Hey 4bizz: you put an answer up in the Cali Flood thread on everything that the rains and rising water means someone is gonna land a big one soon. WHY IS THAT? I have been reading a little bit and I am confused, what else is new?

If Bass metabolism is higher in warmer water, why do they bite, and I have experienced this myself, so good after a big rain storm that may lower the water temps by several degrees, sometimes within a few hours? This gets very confusing .

I am not an expert and I can't answer for Jay, but I think the prevailing wisdom is that when the barometer is falling at a frantic pace, that bass will respond by getting excited about feeding. Fish are very sensitive to the barometric pressure, not so much the rain itself. I hope I answered your question correctly.

Ronnie

I think ronnie has tipped on something only a biologist could answer fully and unquestionabley but my opinion is that Ronnie is dead on and to expound on that a little....

Rain adds oxygen

Rising water washes food up from it's hiding places

new currents, delivering food

Falling barometer.

This is just a short lisft of the positives associated with rain.  My opinion is that sometimes, it's a combination of factors weighed against another combination.

lower temps just aren't as big of a negative as all of the positives combined.  They outweigh the one negative.

Rising water creates a biosinthesis in the atmospheric pressure of isotopes. This compunds on the fact that energy levels created by rising water allows the current in a regulated atmosphere to adhere to stricter levels of oxygenated upheavels in the top quadrant of the water level's nucleic acid.

Pretty basic stuff.  

Stuck in the house for one day and you have cabin fever already!!  You'd never cut it up north amigo!! ;D  I thought for sure that you would find a spot to throw "pontificate" in there somewhere......

Stuck in the house for one day and you have cabin fever already!! You'd never cut it up north amigo!! ;D I thought for sure that you would find a spot to throw "pontificate" in there somewhere......

I didnt want to sound too technical.  ;D

Rising water creates a biosinthesis in the atmospheric pressure of isotopes.  This compunds on the fact that energy levels created by rising water allows the current in a regulated atmosphere to adhere to stricter levels of oxygenated upheavels in the top quadrant of the water level's nucleic acid.  

Pretty basic stuff.  

Oh yeah....I understand it fully now! How could I not have figured this out before......  

The barometer!

A rapidly falling barometer gets the fish active.

Out here it really gets the trout stirred up and they come shallow and mill around. That means that they are cruising past ambush points.

It also gets the big largemouth much more active and since the trout have moved shallow, so typically will the big bass.

and yeah a warmer surface temp and and a nice chop on the water help out too

by the way

pulled that off of one of my local forums this morning. looks like she was caught yesterday.

I love being right

Thanks to all  8-)

One more thing to mention is with the water not so perfectly clear and the weather a little nasty the big old smart fish dont see the baits so clearly so any imperfections made by the fisherman are muted. The big bass are a little bet easyer to fool