I usually stay away from fishing right after a storm, but im getting the fishing frenzy right now and i would like to know a few tricks or tips on fishing after a big storm, in the past ive always fished it how i would if it wasnt muddier or anything, but i never have as good of luck...

well me personally never really had luck right after a storm. Usually i have the best of luck when the rain is hitting the body of water. Basically sometimes i think its best to fish for bass in a rainstorm. because bugs and other things are falling in the water off of trees and not to mention its a lot harder for them to see you if your standing in the boat. Dont get me wrong i wouldnt stand out fishing in a wicked storms but if its just raining well you better believ ei have a poncho or a homade poncho made from a garbage bag,lol. Sometimes ive had luck after a storm and somedays i have had luck. sometimes it just depends. But usually ill stick with a worm. Or if the water is calm after the storm try a top water.

Go deeper immediately after big storms but if the sun comes out burnin, the fish aren't far behind.

Big O

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We've been getting a lot of afternoon and evening thunderstorms here,

almost everyday, and the bite, IMO, has really been off.  

In the past week I've had 2 occasions where a storm rolled through while I was fishing that required me to take cover for a bit. On both occasions, after the storm passed, the fish got really active in the shallow water next to the grass. Last Sat this happened, and in about 15 minutes I landed 5 4+ lbers. They were right up next to the thick grass.

no help here, im stumped, these ohio early summer storms kill my patterns.... i shore fish, so I cant get to the fish right after it dies down, that goes for my favorite local res. and my favorite lake, a small lake (large pond) thats only ten feet deep at the deepest.....

Im not sure what to do.... but heres a new strand off the original......   whats the best way to attack really unstable weather patterns..... we get a day or so of nice weather, then we get POUNDED for two or three days, then maybe a few days of really hot sunny days, then as soon as i make it to the lake, it thunderstorms!

so what i need is a good post front  pattern that can be easly adapted to the quickly changing conditions....

any ideas?

no help here, im stumped, these ohio early summer storms kill my patterns.... i shore fish, so I cant get to the fish right after it dies down, that goes for my favorite local res. and my favorite lake, a small lake (large pond) thats only ten feet deep at the deepest.....

Im not sure what to do.... but heres a new strand off the original...... whats the best way to attack really unstable weather patterns..... we get a day or so of nice weather, then we get POUNDED for two or three days, then maybe a few days of really hot sunny days, then as soon as i make it to the lake, it thunderstorms!

so what i need is a good post front pattern that can be easly adapted to the quickly changing conditions....

any ideas?

We've had some of that kind of thing down here in Albama, not quite as severe as you are talking about however. I've been noticing that a fair number of fish seem to be moving and staying in the deeper water around here. My guess is that the rapidly changing conditions are making them stay in deeper water more often than they have in the past. But, I'm not 100% sold on that because of the abnormally high temps we had a couple weeks ago. That stretch of hot weather may have been what's moved them deep earlier than normal. The one thing that makes me wonder is that usually the fish move back to the ledges and deeper areas in the main channel of the lake I love to fish. But lately it seems like they are holding in the deeper areas that are still in the creeks and closer to the bedding areas. There are a number of fish that have moved back to the main channel, but I am still finding a lot of them in the "staging areas" that I would expect them to be in right after the spawn.

I don't think anything I said helps you, so I will go over here and sit down and let the smarter folks handle this!  :-/

Here in Southwest Louisiana/Southeast Texas afternoon thunder boomers are very common through out the summer months. These heat thunder storms can be quite violate with high winds, hale, and sever lighting but they are nature's air conditioners usually dropping air temperatures by 10 degrees or more.

Fishing after such storms are quite often extremely productive because the high winds blow numerous insects into the water which feed minnows, shad, bream and y'all know who's next in the food chain. The winds and rains will lower water temperatures causing a bass's strike zone to increase as they go into a feeding mode.