What about a warm front?

[Gangley]

If you have a week or so of solid cool-cold weather, does a warm front kick the fish into gear, or does it throw them off?

[Grey Wolf]

Barometric pressure changes set them off , up or down at the beginning.

[Matt Fly]

If you have a week or so of solid cool-cold weather, does a warm front kick the fish into gear, or does it throw them off?

Since I don't know your region or location.

      What was the lake temp prior to the week long cold front?

After the cold front?     What did the warm front do to water temps?

    Heres the deal.      Even though you may have a 60 degree day with lake temps sitting at 50 degrees,   How much would the lake warm with one day of sunshine?  

     The key to remember is, the sun is getting further away in the fall and winter months and the NIGHTs ARE LONGER which means longer cooling periods and less sunshine means less heat.    We start having longer nights and short days.  

   It really depends on the water temps.    Warming trends definetly trigger some feeding activity.     Just don't assume that just because you have above average winter temps the fish will be active, it takes alot of heat to warm gin clear waters.

  Lakes start to warm up when the days get longer and the nights get shorter and the sun is nearing our part of the hemisphere again.

           

[ab8aac]

and muddy water will warm faster makes rattle trap fishing good

[Paul Roberts]

If you have a week or so of solid cool-cold weather, does a warm front kick the fish into gear, or does it throw them off?

Since I don't know your region or location.

      What was the lake temp prior to the week long cold front?

After the cold front? What did the warm front do to water temps?

Heres the deal.      Even though you may have a 60 degree day with lake temps sitting at 50 degrees, How much would the lake warm with one day of sunshine?

     The key to remember is, the sun is getting further away in the fall and winter months and the NIGHTs ARE LONGER which means longer cooling periods and less sunshine means less heat. We start having longer nights and short days.

It really depends on the water temps. Warming trends definetly trigger some feeding activity. Just don't assume that just because you have above average winter temps the fish will be active, it takes alot of heat to warm gin clear waters.

Lakes start to warm up when the days get longer and the nights get shorter and the sun is nearing our part of the hemisphere again.

           

Ditto.

Up here in the No'th, by the time the sun gets low and the days get short, nothing will re-heat waters appreciably. You are looking for fish and their food. What I'm aware of temperature wise at this time is drastically falling temps -cold fronts and snowstorms here. It appears this slows things down, and consolidates fish. I can still catch 'em though -if I can find 'em.

[Gangley]

What was the lake temp prior to the week long cold front?

~82 degrees

After the cold front?

~78 (Im in texas, we went from the mid 80's to mid 70's during the day, and that lasted about a week)

What did the warm front do to water temps?

-Dont know, warm front just came through yesterday, rain just left, will be fishing this evening.

Heres the deal.  Even though you may have a 60 degree day with lake temps sitting at 50 degrees, How much would the lake warm with one day of sunshine?

-Have no clue

The key to remember is, the sun is getting further away in the fall and winter months and the NIGHTs ARE LONGER which means longer cooling periods and less sunshine means less heat. We start having longer nights and short days.

It really depends on the water temps. Warming trends definetly trigger some feeding activity. Just don't assume that just because you have above average winter temps the fish will be active, it takes alot of heat to warm gin clear waters.

-I fish 2 acres waters that have clarity between 3-4 feet deep, with water depths reaching 10-12 feet in areas

Lakes start to warm up when the days get longer and the nights get shorter and the sun is nearing our part of the hemisphere again.

           

[RoLo]

The key to remember is, the sun is getting further away in the fall and winter months

The distance between the sun and earth has little or nothing to do with the temperature of air and water.

The earth is closest to the sun in January and farthest from the sun in July.

The temperature of air and water temperature is most dependent on the entry angle of the sun's rays,

augmented by day length (photoperiod). The atmosphere acts as an insulation for solar energy, and during winter,

when the sun's rays strike the earth most obliquely, the heat is filtered by more miles of atmosphere.

The more perpendicular the sun's rays strike the atmosphere, the less atmosphere needs to be penetrated

before reaching the earth.

More on topic, the absolute temperature of air and/or water isn't nearly as important as the current temperature trend.

A severe and protracted cold-front followed by a sharp warming trend is a Dream-Come-True for any vacationing angler.

Roger

[Matt Fly]

South, south east or central? What part of texas, better yet, what lake?

[Gangley]

Conroe, Texas, just north of Houston.  Its a private 2 acre lake.

[salmicropterus]

A warm front is basically a southerly (could be SW, S or SE) flow of air usually preceding another "cold" front. Sometimes it is called a "pre-frontal" condition. Warm fronts are usually accompanied by a falling barometer and cloud cover. The combination of the  warming air, the falling barometer and cloud cover should be positive for fishing, particularly if those are Florida strain bass which are pretty sensitive to those "prefrontal" conditions

[WRB]

I think a 2 acre lake in Texas is called a tank, we call them ponds. Whatever you call it it's too small to have much of a bass population per acre.

Think of the total water column when considering the effects of frontal conditions.

Your tank will be affected by the cold front wind, then the falling surface water temperature, then the warming surface water temperature. Bass don't like fast changes water temperatures, more than a 10 degree change can kill them.

The bass move into the deepest warmest water and tend to stay put for the remainder of the fall to winter period. The bass may move up to the warmest water in the late afternoon, during a warming period.

WRB

[steezy]

and muddy water will warm faster makes rattle trap fishing good

Amen to that, they are tearing the rat-L-traps up this week, I had one swallow one so far down I thought I was going to have to let him keep it.