Spring cold front?

[GoneFishingLTN]

Air temp was 64 today 67 tomorrow then 63 Friday but Saturday it’s 62 is just just a normal weather trend old a cold front? Sunday is 55 (the day in question is Saturday) 

 

 

[Catt]

Cloudy?

Bluebird?

Windy?

Calm?

 

[GoneFishingLTN]

[Pat Brown]

Yep that's a spring cold front and then when that weather passes and it's gonna be super blue skies in a day or 3, that's post frontal.

 

Fish hard leading up to and the day of the front hitting.  Fish usually suspend on the post frontal days and you gotta slow down to make em bite.

[GoneFishingLTN]

1 minute ago, Pat Brown said:

Yep that's a spring cold front and then when that weather passes and it's gonna be super blue skies in a day or 3, that's post frontal.

 

Fish hard leading up to and the day of the front hitting.  Fish usually suspend on the post frontal days and you gotta slow down to make em bite.

So saturday would be the front correct even though the weather doesn't change that day. They can feel it in the pressure? Making Saturday a slower fishing day? or would it just start on sunday? 

[Jig Man]

Generally pre spawn cold fronts have really slowed things down for me but not this year.  We’ve had frequent fronts with the nights getting into the low 30s and daytime highs in the low 60s.

 I’ve trimmed down my bait choices to Ned, shaky, and Keitech swim baits. 
We have been catching 30-40 bass each trip with 6-8 keepers on Table Rock and Beaver Lakes.

[Pat Brown]

44 minutes ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

So saturday would be the front correct even though the weather doesn't change that day. They can feel it in the pressure? Making Saturday a slower fishing day? or would it just start on sunday? 

 

 

The front sorta hits Saturday and looks like it's gonna hold out at least through Sunday and you should be able to fish 'cloudy weather with wind' conditions as you normally would.  Moving baits and reaction baits produce best during active fronts for me.

 

The thing is, it's been so warm lately that a cold front that doesn't really last many many days, isn't gonna mess with the fish too much.

 

I'd pay attention to surface temps.

 

If they're approaching 70, those fish won't budge.  They'll be up shallow right where they were before the front.

 

 

If you're in the low to mid 50s surface temps, I find fronts have more affect on the shallow bite.

 

If they're locked on bed and spawning, they will still be there during some nasty weather.  If they're pre spawn, they may go wild during the front and then pull back til surface temps stabilize/start climbing again.

 

There aren't any rules though, I'd just bring some slow and fast stuff that covers the water column and look for good spawning areas and fish them thoroughly.

 

[WRB]

The term cold front can be confusing as it’s actually the back of a low pressure system; the front of colder air windy weather; ie Saturday.

 

[Bankbeater]

Around here it's called your regular Saturday spring weather. 

[BigAngus752]

Here is what I experienced the last two weeks.  Small lake with extremely shallow north end where the bass spawn, deeper south end.  Two weeks ago the shallow end had reached 63-64 degrees.  Bass were not on beds but I was having a great time pulling in big bass hunkered down NEAR the spawning beds.  Then an extreme cold front hit with multiple nights at about 32 degrees.  Went out again and water temps had dropped 6-8 degrees in the same location I had been catching.  The fish were no where to be found. 

 

I waited a few days for a sunny day (we are still having cold-ish nights).  I went out and found the shallow north end spawning area was still at about 57 degrees (5-6 degrees lower than it had been).  Had another bass guy flag me down and tell me that he had only caught one bass and we discussed the cold front slamming the water temps.  I had no luck in the shallow north end.  It should have been warming up with several bright, sunny days but it hadn't warmed enough to get the fish active. 

 

So, I did the exact opposite of what I should be doing on that lake in late April.  I went all the way down to the south (deeper) end.  Guess what?  The surface water temps were still at 62-63 degrees.  It takes a LONGER amount of time for the DEEPER end of the lake to warm up, AND the same to COOL DOWN.  I started throwing into the thickest bank cover I could find with a 1/2oz jig and then a finesse craw T-rigged on a 3/0 hook and a 1/8 oz tungsten weight.  I caught 11 bass in 2 hours. 

 

Historically this little lake would be the dead sea on the south (deep) end at the end of April, but with the screwy weather it became the only active area. 

 

Moral of the long story:  After a bad cold front during pre-spawn try where they are supposed to be using what they should be eating.  If that doesn't work, look for the deeper water for warmer water.