You are throwing an ineffective bait on glass smooth days...the wind picking up made your bait less conspicuous and gave the fish less ability to really observe the bait. At that point, they eat it first, then spit it out if it ain’t right.

Also to be clear my data came from all over the US. Definitely not just Florida strain.

Yeah, i think your data does prove fish gotta eat regardless of weather. But fisherman also adapt to the weather as well so it seems your study cant really disapprove the notion "weather does affect the bite" but does prove fish will eat all year long in all conditions you just have to figure out where. Imo thats what separates good fisherman vrs the rest, figuring out the "where"

Except for the FACT that fish don't eat the SAME regardless of weather. Bass metabolism does slow down as the water gets cold. Bass metabolism does speed up as the weather warms. Weather does change where fish are located because it changes where their food is located. All these things are proven facts. So does a bass still have to eat regardless of weather? Sure, but that doesn't mean its the same volume of food or at the same interval, and it certainly doesn't mean that it finds that food in the same place. All of the facts affect the bite. To say it doesn't is borderline insane in my opinion. Now, if you want to make the point that on any given day, in any given weather condition a great bag of fish can be caught.....I buy that 100% and we are just arguing semantics I guess. The definition of affect is "to act on and cause change". Weather certainly does that to bass and bass forage.

I think we are in agreement here. My point is the fish eat every day. The weather doesn't cause the fish to have lockjaw. Of course bass feed less often in cold water than warm water. Of course water temperature changes move bait fish.

All my data showed is that fisherman (presumably changing their approach) catch plenty of bass in all sorts of weather conditions. More than all that, my data showed that weather doesn't matter much at all in comparison to fishing pressure.

I have recorded logs since early 80's and I see patterns of weather that do effect how and when they bite best. I agree you can catch a few just about anytime but I can assure you low barometric pressure is best.

I had some fish is a huge trailer tank back in the early 90's where I watched them for 4 months . Watched and recorded how, when,what they ate and for how long as well as barometric pressure, and colors where I had 10 native bass and 10 Florida strain bass.

Weather systems that bring in a low pressure and bad weather is usually a great time to catch a giant but high pressure behind the storm is extremely tough.

I learned a lot from this as well as tagging fish at Lake Fork to help me understand the Bass better and how to have success in catching them. 39 years later I am still after them and hope it never gets old.