Cold Front Insurance?

It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. Days before your vacation or derby you hear about the approach of a dreaded cold front. Your stomach drops at the thoughts of battling big waves and strong winds in the pelting rain. But worst of all, these cold fronts usually bring tough fishing conditions.

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Lake Diefenbaker, Northern Pike

Fish seam to disappear when the barometer dives. With enough perseverance sometimes you can find them. They’re usually deeper on or near sand, inactive and not feeding. A slow moving jig or spoon jigged on or near the bottom may reveal a fish or two but true to form fishing is tough.

You need cold front fishing insurance. It’s cheap, reliable and will save the day. It won’t stop the rain or wind but it will catch fish when you find them. It’s called the Electron Fish Attractor. Walleye and Pike can’t resist it. Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Tips on finding the fish after the storm.

Even the biggest and baddest Pike and Walleye like to hide when the weather goes bad. They will be deeper than they were a few days ago and usually over a sandy area.

I’ve seen evidence of fish attracted to these sandy areas due to the high electro-magnetic field (EMF) the sand emits. Here they can hide their own electrical field resting virtually electo-receptively invisible.

As well as Walleye and Pike, Whitefish, Pan fish, Lake, Brook, Rainbow and Brown Trout all exhibit the same pattern. This high EMF is called the ambient EMF or the Casimir Effect. These areas generate an EMF generated by the quartz and iron contained in the sand and rock. The higher the amount of quartz and iron the greater the EMF.

When fish enter these areas their electrical field is dominated by the ambient EMF and they virtually disappear. The Electron Fish Attractor presented into this environment generates a higher electrical field than the Casimir effect consequently creating interest and a strike.

Have fun on the water

Finally! Proof of Magneto-reception in Fish. Cells containing Magnetite found in Rainbow Trout.

Scientists have accepted the theory that migratory species of birds, fish, turtles and mammals are sensitive to the earth’s magnetic field, but this is the first time the precise cell with Magneto-Sensitivity has been located.

A research team at Munich’s Ludwig Max Millions University studied cells from the Olfactory Gland of a Rainbow Trout under a microscope.

A magnet rotated under the microscope stage revealed several cells that were moving with the magnet. These cells were individually studied and found to contain Magnetite, the most magnetic substance on earth.

This is great proof for us and reinforces what we have been theorizing for decades. I can’t see this discovery just involving Rainbow Trout, one could speculate that all members of the trout, char and salmon families of fish could have Magnetite present in their olfactory tissue as well.

This could also hold true for other related species with an adipose fin like Catfish, Piranha, Golden Dorado, Pacu, Tiger fish, White Fish and Grayling. We know these fish are extremely Electroreceptive by of their response to the Electron Fish Attractor Fresh Water 1 low or high TDS.

This discovery in trout could explain how salmon find their way back to their maternal streams from thousands of miles away. To do this they must be able to sense north and south as well as longitude, kind of like a built in GPS.

I won’t be surprised if some day they find magnetite in all fish to some degree. I say this because of fish behaviour I noticed while observing bait fish (Great Lake Shiners) held captive in a stainless steel and glass tank awaiting sale at a bait wholesaler.

Thousands of fish were evenly dispersed in the tank but when a magnet was placed on the steel to hold an order form all the fish reacted instantly by balling up in the opposite end of the tank.  Was this reaction due to the magnetic force or the negative ions created by it, or both? Maybe someday we will find the answer.

Rick Crozier

TDS? EMF? Electroreception? Magnetoreception? What does it all mean?

The text books we all studied in school are wrong. Scientists and biologists have argued that the only fish capable of Electroreception are members of the shark and ray family with the exception of Electric Eels and Elephant fish. 

We couldn’t disagree more. In fact we have built a company offering 19 products that disprove this theory by their very performance.  We have recruited dozens of field testers around the world that use our products that will agree there is a sixth sense all fish possess.  This is called Electroreception and Magneto-reception (the ability to detect and decipher Electro Magnetic Fields), EMF.  What I am saying is that EMF are invisible to us but not to fish, birds, turtles, marine mammals and all land animals with wet noses.  The only time they are visible to us is when we see the Northern or Southern Aurora Borealis in the night sky.

This ability brings the Salmon back to their maternal streams, guides the Sea Turtles to their maternal beaches and guides birds and migratory land mammals on their journeys.  It has been proven to me that all fish are electroreceptive by way of my invention the Electron Fish Attractor.  Those that have used it know there is something to it by the response fish have to it.

Every angler is a scientist at heart and needs proof to believe a theory.  
Once you accept the fact that everything, all matter has its own distinct EMF you will find the proof everywhere.

To understand this best let’s look at water in its simplest form.  Distilled or deionized water is pure water, just H2O nothing else.  Water in this form cannot conduct electricity or EMF.  Now add a pinch of salt.  As it dissolves in the water Neutrons and Protons react and expel positive and negative ions and electrons.  These ions are the conductors of electricity and EMF.  By adding a pinch of salt to our water sample we have added dissolved solids by way of sodium chloride, thereby increasing the total dissolved solids (TDS).  The more solids dissolved in the water the greater its conductivity.  Each and every element dissolved in water creates its own little neutron/proton universe dispensing ions creating what is called the ambient EMF. 

Every river, lake, pond and aquarium has its own individual EMF determined by the different elements in its TDS make up. To add to this ambient, EMF suspended particles like sediment, silicates, organic tannin's and vegetation all add ions to this atomic mix, all increasing the conductivity.

To better understand how all this science relates to
sport fishing we should look at how fish interpret EMF. 
To do this let me take you on a journey of the mind. 

Imagine a cross section of a lake or pond showing the surface and bottom with weeds, rock, gravel and sand.  Now let’s add the ambient EMF by colouring the water a dark yellow.  Paint the bottom orange.  Rock is darker orange because it has a lower EMF. The gravel is lighter orange and the sand because of its high EMF let’s paint it bright orange.  Paint the weeds bright white to signify life.  They are alive and giving off plenty of ions.  Now let’s add the fish. Put them everywhere.  Let’s have some Crappy and Bluegill suspended mid depth.  They are inactive so paint them pale yellow, just a little brighter than the water.  Now add bait fish. They are active so colour them bright white and sparkling as muscles contract as they swim about.

Over the sand let’s add an ambush predator, a Musky.  She has been lying in wait for prey to come by staying very still, not using those huge muscles at all.  This keeps her EMF low and unnoticeable against the higher EMF of the sand.  Like a stealth fighter she is hiding in plain sight ready to attack any fish that comes too close.  Before any attack is launched the Musky must decide if whether or not this would be meal is worth blowing its cover for.  If it lunges and misses, those huge muscles will glow bright white making it impossible to hide until its EMF drops again as it rests.  So for now let us paint her bright orange as she waits for her opportunity.

On the bottom add a Catfish.  It has no scales to hide its EMF so paint it bright white as it mulls around on the floor.  Those long whiskers are loaded with sensors so sensitive they can detect the very faintest EMF of crustaceans, worms and fish hiding in or on the bottom.

In the distance there is a bright light, so bright it is like a star.  All fish recognize this immediately as a good sized bait fish that has been wounded, probably by a Loon or Merganser.  The high EMF of the racing heart beat and contracting muscles are sending out a signal of an easy meal for hundreds of feet in every direction.

The Pan Fish notice it first and move in to torment it. It’s too big for them to swallow but that does not stop them from the chase. Their colour now changes to sparkling bright white as they follow the wounded bait fish.

Our Catfish notices it too but can’t get a bearing on it. His electroreception is more personal than local, all he knows is that it’s that way and swims in that direction.

Finally our Musky senses the wounded bait fish. She also senses the pan fish and the catfish closing in.  This is exactly what it she has been waiting for, an easy meal. She won’t have to lunge to feed, just casually swim over and eat it.  Keeping her EMF as low as possible so she can quickly return back to stealth mode.  Time is on her side. Her electroreception is local and bang on. The wounded bait fish is still 100 feet out. She won’t get a visual until its 20 feet away.  So for now she slowly postures, anticipating the interception point. As the musky slowly moves, there are sparks coming from its fin bases and tail.  This area slowly turns white as muscle movement increases its EMF. The pan fish sense the musky and the trap that awaits and are out of there.  Our catfish senses the musky and loses interest in the chase.

There is no competition for the bait fish and our musky gets close and engulfs it. Something is wrong, it’s not a bait fish at all, but a lure with the Electron Fish Attractor creating the high EMF.  The Musky has been fooled and now it is fighting for its life.  It doesn’t know it will be quickly released but for now the battle is on.

When she is released she is glowing bright white from the high EMF created by the struggle.  This fish will survive the ordeal but it will take time to recover her strength and lower her EMF to get back to stealth mode.

Wow! Now you guys know where I go when I get quiet.

Rick Crozier

Finding The Fish using the Coriolis Effect

I’ve spent thousands of hour’s staring down a hole in the ice waiting for fish to show up. Anticipation of action helps with the boredom. Sometimes there are minnows to watch but most of the time there is nothing interesting going on.

The one thing always present is a bit of a current, it’s always there to some degree in every body of water. This intrigued me. How is this possible? There is little or no flow in the dead of winter? So what could be causing this this phenomenon? Well the answer is that the flow is caused by the rotation of the earth on its axes, this phenomenon is called the Coriolis Effect.

Depending where you live on the planet we are travelling over one thousand miles an hour as we rotate on our axes, at the same time we are travelling some 27,000 miles an hour as we rotate around the sun on our yearly journey through space.

This creates a clockwise rotation of water north of the Equator and a counter clockwise rotation south of the Equator. This small current is evident in all lakes, ponds and even in bird baths.

During the 80’s, I was Fishing Editor and #1 Columnist for Alberta Fishing and Hunting Magazine and thought that a story explaining this current I called The Zoo Plankton Drift would be an interesting column. This drift is like a tide that always flows in the same direction to us it is barely noticeable, but to a microbe or protozoan it is a raging torrent complete with whirlpools, back eddies and raceways.

So if the water is always drifting in the same direction, obstacles like points, bays, reefs and islands would create back eddies were Zoo plankton would concentrate, attracting minnows that in turn attract game fish. It made sense to me but before I could write my column this had to be proved.

By looking at lake contours, imagining the clockwise drift it is easy to determine were the back eddies would be. After checking out the other three sides of a structure taking note of minnow and game fish populations the fourth side where the back eddy should be always proved to be more active. Most of these areas have a high density of Clams and Mussels on the bottom. Somehow these filter feeders know where the food is and congregate there.

After proving my theories to myself I wrote an article called the Zoo Plankton Drift that was met with a lot of skepticism. That was in 1986, I think. I’ve been experimenting with this theory ever since, summer and winter and have never found any evidence to dispute it.

Using this pattern to locate hot spots over the years has given me some exceptional fishing but the best thing it’s done is saved my valuable fishing time for the most productive areas.

Tight Lines
Rick Crozier