my area is about to get pounded with rain. the rain is not going to be a light, cold rain. its going to be heavy rain behind a warm front. how will bass be affected by at least an inch of rain or more?

where are the bass going to be and how are they going to bite?

 

I am the least of these here but I did have an experience last Saturday.  Friday afternoon we had a heck of a storm and it rained 1.5 inched in my neighborhood and the lake 4 houses down.  

I hit the lake about 7:20 Saturday morning with four rods, 1 baitcaster with a lipless shad swimbait, 1 ml spinning rod with a chigger craw, 1 ultra-light with a crappie tiny crankbait and 1 medium spinning with a T-rigged 6" worm.

In the first hour I caught one small bass on the chigger craw and one brim on the crappie crank.  It seemed to slow down to nothing but I needed practice with the baitcaster so I stayed and practiced.  About 9:30 I saw schools of bass hitting the surface in gangs and churning the water like piranah.  I started casting the shad and picked up seven LMB in about an hour and half, then they were gone.  They were in the middle of the lake and I could just barely cast to the edge of the meelee.  I went home when the surface action stopped.

I went back with my float tube around 6pm.  I picked up my first on the edge of the lily pads, the second and third casting the craw to the bank.  Fishfinder said they were scattered between 6 and 10 feet.  The influx of water had turned them on, or the baitfish on, which had the same effect.  Later in the day, near sundown, they went back to the usual patrols along the bank drop off.  

It was a fun day with 10 LMB.

    Where the bass will be posistioned will depend upon the water levels after the rain.  If it raised the water a lot, the bass will probably be up in the new cover that has been created by the high water.  In my recent fishing trips during and after rain I have noticed that the bass bite maybe will pick up a little bit, but it is not a drastic increase in your catch ratio.

    If your water levels did not increase a whole lot from the inch or so of rain, try not to over analyze the situation.  Just because the water rose a few inches doesn't mean the bass will reposistion themselves.  Usually when this occurs the bass will bite the same as they did before the rain.

    Bass are strange creatures.   :-?