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Home Fishing Videos Where to Fish Florida-Strain Bass During Cold Fronts

Where to Fish Florida-Strain Bass During Cold Fronts

Jason Sealock
Nov 21, 2019

Florida-strain largemouth bass react negatively to cold fronts but are still catchable so long as you make smart location and presentation adjustments. Shallow water expert Bill Lowen faced such conditions and demonstrated the power of moving to the thickest cover near where you had been catching them before the fronts and punching your way into the bass if necessary with a big weight.

He had been catching them really good the day before on a swim jig (https://youtu.be/UJF02pMxh_g) but figured out with the cold front, the better fish had moved into the much denser cover of hyacinth mats that blew into the corners of pockets and clumps of reed heads. Those thicker canopies give bass more protection from cold north winds and keep the water insulated for them. That’s what makes them such prime largemouth bass options on a lot of fisheries with Florida-strain bass.

He shares his favorite setup for punching matted grass like this and extracting big bass from the jungle while demonstrating how to put the bait into the heart of the mats and then keeping pressure on the fish to push them back through the cover on the hookset.

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Jason Sealock

Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners. Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure. He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP. He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.

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