Post- Front Which Bait?

[Green Trout]

Which techniques and baits do yall fish when it's after a front with high air pressure?

Thanks so much, I hope I get a lot of comments. I haven't been getting too many I don't know why???

[scaleface]

Topwaters are usually out. Other than that , I just go fishing. 

[scaleface]

OK , one lure that I like to use when bites are hard to come by on high bluebird days is a small Rapala x-rap. I usually use three twitches then pause. 

[HoosierHawgs]

Deep diving jerkbaits, large deep diving flat sided cranks.

[RoLo]

After the leading edge of a cold-front has passed, we'll be dealing with a flat surface, high blue skies and passive bass.

Many fishermen move deeper during postfrontal conditions, but I'll generally cling to the same water depth

but fish close to bottom and more slowly. You have many options such as a jig & craw, wacky worm, dropshot ~ ~

 

Roger

[Bluebasser86]

I opt for 1 of 2 options. Either you pick up a jig or shakyhead and resign to fishing very slowly and just concentrating on high percentage areas, or you pick up a crankbait/spinnerbait and cover as much water as possible to pick up any active fish you can. 

[HoosierHawgs]

I opt for 1 of 2 options. Either you pick up a jig or shakyhead and resign to fishing very slowly and just concentrating on high percentage areas, or you pick up a crankbait/spinnerbait and cover as much water as possible to pick up any active fish you can.

Or do both as a one two punch, so to speak. First, use a few moving baits like a spinnerbait, crankbait, or jerkbait go find where fish... Then, once you catch a few, further dissect the area you caught them in.

[Catt]

I'll move out 1 breakline, throw heavier jigs, T-rigs, c-rigs, spinner baits & fish slower while staying in contact with the bottom.

[Senko lover]

I've been turning to jigs more and more for any scenario. They excel in so many conditions.

[gardnerjigman]

Usually my approach is to throw a shaky head. Slow and easy.

[Felix77]

Usually my approach is to throw a shaky head. Slow and easy.

This! My preference is the VMC Rugby with a finesse worm.

[smalljaw67]

Jig, T-rigged worm, and a shaky head just because in that type of situation the fish stay tight to cover and will rarely chase a bait. That said, a cold front in summer is the one time where I'll fish a moving bait and for that situation I really like the flat side crankbait, a Rapala DT Flat 7 ir if there is shallow cover I'll opt for the DT Flat 3 but most other times I will resort to techniques where I can fish a bait in or close to cover for a long time very slowly.

[Megastink]

Depends on the season. Prespawn/spawn, swim jig or jerkbait, post spawn, swim jig, deep crank, jig, dropshot. Summer: reaction baits.

[Master Bait'r]

I like suspending baits when conditions make the fishing slower. Just stalling it there and giving it a few twitches seems to make all the difference.

[scaleface]

I like suspending baits when conditions make the fishing slower. Just stalling it there and giving it a few twitches seems to make all the difference.

When  hooking bass on the side of the face , its time to try this .

[primetime]

The very next day after cold front in Srping I will usually find the fish backing out of the spawning flats, bays and first areas of warm water so I figure the fish either went out to the first drop and it will be the one that has structure and deeper and shallow water both easy to get too so they can flee or feed. Most of the time I find that they move tight to cover and shoreline structure so I bring my spinning rod, tubes and flukes, and skip to get the bait deep under and in laydowns etc. cause they won't move far. I look for good structure water temps usually stay the same unless it is super cold for 3-4 days, but they are usually on bottom and you need to put you bait on top of them and if you work a weed edge and say a crank bait 2' to the side it is probably not going to produce but get a finesse jig with a slow fall and trailer that allows it to flutter like a paca craw or rage chunk, use as light as line as possible, I usually try to go 8-10lb camo line and just struggled but I finally started getting them in the afternoon on a 1/8 weedless spoon with a 4" double tail grub in watermelon orange and the slower it fell the better, same with a jig, we actually started to throw hair jigs and road runners and did well, I always try a 4" senko on a darter head as well, or any bait on a darter head to work the water horizontal and vertical to cover shoreline. If you get one fish you will usually find more with them especially now, usually the 2nd day after cold front is better and if it gets sunny they will suspend in upper 2-3' to get sun and warmth so I love using shallow running minnow baits, soft baits, lately I am into the subwalk from Rapala and SLender Eel from Sebile and Max rap which all suspend under surface any depth you want...the sebile is awesome finesse jerkbait with a killer action and detail, but Patrick Sebile is a legend when it comes to designs, He has a killer line of baits and just wish I could work a few like he can...Pins minnow by yo-zuri is a good lure this time of year for long casts and action on tough days, i don't like alot of flash after cold fronts unless it is something small.....just what I do but I have done well if later in spring on topwaters like the Devils Horse since they will get back to feeding if spawned out for sure much quicker.

[Fishes in trees]

It depends on the season, but generally "low and slow" is my overall approach.