Today must be weather day. A question on fronts.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Ok fellas, help me out here.

We all know fishing before an approaching front can be awesome and post front can be some difficult fishing.

What determines pre front or post front in this scenario:

Front comes through on Thursday and Friday, leaving just in time for the weekend.  Forcasted weather shows no clouds and mostly sunny for the Saturday and Sunday fishing days.  Monday, another front is coming through....

Are Saturday and Sunday post front conditions, or does the approaching Monday front make those days pre-frontal?

I realize any time on the water is a good time to be fishing, but I am trying to figure out the weather portion of the fishing puzzle.

Thanks,

Wayne

[Dad_Golf_Fish]

I don't know about the habits of bass well enough to comment on that, and I've seen enough talent here who will probably explain that aspect of it shortly, but in relation to weather, the significant change in wind speed/direction, temp, and pressure should easily identify the passage of the first front. At that time, you are post-frontal. If the next front is coming in that fast, it also will mark the start of the pre-frontal condition.

I'm not a bass, but if I saw/felt/sensed two fronts coming that close together, I would probably just hunker down till the second one passed.

[BadKarma42]

Perhaps the ending of a front and beginning of a front will cancel each other out.

Let the fish tell you.   :-?

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Let the fish tell you. :-?

I am going to throw you out of the boat next time.

[IdahoLunkerHunter]

Speed, I would carefully watch the barometric pressure. On a falling pressure trend the fish will be most active as you are probably well aware of. The pressure changes are most affected in shallower waters. If you can't get bit in the shallower areas I would more to deeper water because the deeper water is not as affected as much.

Also a change of just +\- .02 in the pressure will affect feeding habits. So if the pressure drops during the first front and since the second front is coming in two days later the pressure might still be dropping during the weekend even though it is sunny out. Watch your pressure and I would go from there.

Pressure dropping I would fish brightest lures with fast retrieval. Spinnerbaits, cranks and topwater.

During the front I would fish medium running lures at normal speed. I would also seek out cover and move up in the water column toward creeks and bays flipping plastics and jigs.

If your pressure is rising through the weekend expect a quick drop right before the second front. Rising trend I would fish brighter lures and fish on ledges near sudden drops and points.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

its been so unstable anyhow here on the east coast rain rain chilly chilly but the bass dont seem to mind .now if april was stable through may and june .the fronts would bother them more .But since its roller coasting week too week the bass have adapted to it .I know a front has more impact on fish and fishing if the month prior to it hass been stable weather..example summer 100 deg and humid for 3 weeks each day BAMMM we get 2 days of  60 to 70 deg weather and storms ,,U can catch fish immediately afterwards even a few hrs but afte rthat they get lockjaw about a 3 or 4 days till its gets stable again.now this is my experiance on a 3 acre pond i have fished my whole life .Each body of water reacts diff to changes some take longer to recover some it happens really fast and ends fast some it dont even bother it  Another example  pond A is 1 mile from lake A and has shallow water no deeper then 8 foot .Lake A is 350 acres with 40 foot water ,a 12 hr front comes through which body of water will change faster???

[Tin]

You're over thinking dude, lol. Unless it's early spring or spawn time I don't pay much attention to fronts. The fish up here go through tons of them and are much more conditioned to them than fish down south from what I have experienced.

Saturday and Sunday sound like great days to go shallow with a jig to everything that casts a little bit of shade.

[BadKarma42]

Let the fish tell you. :-?

I am going to throw you out of the boat next time.

Nice work!

[Mottfia]

  From what I hear Tin is right. Yall ahve so many cold fronts that the fish are only affected for a short period of time or not affected at all.

  If you were in the south then you would see a number of things depending on how mush the pressure changes but from the experiences that I have the fish will be tough for the day after the front but with the new front coming they are going to have to feed up hard, which they will do right before the front reaches us.

 The best way to reason this is that the fish here this time of year are feeding hard to recover from sqawning and to deal with their rising metabolism. We also have the shad and bluegill sqawn this time of year, so the fish can't afford not to feed up while they need it and its easy to get.

Mottfia