Fishing in a heavy rain for instance with air temps in the 40s is absolutely brutal. In order to do that, pick baits that you can cover a lot of water with and then keep your head down and go. Taking advantage of the low atmospheric pressure when you can often puts more and bigger fish in the boat. In any case, fishing in the rain almost always leans more toward power fishing. With the exception of perhaps a topwater, where picking a solid color versus a translucent will at least create a sharper profile for the fish to target. So there’s really no hard rule about color selection relative to rain. In those situations, I’ll go with a bright color or white spinnerbait. And then situations where the rain is heavier, the sky darker and the water is muddy. There are instances where light rain, no wind and clear water call for a more natural shad-colored spinnerbait. These types of places where fish can move around and hunt within the cover are ideal in the rain and a swim jig is the perfect bait to dive into that over with.Īs far as color selection goes, the color spectrum runs pretty wide in the rain. So we’re talking more about vegetation that makes up an area or a stretch, like the previously mentioned flat of hydrilla or a 200-yard stretch of water willow along the shoreline. They still like it a lot and will relate to a large flat of hydrilla more than they will to a series of scattered stumps on a similar flat for instance. ![]() It’s worth mentioning that there are some topwater baits that would work in these scenarios as well, but the swim jig gives you a subsurface bait for year round use, even when the water is cold.Īlthough bass don’t typically focus on cover as much in the rain, vegetation is a little different. We’re talking thicker water willow, pads, hydrilla with scattered holes in it and other situations where the more aggressive baits would bogged down or hang up. This one comes into play for vegetation that is a little too dense for the spinnerbait and ChatterBait. And there are a few instances where fish won’t necessarily be under cover but being able to skip a power-fishing bait is key, such as under dock and marina cables. That’s where skipping a ChatterBait can really shine. But as the front is just setting in and as the high pressure later starts to creep back in on the front’s way out, there are small windows where bass will still be close to cover like docks and bushes. ![]() Skipping a bait in a rain storm may not seem all that useful at first since bass don’t typically hang close to hard cover in low-pressure situations and instead prefer to roam around and hunt. A ChatterBait, on the other hand, is much easier. As good as a spinnerbait is, it’s extremely hard, if not impossible, for most anglers to skip. But where a ChatterBait really sets itself apart is in its ability to skip underneath cover. So picking up where we left off with the spinnerbait, a ChatterBait also has the vibration and flash to help fish find it as well as the constant movement characteristic to assist an angler in covering water.
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