Cold fronts are déjà-vu, and frequent. During a typical fishing season, two or three days of stable weather per week always seems to be followed by an equal amount of cool, breezy, bluebird days. Most of these post-front days occur under the worst possible timing too – at the beginning of a highly anticipated fishing trip where hot bites are taking place. Untimely cold fronts deliver wind shifts, barometric pressure changes, clearing skies, and bitterly cold air temperatures. Any combination will result in a change in bass behavior. It’s possible to counter cold fronts, but very difficult. Specific fishing styles and uncanny strategies seem to excel when things take a turn for the worst. Anglers who can force themselves to abandon yesterday’s hot pre-frontal fishing pattern and figure out a new one will catch fish. And anglers failing to adjust ultimately struggle. Many anglers fall into these traps. Last September, we had a run of 5 consecutive good days of guiding in which clients were catching 4 and 5 pound smallmouths on paddletails, with multiple big fish per day. The steady fishing expired during the middle of a trip the next day upon the arr