Bass fishing and the rain

[wayneSTEELE]

Hey guys, I stay up in Namibia and the dam I fish the bass are fairly easy to catch and the size is very respectable. They normally bite on anything from plastics to cranks to spinners etc. You just gotta determine what depth they holding to catch em.

Now we've had som rain and the river that feeds the dam has made it go all muddy at the mouth and Coca Cola colour further down the dam. Now they just don't bite. There are loads of baitfish in the shallows but we could'nt get the bass to bite at all except baby ones on Ryan's Kurper rig messing around in the shallows.

So when it rains do they just go off the bite or are there other tactics and patterns to try?

Thanks

 

[Brushhog]

Hi Waynesteele,what i would recomend is fishing very very slow and as tight to the cover as possible and to make much more casts per spot! and for the water clarity,fish Junebug or Greenpumpkin or any other darker coloured lures,also try slowroling a spinnerbait close to the structure to get a reaction bite out of the fish,also try downsizing the bait and a very lethal teqnique for cold water fishing is the dropshot rig,try it,it works,most of my winter bass were caught on this rig!!!