TROPICAL FISH TO CHECK RESULTS

I've kept tropical fish for years. Currently we run a 50 gallon tank full of Angelfish in the family room, another full of Tetras between the kitchen and dining roon and a ghetto for nasty Chiclids in the library. My office fish include 30 gallons of Barbs and 30 gallons of Silver Dollars.

What's important here is behavior. Based on ten years living at a lake it seems that when my tank fish are active, the lake fish bite best. This, of course, requires close attention so you don't confuse the excitement of fish coming to the front of a tank when they hope for food with activity levels.

Barometric pressure -- fish seem to feed on the lows before storms -- seems more critical than any of the tables you see published here and there.

Then too, when we lived on saltwater, it was the difference between high and low water that keys results. Bigger differences meant more water movement and, generally, bigger fish.

Factor in biological keys like my old rose bush in California that put out its Stirling Silver blooms the same week striped bass ran in the rivers, and the elderberry bushes on Highway 20 that always turned gray when the brook trout bit well at Stirling Lake.

The result is a clear need for careful records so you can, as winter leisure permits, go back over a year or more of records to find your own keys.

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