It is often thought that cold fronts ruin bass fishing, but if you know where to look and understand some basic bass biology, you can be successful when the temperature drops and the barometer rises.
Cliff Pace says there are two key to catching fish during a cold front:
1) Location
2) Speed
Basically, slow down and find the area holding the most heat. One tactic that fits this bill perfectly is flippin’. Bass suck tight to heavy cover for comfort and warmth during these cold conditions and it’s easy to see why. Fish are cold-blooded creatures and are directly affected by the environment around them so as the temp drops, their desire to expend energy and feed drops with it.
When this happens fish are more apt to eat baits they don’t have to work for. Cliff will often choose a lizard for this as it adds bulk and can be fished slowly. The thickness of the cover determines the size of the weight needed to penetrate to get to the fish but in general, you want to fish the lightest weight you can get away with so the bait doesn’t go flying past them on the fall. Pace preaches the speed at which you fish to be the single most important thing. You need to focus on small areas that you can fish as thoroughly as possible.
Cliff focuses on the northern shores of lakes as they are sheltered from the cold north winds of winter. They also receive to most sunlight on a given day which makes them the warmest parts of the lake. Since this water can be limited, pace again chooses to fish these areas slowly and methodically. As the pre-spawn, spawn progresses, Big female bass seek out these areas to maintain energy to spawn and to help incubate the eggs. Which is just another reason to fish these high percentage areas.
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heat wave here this morning..36 and rising. Still going out on the water with my jigs
Bass are cold blooded so they don't seek warm water to '' warm themselves ''. Water temps only affect their metabolism and activity levels so as anglers we have to adjust accordingly.
Dang good info. thanks for the insight!
It always tickle me when they say winter fishing in Florida 😆what's that 60 degrees. Yall notice Florida winter water temp 67 degrees on his finder not to knock it great video regardless just jealous I don't live in Florida
Great info, and video..
"faced with some very….*sets hook*….difficult fishing conditions"
Damn his hook set almost boat flipped the fish from 10ft out.. Lol cold, lethargic Bass gave little resistance.
They should be making cold front videos in the north. With Jeff Gustafson or Seth feider. Not Florida 😂
Most norther guys would be fishing in shorts in Florida’s hard days.
Your cold fronts and my cold fronts are not the same.
great tips, very educational. why do so many bass fisherman reel their fish by dragging it above the water? it feels like they’re always rushed, and that takes the fun out of it. stiff rods, braided line, and ultra quick reeling = 0 fun
Reel good tips thanks and always keep on fishing on when ever you have the chance🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯🎣💯
Nice to see water being liquid again
0:10 "difficult fishing conditions" as her fishing out of reeds… my pond is still frozen
Cold front in Florida: dang man we can’t throw top water for like 2 days! Our water temps dropped to like 72 and I had to put pants on!
Lol looks awful I don't know how you get by in those terrible Florida conditions
Wish I was in Florida
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