Stable Weather Patterns

I fished with my wife, Christiane on a trophy lake for about 4 hours today. With all the rain and storms we’ve had lately, I knew I had my work cut out for me. Last night’s heavy rain muddied up the water, brought the level up almost another foot and dropped the temps down once again. The same area that had 55 degrees yesterday was now barely 52 degrees! The fish had also evacuated the area and only produced one smaller fish of about 3 pounds. I moved around plenty and concentrated on areas that I thought would be holding bigger bass and still came up empty. They were definitely in the deeper water as I brought up a couple in each place I fished. There were even a couple that might have been over 6 pounds as I visually saw them chase down the lures and retreat back to the drop offs. By days end, only 2 fish of 3 pounds were released, but several other bigger ones were seen. We even had follows from a couple of lakers once again! With all the rain that continued to fall during the day, the water temps seemed to fall even more. The next couple of days have the same weather forecast and I will have to stay deep if I want to get into any of the larger smallies as well as the high numbers that I am so custom to during this pre spawn period. No pics again!