Heres a question.......Say You've been on some decent fish for over a week, 13-15 lbs on best 5. You are really counting on them to be there Saturday for a tournament.  Two nights before tournament it storms, clear the next day and night before.  Water is only slightly darker than the weeks prior when the bite was strong approx 75 degrees.  The same 5 spots produce 5.1 lbs only 4 fish.  Couldn't even get my limit, but thats not totally the fish's fault.  Still never got a "bigger" fish to bite.  Everything seemed to be approx 1.5 lb.  My question is for some of you seasoned anglers, what would you do in this situation?  Where did the fish go? and what could I have done or what would you do to pack on a few pounds when the bite is tough and your fish aren't there?  BTW the bite I was on was a buzz frog grass bite in 1-3 ft of water early and 4-7 ft as the sun gets a little higher.   The grass is in a large cove with a small creek down the right side, creek is only around 4-7 ft deep with the entire flat from 1-5 ft deep.  I also worked the flat pretty good with a jerk bait.  Give me your thoughts! 

Sounds like you're describing a front coming through and post frontal conditions.  A lot of times that makes the fish inactive and they tend to either go deeper and/or hold tighter to cover.

Good question. You have to know the lake well. I recently had this in a Tx at LOZ and I knew where the fish were the day before. But since I was new to that area of the lake, I only had enough weight for a top 10 because I didn't have areas that matched my conditions. But here is what I do when I know a lake and have areas that match the conditions.

I'm not sure if you had schools of fish or just one here and one there in a pattern. But if you watch Day on a Lake or read it from BASS, then you see how much they work the water column with speed, color, depth, cadence, etc. They change it up a lot till they find what is working. The way the elites work a water column is systematic. They are not always successful, but are more consistent than the average angler. I learned a ton from that series.

In your conditions I would try slow falling jigs and weightless plastics. Use different speeds of fall. I would also try to bang a crankbait off of cover to get a reaction bite or some other kind of reaction bite. I would try crawling a jig and digging a crankbait slow and fast. I would try topwater and jerkbaits. I would try flats first, then at the top of the break to the bottom of it. Then I would target bass suspended on the break. I would start in areas where I found quality schools of fish in hopes that they didn't move far, but keep in mind they may be far away. But I wouldn't start in areas where I only caught 1 or maybe 2 bass. I would start with the schools first. You have a better chance of finding multiple bass. Keep changing until you find something. Remember, it seems that in a Tx someone always finds quality fish. Why can't it be you?

Great input and I appreciate that!  But that brings me to another question.  I seem to have trouble finding schools of bass or catching mulitiple bass in a location.  Generally I'm on the one or two here and there pattern.    How do you go about catching multiple bass in a spot and where do you look for these fish?

It's not real easy. It's a lot of work. Obviously the more time you have, the better chances of finding schools. But, like me, most of us don't get that much prefishing time. So you have to pick seasonal, high percentage areas before you even leave for the lake.

For instance, this last trip for me at LOZ I knew a lot of fish had spawned out. So I figured the best, most active schools would be closer to the main lake. Sure enough, that was the case. Secondary points and transitional banks inside the coves didn't have the schools. But inside main lake transitional points, they were schooled up.

Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Sometimes they are not doing what you think they should be doing. And that means you will not always find schooling fish. So I will change areas and presentations in hopes of finding schools somewhere. It is a gamble with limited prefishing, but it has high rewards. If I fail to find them, then I can always resort to the areas that will have one here and one there.

To answer your question specifically about how to find schools, pick your high percentage areas and fish only around them. Don't go running down a nothing bank just because it is adjacent to your ledge, creek channel, etc. Fish the high percentage area with different crankbaits, jigs, finesse, topwater or whatever your confident baits are. Use different retrieves, cadence and speed. Check the top of a break first for active fish. Then try the break itself. Finally, don't leave until you have targeted the inactive, suspended fish. That is why it is important to have more than a few rods ready to go. Drop the crankin stick and pick up the jig. Drop that one and throw jerkbait. Drop that and let a wacky rig fall through the water column. If no bites, then move on to the next area you have picked out.

Here is a final tip. Always fish a lake as if it is your first time there. In other words, do not just fish your past spots. Your productive spots may not fit the conditions and you will waist time. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't check them. But if they aren't productive, go to the areas that match your conditions.