Thunder in the air affect fishing?

I'm just wondering does this affect the fishing at all, my neighbour is always ranting on about when theres thunder in the air there wont be any fish, he reckons hes an experienced angler, is he just talking BS?

I've seen the fishing dry up a few times when thunder & lightning move in but always put it down to changes in barometric pressure putting the fish off the feed.

Having said that, lightning puts me off fishing too. Nothing worse than standing around with a sodding great carbon fibre lightning rod in your hands.....

i'm not too familiar with the whole science behind thunder and lightning, but as sandman said, there often is a sudden drop in barametric pressure during storms, and loads of crazy crap that scientists have still to get there heads around yet. all i know is i caught my personal best thornie in the middle of a thunder storm. so i dunno!

conger feed heavley when thers thunder in the air
salmon stop running both at sea and in the river
thunder def. affects fish
salmon will stop running up stresm for days before/after thunder

That's for the advice, but I didn't necessary mean that there had to be thunder, just in the air, threatening to come like, very heavy and warm feeling?

you're talking about changes in air pressure so. generally fishing does seem to go slack during any change of pressure, even if it does herald more favourable fishing conditions, but once it does stabilise the fish can switch on in a big way.

Both brown and sea trout definitly go off the feed even when theres thunder in the air. They could be rising like mad but suddenly stop and you wont see a rise for the rest of the day.

It definitely has an effect on freshwater species and I have noticed increase in catch when carp fishing during such conditions.

can remember fishing spurdog out of ballycastle on the boat a couple of years ago, in the morning the weather was grand, fishing was poor, in the afternoon it became pretty humid and overcast and the odd spur started to show, surely enough a thunder and lightening plump started and almost instantly the fishing went crazy! spurs were being caught 2 at a time and others were following hooked fish right up to the side of the boat. a skate was also hooked and lost during this period which lasted about 3/4 of an hour! the poor skipper was bloody soaked runnin round the deck unhooking fish for everyone with no wet gear on!
dont know if it was just coincidence or tide change or what? :shock:

Have to agree with sandman on this one, I dunno whether thunder affects the fishing but when the lightning comes it's not a good idea to be hanging on to a fishing rod! It'd when you realise that adrenilin is brown and smelly!