heavy rain= flooded lake

 well i hope the spawns are over for the largemouth, i know  they will now be delayed for the peacock bass. they were starting to pair up and look along the shore for site just the last 2 weeks or so. we have had heavy rain and thunderstorms for the last 3 days and the lake has risen 12ft in 3 days. passed by today on the way from work after being rained out and it was topped off and muddy. not orange but definatley chocolate.I am sure the cold high water will throw the fish for a loop for a bit. but some stable weather will make for good fishing in all the flooded cover. the grass is once again covered and the whole shoreline with the lay downs and all is under water so its time to prepare the flipping and pitching baits and good ole frog baits!! a lot of people complain when the state and dole hold the water level down so low but it takes them 2 weeks to get it down from 82- 70ft and it only takes a day or two to get it right back up. personally i like the lake at a 72ft level. i think that the 65 ft they were trying to keep it at is way too low and the 80ft is way to high. I'm happy with the 70-72 it was before all the rain. i was actually hoping the grass would come back a bit while it was low but i guess that won't happen now. be prepared for some tough fishing the next week or so and there is a ton of floating garbage out there. hopefully other anglers pick it up as they go by, i try to always take stuff out as i go every trip and high water flushes it out of the grass. hopefully we don't have the up down up down water level we had last year. that really messed up the tuc spawn bad.