This might be a stupid question, but like most I catch more and bigger in Summer rain, but really struggled yesterday with a 20 degree drop in air temp, rain and 10mph wind.

is this common, or just me?

Before the rain, water temps were about 64

One of the biggest puzzles of bass fishing at least for me.

 

How will frontal conditions affect the bass?

 

There's no way to predict before hand, ya just gotta go to find out.

It's unlikely that the water temp dropped 20 degrees what were you  throwing?

6 minutes ago, keagbassr said:

It's unlikely that the water temp dropped 20 degrees what were you  throwing?

The surface dropped a couple degrees due to wind and white caps and I was usually in under 20 20 feet of water since the spawn is a bit off.

As far as bait

spinners

poppers

bladed jigs

flukes

CB

Jerks......where I had better luck, but not like normal

whopper plopper 

 

Well that's pretty much along what I would use only thing I could add would be that in situations like that I try to get around shallow weed out of heavy winds. They seem to hold heat a little better.

If the cold rain drops the core water temps where the bass are located it affects them negatively. Warm rain doesn't drop the core temps and the cold front following a storm brightens the sky increases the wind and may or may not impact the bass activity.

I tend to fish deeper in lieu of shallower during post frontal conditions.

64 degree water temps in the northeast could be the middle of the spawn! I would use slower moving bottom bumping lures.

Tom

I believe the fluctuation in Barometric pressure that comes with weather “fronts” means more than anything

100 millibars of barometric pressure = 40" of water pressure. How would 33 millibars or 1 foot of water or 1" of barametic pressure change affect bass?

Tom