Florida bass react more to cold fronts than their northern cousins. They just shut down. When the Punch Craw comes through a floating mat, it goes by the bass in a hurry. They don't have time to think about it, so they just eat it.

With afternoon thunderstorms and daytime heat, stalled out cold fronts, and the Gulf starting to open up, all scenarios offer us a better chance of rain than was the case for last two months. June is the beginning of tropical storm and hurricane season.

Orville believed that those Florida bass would grow out here. And he was right.

Discovering this link is like discovering the movement of cold fronts is responsible for sudden thunderstorms.

But when push came to shove, ... I think it stuck in the Gallic craw that a) I was English and b) I had been in a pop group — though the French are better at allowing movement between disciplines. Then Nadine died, and we put the project on the shelf. I picked it up again in '95.

This cold weather we've had the last few days didn't help. Being as shallow as it is, the bass here are very susceptible to cold fronts.