What Does Rain Do To Bass

[Texas_Rig_Aggie]

(TX) It's been raining like the son of God's making coming around for the follow-up tour.

My hypothesis is that all the critters (earthworms) start coming out of the dirt, and Bass have got to be more tuned into creature baits.

Similar to wind, choppy/disturbed water must add a level of level of concealment, perhaps increasing the likelihood of attacking prey.

Rain has a lower pH level than Lakewater. I'm not smart enough to take a shot at what this might do.

Run-off, if the banks of your fishery is mud/dirt, will create low-visibility situations with murky water (so you can finally brandish the hot pink chatterbait your daughter got you for Christmas).

Heavy rains are usually the result of a low-pressure front moving in, bringing cold northern air. Cold fronts typically hedge the activity of bass, but my thought is that they become less active as result of taking advantage of the hunting advantages the rain brings. They burn calories, fill up their gut, and that's why they get sluggish.

[scaleface]

Theres a lot of variables . If the water raises quickly , lets say five foot and before the raise bass were five foot deep . Theres a good chance those bass are now ten foot deep.  Thats what I found numerous times .

[bbgobie]

I'm not sure what it does to bass, but for me I tend to get hit just before or at the start of rain.  If it's a cold front with rain the fishing gets slow.  On the rare occasions you get that really warm summer rain I find the fishing to be good.

However my best bass of last year came fishing in a cold front in rain.  Of course this was after catching 2 dinkers in 2.5 hours and heading back to the launch. Thew a Senko to a downed tree near a small point that I have never caught anything over 1lb on and boom!  So I guess you never know when lady lucky will hit.

[JigMe]

14 minutes ago, Texas_Rig_Aggie said:

(TX) It's been raining like the son of God's making coming around for the follow-up tour.

My hypothesis is that all the critters (earthworms) start coming out of the dirt, and Bass have got to be more tuned into creature baits.

Similar to wind, choppy/disturbed water must add a level of level of concealment, perhaps increasing the likelihood of attacking prey.

Rain has a lower pH level than Lakewater. I'm not smart enough to take a shot at what this might do.

Run-off, if the banks of your fishery is mud/dirt, will create low-visibility situations with murky water (so you can finally brandish the hot pink chatterbait your daughter got you for Christmas).

Heavy rains are usually the result of a low-pressure front moving in, bringing cold northern air. Cold fronts typically hedge the activity of bass, but my thought is that they become less active as result of taking advantage of the hunting advantages the rain brings. They burn calories, fill up their gut, and that's why they get sluggish.

I agree with you that after heavy rain you should expect run-off. I will start by checking the areas you normally fish, and if it is too muddy then bass will be hard to catch. A good place to start looking for bass (if your normal spot is not ideal) will be where clear water meets the muddy water, and I always catch them there (my guess is they are feeding at that area).

[Josh Smith]

This time of year, they get warmed up by the rain.

I watch critters.  If the squirrels are out in force, the bass probably are, too.

Josh

 

 

 

 

[Ratherbfishing]

What does rain do to bass?  They get wet.

[Raul]

32 minutes ago, Ratherbfishing said:

What does rain do to bass?  They get wet.

They are already wet so in that case rains does nothing.

[ww2farmer]

Interdasting question.............but I have a few of my own to add...I wonder if rain falling on the surface of the water sounds to a bass, like a heavy rain hitting a metal roof sounds like to a human? Can bass tie shoes? Do bass  have makeshift underwater gas grills? If I glued a bunch of those little plastic football helmets on the bass would they group up according to which team's helmets I glued on them?............... These are somethings we might never find the answers to.  

[Mike L]

I love fishing in the rain...Air is fresher, air temperature drops, water temperature drops, frog bite is better, spinnerbait bite is better, paddle tail swim bait bite is better, previously unaccessible areas are not for a while. 

I hate fishing in the rain...Muddies up the water, pollutants get washed in,  can't see as well, the wind pushes surface vegetation around too much, fish have more areas to roam, lightening.

 

 

Mike 

 

 

[hoosierbass07]

I caught my biggest bass last year in a clear water strip pit after the rain when the water was cloudy/muddy from the rain.  So now this year I'm looking and hoping it rains and stains up that clear water so the big bass will have a harder time seeing me and come out more.  

[blckshirt98]

As a shore guy, heavy rains covers up a lot of fishable shoreline and turns the first 10-15 feet of water into submerged plants that your stuff can get hung up on!  But actually I look for where the water runs into the body of water, because my assumption is the bass are aware of the where new water comes in, and will be hovering there expecting the rain runoff to wash down and carry food.  Bugs worms, frogs, small fish, and whatever else gets caught in the water.

[Airman4754]

On 3/9/2016 at 8:15 AM, JigMe said:

I agree with you that after heavy rain you should expect run-off. I will start by checking the areas you normally fish, and if it is too muddy then bass will be hard to catch. A good place to start looking for bass (if your normal spot is not ideal) will be where clear water meets the muddy water, and I always catch them there (my guess is they are feeding at that area).

Any time outside of summer the mud line will be some of the best water you can find. Throw parallel to it with noisey stuff; big swimbait, spinnerbait, chatterbait, lipless, etc. 

[Zsolt Rebek-Nagy]

I have find this article, please read it. Lots of good information about fishing in different levels of air pressure.

 

http://www.lake-link.com/info/barometric_pressure.cfm

[Chad79]

I fished today in Bossier city LA on flag lake we have had the flooding rain you guys in Texas have had. I caught 2 today in about 4 ft of water visibility was about 6 inches.  Got them on a 1/2 ounce brown and purple jig with 2 rattles and a 4 inch Berkeley chigger crawl trailer in watermelon  candy.