Too often the most perfect fishing day of the year is often the worst fish-catching day of the year. Don t continue using the same strategies that worked the day before. Those tactics won t work. Accept the fact that this is a cold front and that the fish have moved. New locations and major presentation changes are in order.
Cold fronts trigger a defensive reaction in walleyes.
Walleyes, whose entire focus had been to seek food yesterday, will be seeking security today. Regardless of the time of the year, think of cold front fishing as if it were fall fishing. The methods and locations are the same. If you have had hot fish scattered on a flat or on the top of a long shallow point before the cold front comes through, they will be gone, but not far. Use your electronics and start checking the closest drop-offs, at depths of anywhere from 10 to 30 feet.