Thread: too much rainfall?

Not sure about their habits, but I can tell you Smith Lake appears to be up 3-4 foot from looking out my window.

if muddy it will be bad for me until it clears quite a bit.

based on my experiences they gey lockjaw,water has to be fairly clear for them to hit good-but thats only my opionion.

Pretty much the same for me. Since they hit minnows and small jigs, you have to put it really close to them because the water is so dirty. With the weeds down to filter the water, this is already the dirtiest time of the year, clarity-wise. Then, after it rains, the front has come through, so you have the whole barometer/bladder thing that happens to them, aka, the "bluebird day." That can get them suspending in negative feed mode all by itself. It's usually cooler after a front this time of year and it doesn't take much to knock them off their game temperature-wise. There are plus sides, but the negs highly outweigh them. A positive is they are pulling a lot, and I mean a lot of water at Guntersville. Another plus is that murky water keeps the shallows warmer. But those negatives I mentioned really put a damper on fishing after a heavy rain like we've just experienced.