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  | I was wondering how your tactics change when you are smack dab in the middle of a cold front.  Should I switch to larger, slower baits; or stick with what I usually would throw during normal weather?  
  
Thanks | 
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  | It seems that during cold fronts the fish suck up tight to cover.  They may hover down in the weeds or drop to the bottom of a break line.  I like plastic at this time.  Bulldawgs or jig and creatures fill the bill.  I will also try spinner baits, crawling them through the weeds of float down a break line.  You have to get the bait in front of the fish, stick it in her face.     
  
Good luck,Murph | 
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  | You've got options whether you're casting or trolling.  
  
Casting: plastics, a spoon, a spinnerbait (drop and lift), or a jig.  (Perhaps a twitch bait over the weeds.)  
  
Trolling: spoon, spinnerbait, small crankbait.  
  
Keep them TIGHT to the weeds and run them SLOW!  
  
Steve Wickens | 
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  | Can you say SLOW!  
  
I prefer to fish many of the same areas... but I work my lures extremly slow.  
  
If its a glide bait like an Undertaker...its side to.............................................side....................................................to...........side...............................................................................to side. and a change up once or twice to trigger the slow following muskie.  
  
Make the fish eat it, if its just too darn easy...he will.  
  
Twitching minnow baits like Slammers in a very slow motion with lots of pauses and rises.  
  
This works for me, | 
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  | I usually throw my normal suick and reef hawg but work them ALOT slower | 
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