCline reply :
I fished for an hour just before the eclipse began and landed one just over a pound. Had a few small bumps but couldn't get a hook in any of them. Went for another hour today and caught six all under a pound.
Wade Faulkner reply :
Bass fishing in Loxley, al. At 1 pm feeding frenzy among shad on top that lasted for 20 min then abruptly stopped. Interestingly no birds were working the shad until the eclipse ended. Caught 20 lbs (#10) all on top water whopper plopper
Sword of the Lord reply :
I hit my go to location about 4 hours before the eclipse. Caught 3 hogs and 1 dink. Went back during the eclipse and only caught 1 dink. 2 guys were there and caught 2 moderately sized bass. It's a posted catch and release location but those jerks kept them.
Paul Roberts reply :
I got to see "totality". But we weren't fishing. My family slept out under the stars on open rangeland in NE with a whole lotta Hereford's, yipping coyotes, and quite a few shooting stars. It was wonderful.
Eclipse lighting was... eerie. We looked at each other and asked why it was so... strange, and truly eerie. My son said it was the perfect setting for a zombie apocalypse. We see dusk and dawn and deeply overcast days often; What was so different about this lighting?
We decided it was the light quality. It was a “gray” light and we watched as color faded, leaving everything bathed in a “smoky” gray desaturated light. Since this was a mid-day event the shadows weren’t long like you’d see in the morning or evening, but short and faint. At totality -all 2+ minutes of it- things got dark enough to see some stars, and there was a “sunset”. It was a purple-red glow on the horizon but not just on one horizon; It was 360degrees. That was… weird. And very cool. Oh yes, the air got quite a chill to it too, and we put jackets on.
I’d read an article that claimed that animals can behave strangely during an eclipse. But the stories were anecdotal, and I was skeptical of many of them. One said that cows were reported to "all lie down”. Well since we were surrounded by Herefords and Angus we thought we’d wait and see.
We also had prairie sunflowers around us and if you’ve ever watched them they will turn to face the sun and follow it across the sky as the day progresses. We thought we’d check on them too. Nothing scientific; And I balked at setting up a time-lapse camera set-up. I was just going to enjoy the short-lived event with my family, and add my own anecdotes to the body of anecdotes out there.
Problem with all this anecdotal stuff, and the reason I am often skeptical (It’s been beaten into me over the years), is that all too often the observations don’t include what “normal” is, or simply what was happening before the “event”.
Here’s what the cattle did: At dawn they filed in to the waterhole, beneath a tall windmill. After tanking up they ran out to graze -literally. They exuberantly and playfully ran, bucked and bounced out into open range. They were really cute. Elk do this too, after being bedded up for a spell and with the early morning air being so cool.
Our cattle grazed until late morning, when the sun got hot (brilliant blue day), when they all laid down. Just like elk; Although elk lie down in cover, and the second the sun strikes them. At totality we glanced over and noticed that most of the cattle had stood back up. Cue to head to sleeping quarters, feeling a little “eerie”, or… just needing to stretch? Elk do this too; About late morning to mid-day they often stand up to stretch and feed a bit before lying back down. The cattle were not grazing, just standing there in what could have been taken for “feeling a little eerie”. So… I can’t say much about cattle behavior during total mid-day eclipses.
The sunflowers? Well... we noticed they were still facing the eclipsed sun. No surprise since they are not physically all that fast to begin with. Some, we noticed, had their petals a bit folded up. Some flowers close entirely by nightfall. But, we didn’t know if this variety of sunflower did. And, we noticed, only a few were so folded. Kinda like the cattle -not all were standing. Were those flowers so folded before the eclipse happened? We hadn’t really thought to notice what to notice beforehand.
All I can say is, it came and went pretty quickly, made us feel a bit “eerie", and then it was over, leaving us to feel like we didn't really have time to appreciate it. Oh yes, it caused my son to get all giddy and start running around wanting us to run too. But then again, he was doing that on and off well before the eclipsing began. In fact, he’s doing it right now! Gimme that foam sword boy and I’ll show you a thing or two!
frosty reply :
On 8/23/2017 at 4:07 AM, Paul Roberts said:I got to see "totality". But we weren't fishing. My family slept out under the stars on open rangeland in NE with a whole lotta Hereford's, yipping coyotes, and quite a few shooting stars. It was wonderful.
Eclipse lighting was... eerie. We looked at each other and asked why it was so... strange, and truly eerie. My son said it was the perfect setting for a zombie apocalypse. We see dusk and dawn and deeply overcast days often; What was so different about this lighting?
We decided it was the light quality. It was a “gray” light and we watched as color faded, leaving everything bathed in a “smoky” gray desaturated light. Since this was a mid-day event the shadows weren’t long like you’d see in the morning or evening, but short and faint. At totality -all 2+ minutes of it- things got dark enough to see some stars, and there was a “sunset”. It was a purple-red glow on the horizon but not just on one horizon; It was 360degrees. That was… weird. And very cool. Oh yes, the air got quite a chill to it too, and we put jackets on.
I’d read an article that claimed that animals can behave strangely during an eclipse. But the stories were anecdotal, and I was skeptical of many of them. One said that cows were reported to "all lie down”. Well since we were surrounded by Herefords and Angus we thought we’d wait and see.
We also had prairie sunflowers around us and if you’ve ever watched them they will turn to face the sun and follow it across the sky as the day progresses. We thought we’d check on them too. Nothing scientific; And I balked at setting up a time-lapse camera set-up. I was just going to enjoy the short-lived event with my family, and add my own anecdotes to the body of anecdotes out there.
Problem with all this anecdotal stuff, and the reason I am often skeptical (It’s been beaten into me over the years), is that all too often the observations don’t include what “normal” is, or simply what was happening before the “event”.
Here’s what the cattle did: At dawn they filed in to the waterhole, beneath a tall windmill. After tanking up they ran out to graze -literally. They exuberantly and playfully ran, bucked and bounced out into open range. They were really cute. Elk do this too, after being bedded up for a spell and with the early morning air being so cool.
Our cattle grazed until late morning, when the sun got hot (brilliant blue day), when they all laid down. Just like elk; Although elk lie down in cover, and the second the sun strikes them. At totality we glanced over and noticed that most of the cattle had stood back up. Cue to head to sleeping quarters, feeling a little “eerie”, or… just needing to stretch? Elk do this too; About late morning to mid-day they often stand up to stretch and feed a bit before lying back down. The cattle were not grazing, just standing there in what could have been taken for “feeling a little eerie”. So… I can’t say much about cattle behavior during total mid-day eclipses.
The sunflowers? Well... we noticed they were still facing the eclipsed sun. No surprise since they are not physically all that fast to begin with. Some, we noticed, had their petals a bit folded up. Some flowers close entirely by nightfall. But, we didn’t know if this variety of sunflower did. And, we noticed, only a few were so folded. Kinda like the cattle -not all were standing. Were those flowers so folded before the eclipse happened? We hadn’t really thought to notice what to notice beforehand.
All I can say is, it came and went pretty quickly, made us feel a bit “eerie", and then it was over, leaving us to feel like we didn't really have time to appreciate it. Oh yes, it caused my son to get all giddy and start running around wanting us to run too. But then again, he was doing that on and off well before the eclipsing began. In fact, he’s doing it right now! Gimme that foam sword boy and I’ll show you a thing or two!
Interesting observations. I noticed a yellow tint to everything, like looking at an old photograph. The shadows were very sharp edged, like everything was under a spotlight. Of course we were in the 90%-95% range. I heard that birds would start to roost near the area of totality. I also heard my dog would stand up and talk... stupid dog never could do anything right!
scaleface reply :
On 8/23/2017 at 4:07 AM, Paul Roberts said:
I didnt even bother with pictures . There were going to be a million photos taken , so I just observed as much as possible in three minutes . The time leading up , was exciting , then totality .Then like a cosmic orgasm , it was over .
Paul Roberts reply :
On 8/23/2017 at 6:02 AM, scaleface said:I didnt even bother with pictures . There were going to be a million photos taken , so I just observed as much as possible in three minutes . The time leading up , was exciting , then totality .Then just like that , it was over , like a cosmic orgasm .
I hear you. I set up a tripod ahead. Whacked a few shots and that was all. I wasn't looking to "cover" the event. Quality photography is a job in itself. Gotta decide when and where to put your time.
"Cosmic orgasm" LOL. After, you are left wondering what all that was about.
toni63 reply :
I worked till about an hour before totality, then took off to meet up with my wife at her office about 20 minutes before. It was 99.5 where I was at. If I had been of a mind to, I could have driven an hour south on some country roads and been inside totality. I've been in the 90% plus range before, so I figured that half percent wouldn't be a big deal. I couldn't have been more wrong.
The streetlights came on and the locusts went nuts, just like a normal dusk. It got noticeably cooler at totality too, like it dropped a good ten degrees. Shadows were oddly weird, very sharp and distinct but the lit areas really lacked "brightness." Anyway, after it was over it lit up pretty fast and I had towed my boat with me because immediately after it was over I headed off to go fishing.
Fishing wasn't much. Went to a new lake, caught a few dinks and a couple keepers over about 5 hours.
All in all, if I ever get near totality again, and next time my house is going to be dead center in that track, I am hoping for clear skies again and I will get in totality. From what I have heard and now experienced, even 99.5% is a big let down from totality. Funny thing I head was Carbondale, ground zero, was bright and sunny right up until about 3 minutes before totality then some wispy clouds moved in and blocked the sun for about the length of time of totality and then they moved away. Maybe not all of Carbondale, but that is what some friends who live there told me was there experience where they were standing. Darn the luck!
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