Fishing the day after a storm?

[StephenM]

We have had two unusually warm 80 degree days here in west Tennessee. Today it’s storming and back to the 60s tomorrow and sunshine. Last weekend we fished right in before a storm front (got soaked) but only a few bites. The older guy I was with said he could see bass on beds in the muddy water but I couldn’t see a d**n thing haha, but he was the ones getting the bites. I’m super green at all this. Is this a hard of the year for fishing with the very unstable weather? I wouldn't mind going and pitching the banks and brush again tomorrow but I have no idea if that’s a solid idea or not.

[Sam]

After a cold front passes the bass get lockjaw.

 

The bass will be active right before and during the storm.

 

Just a fact of life for bass fishing.

 

You can read some good articles about fishing after a cold front moves through an area in the bass fishing literature. You can also look up cold fronts in the search section of the Forum in the upper right hand corner as fishing after cold fronts has been discussed previously.

 

Be safe.

[Fishes in trees]

The best time to go fishing is when you have time to go fishing.  If it happens to be the next day after a storm, just deal.  Might not be the best day, BUT  . . you're out fishing and many of the rest of us aren't . . you win.  If you only went fishing when the conditions were perfect - you wouldn't go fishing very often.

[Glenn]

This should help:

 

[roadwarrior]

[StephenM]

We ended up going to two different lakes Sunday, beautiful day outside in the high 60s and pretty windy, partly cloudy. Water clarity was really good. No idea on water temp, didn’t have the fish finder hooked up yet. But I started off trying to run crank baits in about 5ft of water in coves of the lake. But the shoreline is covered with this tall lanky submerged grass, looks like coon tail maybe. So I couldn’t keep that clean so I switched to a white/chartreuse willow blade spinner and I was able to move that through the grass easily. Fished that a lot honestly

because it’s fun and it was good practice aiming my casts at cover. We fished those spinners a couple hours but no bites. Did try a whopper plopper to see if a little fish would hit it but no luck. The lake was super crowded so we ended up leaving and going to a tiny lake down the road. But I was getting aggravated with the wind blowing the boat all over the place so I ended up just fishing for bluegill at the tiny lake lol.

 

Little bit Frustrating day but good practice. Had fun being out there. Wife enjoyed it also. I did bury a treble hook in my finger for the time too! #Rookie