If you fill it, they will come. That’s a bankable principle bass anglers follow when big rains raise lake levels. Rivers rise, spillways gush, water invades the shallows, and fish run to the bank.
It’s mostly an appetite thing; the dominant motivator, second only to spawning, that guides all bass behavior. But while the murkiness of swiftly rising water gives bass a layer of cover that facilitates ambush feeding, Texas bass pro Alton Jones points out a couple of key principles that’ll help you catch more fish in these conditions.
“Bass use the turbulent water as camouflage for feeding, but when their ability to see decreases because of that turbidity, the bass have to hang closer…
