7 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

There's ultra-fine dust here on horizonal outside surfaces. Anything I've touched has had it. Feels the like super fine baby powder that I wanted to wash off quickly.

That’s what I’m afraid of. I’m a clean truck nut and I’ve been hold up indoors for the last couple of days not because I’m scared but because I have the luxury that I can, and I’ll bet my iridium white truck is coated.  I loaned my pressure washer out to my daughter too.  She’s cleaning barn stall walls with it because I told her to stay off the tractor brush-hogging horse pastures.   

When the falling ash from the fires stars hitting the lake waters it does affect the fishing negatively.  

Went fishing yesterday up in North Jersey.

This was a trip planned 2 weeks ago, it's a private lake and my friend has a place there and invited 3 others to fish there.

Were all retired and were celebrating one of us who just retired.

We were all on kayaks, we really didn't know that the air was going to be as bad as was reported.

On the water from 8:30 to 4:30, we all survived, though none of us has any health issues that we're aware of.

We caught Largemouths, Smallmouths, Perch, Crappie and our recent member to the weekday fishing club got about a 15 lb carp for the biggest fish of the day.

At times the sun was blocked out, so it was like fishing on a really cloudy day.

None of us have ever seen anything like this.

Pic of me with a nice smallie and a 12" crappie that kinda shows what it looked like here.

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

There's ultra-fine dust here on horizonal outside surfaces. Anything I've touched has had it. Feels the like super fine baby powder that I wanted to wash off quickly.

Can't tell where I'm at as to the insane amount of pollen that is coating everything here

It's kinda smokey even here in NC.  I can't imagine how bad it is up North.  I suspect the Lake will still be crowded Saturday though.  I'll be going early.   There was a farm had a pipe burst.  Right now there's supposed to be some cow "stuff" that's leaked into one of the main tributaries of the Lake I fish at.  I wonder how that will effect fishing.   I wonder if the nutrients are good.  BIG bass come from cow ponds.   

Fishing this am at 1500’ couldn’t smell or see any smoke, 30 minute ride home down to 250’, much smoke and smell, eastern Berkshires.

 

Out of maybe 20 LMB, not one over a pound, very unusual, I’m blaming the smoke.

Does exhaust from outboard engines?

In the end of days the fish will bite with wreckless abandon 

We must be on the line.

One minute it's hazy and smells like a campfire and the next minute, clear bluebird skies......north western VA.

Not sure from a scientific standpoint, but yesterday when the ash was really bad the fish didn’t bite much. 
 

Today, when the ash was less, the fish bit like crazy. 
 

Coincidence? probably? 

Yesterday was terrible here smoke wise. I spend a lot of time outside and in a big plant with 32 garage doors made to fit tractor trailers into the building. I was suffering and so were others. Lots of people coughing complains of chest pains, tight lungs, sore throats and burning eyes. I know it is going to start to get better but, if you don’t have to be in it for extended periods of time don’t. 

When I was up in the mountains of California I would love to fish the local lakes during fire season.

Every summer we would get massive wildfires. To the point where I would have to wear a dust mask for the particles in the air but it was awesome because our lakes were empty. Had it all to myself, except for the occasional chopper grabbing water to drop on the fires.

Had a few up here in Idaho as well.

As long as you can breathe, the fish wont care. 

Happy fishing.

Finally got back fishing today, they were indeed biting again