How do you fish a weather front?

[fishinchicks]

What presentations do you use when a warm front goes through, accompanied by t-storms (after the rain, of course)? How about a cold front - what gets them to bite?

[Deitz Dittrich]

Ohh boy... I don't even know where to start here. The truth of the answer is, if you know the answer to this question, quit your job and go hit the pro-bass tour somewhere, because you can make a lot of money!!! Thats why its called fishing and not catching all the time.

Weather affects fishing, thats all there is to it. No matter what the weather is, it will affect the fishing somehow. Learning to adapt to what that weather is doing will show up in how successfull you are at putting fish in your boat. Lure size, speed, color, depth, and vibration are all changeable things. Finding the right combination for the given conditions is the chess match we play every day we put our bait in the water.

When someone has the feeling that conditions are going to be tough, many times people will downsize. Make thier lure smaller and more natural in color and fish it slower. These will offer the fish something that if they are in a negative mood, it may just fire them up enough to hit it anyway. Another thing I have found on some days when fishing is tough is to speed way up. Dont give them a chance to think, on days when they have to think they often change thier mind and not eat. Dont give them that chance. However, that only works some days, and I have yet to figure out what days that is till I try it and find out if it works or not.

So that right there is the moral to the story. At the landing you have to make an educated guess what the fish will hit that day. The fish will let you know! If you arent catching them it can only be because of 2 reasons. 1-the fish are not where you are, or 2 they dont want what you are throwing.

So when faced with tough conditions. Slow down, use smaller lures, more natural colors. Or try something different?