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Originally Posted by whrizob
on thing that might be over looked here it stable water conditions. for example, alot of resivors are not stable lakes. water is always up and down. a bass will learn to adapt to the conditions it lives in. changing conditions make them constantly change the way they live and eat. making anglers change the way they fish for them. and as we all know, most anglers are one demintional and cant learn how to adapt to the conditions. therefore making it tuff for them to catch fish. now with that said, stable weather means stable water. usually! and this effects the fish different times of the year. stable water is a big key in the spring, due the spawn. but stable water in the heat of the summer can be terrible. i always like changing conditions in the summer. wether its increased water flow, a big storm coming, or alot of rain raising the water levels. all is good in summer, but will make tuff if it happens in the spring. now with that said, you still have to have warm water before a fish will spawn. water temp is the number one element in when a fish spawns. the prespawn is probably best time to catch these fish and usually cant be caught on just about anyting. so i guess what im saying is that is takes warming water, stable weather, and stable water to increase the catch rate on largemouth bass in the spring. its hard to have one with out the other, but i believe it takes all 3 to effect the way bass react. just a thought, just my opinion.
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More great thoughts!
I was talking mostly about water temperature stability, but water elevation (flooding, stable, or falling) definitely has an effect.
The great thing about lots of data is I can check your ideas against the results of 30,000 TN bass fisherman for the last 10 years. If I add season as a variable in the water temp change and trend analysis, here is what the results show.
Bass spawning season: By far the best combination is very stable conditions with no warming or cooling trend. So Whrizob is right for the spawn - Stable conditions are best.
Summer bass season: Not as clear cut answer, with many moderately good conditions, but the top two conditions are Moderately variable water temperature with either a falling or stable temperature trend. So again Whrizob is right. Some variability in summer conditions improves the catch of largemouth bass. Interestingly very fast and large changes in summer water temperature are some of the worst conditions during the summer. Probably associated with big storms that really muddy things up. Also very stable conditions are below average for catching bass.
So Whrizob was right in all three cases. I bet that doesn't happen too often.
just kidding! When it comes to bass fishing you are usually right.
I will have to add the water elevation change into the analysis and see what effect that has. More work for another day
Jim