This may be a really stupid question, but pride won't help me get any better loll. Do thunderstorms effect bass? I was fishing yesterday and was killing it. Caught alot of big fish. Went out today before a big thunder storm and had a real hard time catching them. If storms do effect them, where do they usually go?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

The barometric pressure associated with storms is what effects fish more than the storm itself. Here is an article: http://www.lake-link.com/info/barometric_pressure.cfm. I am positive there is an article here on BR about it, but I cannot find it. It is not a prefect science and you can easily find sources saying there is no effect or the data is insufficient to say one way or another, such as this In Fisherman article: http://www.in-fisherman.com/2012/08/24/barometric-pressure-and-bass/. I think WRB has done a few good write ups about it as well, but finding them will require quite a bit of digging.

You didn't ask but I'm sure you know you don't want to be out there in a thunder storm. Especially waving a rod around in the air.

Some of the best fishing I've experienced is during thunderstorms, graphite lighting rod and all. Probably not the safest thing to do.

You didn't ask but I'm sure you know you don't want to be out there in a thunder storm. Especially waving a rod around in the air.

Oh yeah when the wind started to pick up I paddled back and fished from shore till I heard thunder then packed it in

All I know is that if we are supposed to get a storm, I go out the day before. The fish know it's coming and start feeding really well

Does thunder storms effect bass fishing?

Uh! Yelp!

That storm was 2 miles away, I would say it had quite an effect, 1 dead 1 in a wheelchair for life!

Cant say exactly how a thunderstorm effects a bass or where they go.

All I know is where there is thunder there is lightening, and I do know where I go!

Mike

Barometric pressure is what it's all about. Fish respond positively to dropping BP and negatively to rising BP with regards to feeding activity. This is why typically fishing is great before a storm, and so poor afterwards. I will say however that a nasty storm with intense winds (sounds like your circumstance) can sometimes kill the bite.

Usually before the front rolls in fishing will improve and the bite can get crazy.  With real heavy rains sometimes the PH in the water can get screwed up for a while and the bite goes to hell.  I have experienced both these conditions.  If you hear thunder, or see lightning, its time to pack it in and seek shelter.  Don't foul with mother nature!   Even in a tournament!!!!!!!!  We lost a good one on Okeechobee last year.  VERY SAD!

After 50 years of bass fishing there is only one thing that will make me get off the water -- thunderstorms. I have no doubt that an approaching thunderstorm could make fish active, but I don't need to catch them that bad.

For example tomorrow afternoon is calling for t storms here in nc. I'll be throwing top water early am and I will be headed in via my iPhone radar.

:-)

Bass usually do well right before and after the storms. Especially the morning of.

And there you are, rod in hand when ZAP !!!!! deep fried, crunchy on the outside and tender inside.

That's why you watch the radar.

I've always heard the same, fish before the storm.....Well , I was out in the middle of the lake fishing near an  island and it started thundering, lightening and rain. Came up so quick we couldn't get off the lake ,and the fish stopped biting, but, as soon as it stopped the fish went crazy on the bite.....I was like WHAT?....Shocked me but I didn't leave the lake just cause they weren't supposed to bite.

I've always heard the same, fish before the storm.....Well , I was out in the middle of the lake fishing near an  island and it started thundering, lightening and rain. Came up so quick we couldn't get off the lake ,and the fish stopped biting, but, as soon as it stopped the fish went crazy on the bite.....I was like WHAT?....Shocked me but I didn't leave the lake just cause they weren't supposed to bite.

I have had this happen to me a couple of times when we were having on and off showers.  As soon as the rain stopped, the bite would start.

 

As for storms, when I hear thunder, I high tail it back to the ramp.