Smallmouths know when seasons change, and have the ability to prepare and adapt to all conditions. Their activity is always a product of changes whether they be seasonal, temperature, location, wind and weather, or some other biological influencer. If able to pattern accordingly, your fishing strategy, and the day’s potential fishing destination, must revolve around each specific condition. All imaginable conditions affect bass behavior and activity levels. Responses to weather are the most drastic, as smallmouths are sensitive creatures with acute senses. At pre-frontal, they’ll know when to fire up and feed heavily. Following the front’s passage, they lay low to recover until barometric pressure rises again. Their swim bladders and sensory organs drastically react to passing fronts and pressure changes. On every smallmouth fishery, its fish will display positive and negative reactions to changes in weather depending on its severity. For every weather pattern, bass will always display a positive or negative reaction in response to it. Every smallmouth fishery I go to responds uniquely and individually to specific conditions.  For example, certain spe