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Crankbaits can be fished very slow . My top cold water lure is a crank fished on steep rocky sunny banks retrieved parallel and agonizingly slow .

I frequently do better in cold water conditions than I do in summer. I do find that fish have distinct "bite windows" where I experience brief flurries of action followed by long periods with little or none. Could be that the fish are more grouped up in winter. I fish ponds so that minimizes the location factor. I'm in central Indiana so we're probably going to ice up soon. Got out one more time yesterday and caught about a dozen in two hours on a blade bait and micro chatter. I really enjoy this time of year when conditions allow.

11 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

I frequently do better in cold water conditions than I do in summer. I do find that fish have distinct "bite windows" where I experience brief flurries of action followed by long periods with little or none. Could be that the fish are more grouped up in winter. I fish ponds so that minimizes the location factor. I'm in central Indiana so we're probably going to ice up soon. Got out one more time yesterday and caught about a dozen in two hours on a blade bait and micro chatter. I really enjoy this time of year when conditions allow.

 

This^.   Short window by bunched up fish that want what they want, sometimes it's an improvised BFS underspin...  

Don't automatically think deep. There are often bass shallow, especially on sunny afternoons.

Fish were in 6 fow today, when 8-11 fow was available to them just a few yards away. This is after a 10 degree temp drop in a week, down to 49 degrees. Overcast and a litte rainy.  Apparently they still prefer the weeds right now even though they are dead; this was the pattern all day. /shrug

Prime Time for smallmouth on the Tennessee River!