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So last week we had 80 degree weather and the crappie were pushing in. This week it has snowed everyday. How do you guys attack cold fronts during the spawn? Are the fish going to leave spawning situations all together and go back into their previous pattern? Move? but not far? I'd love to hear your game-plans for these types of situations.
We had near 90 deg. for the last couple weeks, and had a cold front come throught this past weekend with lows dipping into the 40's. The majority of the fish moved to the nearest deeper drop from the shallow spawning ares. I was catching fish in around 10 to 12' of water next to the shallow flats. There were still some fish shallow, but only one here and there, and they could still be caught, but the better fish and the numbers had moved back out to deeper water. Yesterday later in the day once the sun came out and the wind died down, it reached the mid 70's and some of the larger fish were slowly moving back up to shallow water.
we start in the shallow water and work our way out to the nearest deep water. When the spawn gets going the fish are not going to move to far away from their area
Same here as LOCATOR said - we had 80 degree weather all week then last Saturday a coldfront came thru and the crappie went from the banks (2' ft deep) to about 15' of water last sunday. Then late in the afternoon sunday the sun came out and they started moving back in.But Generally they will go deep on coldfronts.