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This Saturday I was thinking of doing a trip w/ my cousin to fish spruce run reservoir for the first time. They are showing 30% chance of thunderstorm. I live about an hour away. Should I head there or do you guys recommend on going somewhere closer like passaic river and wait for a better day?

Mike

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Go for it...bring raingear.....bring a plastic garbage bag to wrap your tackleboxes in case it does rain.....FISH ON!!!!

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I saw chance of Tstorms later in the day like afternoon. Get there at sunrise and u wont be too pissed if u gotta head off in the afternoon. Little rain isnt bad but if it pours Id like more than electric/9.9 to get back to my truck LOL

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If I were you I would wait til tomorrow night to check the weather. That said I should be there
Saturday. I'll personally go at 30% all the time....especially because my fishing is limited to weekends. I just check the radar every once in awhile on my phone.

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Thanks guys and jimmythegreek if it pours that's when my 9.9 better do some damage coming in lol

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Go ahead and chance it.
If you don't do anything - then nothing will happen.
If you go, you might get rained on , or you might have a great day fishing.



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chance of thunderstorms = unstable barometer = good fishing weather
i would go

don't be reckless though, if you start hearing thunder, get off the water

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don't you know by now the weathermen are ALWAYS wrong......today was supposed to be 77 and partly cloudy when I left at 4:00 am.....by the time I was fishing it was misting almost all morning and more like 65....and I checked that specific area we were fishing.....GO FOR IT!!!

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Wait for Friday's forecast, and as long as there's no major thunderstorms, you're ok. I would go and hope for overcast weather (fully-clouded sky). Like acabtp said, an unstable barometer is great for fishing. But, head in if you hear thunder. I've been caught out in bad thunderstorms hiding under a bridge, it's no fun, nor safe-feeling.

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Thunderstorms usually last 10 or 15 minutes. Bring your rain gear and fish on. Fishing in crappy weather has lots of advantages. It often times has the fish moving and a lot of fair-weather fishermen stay off the water. I'm going fishing on Monday when there's practically 100% chance of thunderstorms. I'll betcha we'll be the only ones out there and I betcha we catch a musky.;)