I've been at the beach catching some flounder and I havn't had a chance to hit the lake but plan to today. My question is this, how this cold front that came in on Sunday effect the bass fishing? When I left the air temps were in the low 80's mid day and low 60's at night. When I got back mid day is in the low 70's and low 40's at night. The water temps pre-cold front was 69-71 degrees respectively. I'm not certain how much the water temps have changed with the cold night air since I havnt hit the lake this week. What should I expect this afternoon?

I've been at the beach catching some flounder and I havn't had a chance to hit the lake but plan to today. My question is this, how this cold front that came in on Sunday effect the bass fishing? When I left the air temps were in the low 80's mid day and low 60's at night. When I got back mid day is in the low 70's and low 40's at night. The water temps pre-cold front was 69-71 degrees respectively. I'm not certain how much the water temps have changed with the cold night air since I havnt hit the lake this week. What should I expect this afternoon?

Air temps matter little, water temps mean everything. Water is 850 times denser than air, that in practice means that water warms or cools a lot slower than air, water temp remains stable for a much longer period of time than air. What can you expect: the water temp will remain pretty much the same, so from the water temp point of view your approach is the same for that water temp.

What makes the fish change their mood is not the water temperature but the weather pattern. Cold fronts are usually associated with high pressure which means little or no cloud cover, which increases light penetration, increased light penetration makes the fish move deeper, to bury themselves into vegetation or to position themselves under the shade. That 's what you should look for firstin order to fisnd the fish.

deeper water

cover

shade.

To follow up to let you know how my afternoon went, It was a poor day of fishing!!! I tried a large variety of tactictics, depths, colors, etc. I only caught one smallmouth yesterday and that was just being in the right place at the right time. I saw the baitfish scatter and jump as I was fast trolling from one point to another in open water about 50 yds off the bank and tossed a spinner bait in there and he hit it pretty much as soon as it landed in the water. I continued to fish that area and the area in the direction the baitfish were moving for a few minutes and had no luck. Maybe next time!

Did you try pitching into the cover? They might be holding tight to the structure.

                                         joe

OPPS.. hit post somehow.

The reason I'm asking is I was out fishing yesterday and I couldn't catch a bite, until I went back around the lake with just my pitching rod and was throwing tight to the cover with a football jig and a red shad ribbon-tail worm and caught 12 fish in just about 2 hours.

OPPS.. hit post somehow.

The reason I'm asking is I was out fishing yesterday and I couldn't catch a bite, until I went back around the lake with just my pitching rod and was throwing tight to the cover with a football jig and a red shad ribbon-tail worm and caught 12 fish in just about 2 hours.

I did, I actually spent a lot of time fishing cover. There are a ton of tree's in this lake from a past hurricane and I usually do pretty good flipping a trick worm or a jig in there but I just couldnt get anything going. This is a very clear lake anyway but yesterday I could see the bottom at 7ft so I think the clear skies probably hurt me more than anything else. I positions my boat as far away as I could and still be accurate just in case the fish could see me but still nothing.