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so for years uh we believed that in
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order to catch fish during those
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if you went to your favorite fishing
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and a cold front came in
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that those fish would disappear and they
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would disappear for days on end so you
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might as well pack your bags and call it
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a day and go to the billiard hall that's
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at least half of my fishing life and the
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wind is from the north that's when that
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one in the you know in the winter in the
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and why is that by the way why east
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seem to be the the nastiest one because
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usually there's a storm or a cold front
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but i'm saying why is it coming from the
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because the newfoundlanders want to get
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a bunch of irish holes over there
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but anyways yeah so so theory was okay
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you know what call today you're done and
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then we started learning more about fish
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you know one of the most important
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things to keep in mind is that fish do
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not feel temperature change
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just because you're up top they're
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freezing your ass off this would be the
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fish are down there shaking in their
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boots as well it's just not the case
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because they're cold blooded creatures
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yeah their water temperature is their
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body temperature exactly so they they're
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they're comfortable whatever the
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temperature is they just have to make
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that quick adjustment and they're
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comfortable yeah so what was causing
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these uh creatures to to well as in our
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thinking they disappeared
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fish were still there they just started
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behaving differently and
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what used to be an aggressive fish all
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of a sudden becomes a neutral fish or
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even worse a negative fish
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once again that didn't mean that they
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don't have to eat and do all the things
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that a fish normally has to do just
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means that their their circle
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has gotten much smaller
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their circle meaning their activity
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a fish that might have been roaming the
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flats during peak periods is now
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confined to a particular spot and that
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spot is generally with some sort of
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cover some sort of and it doesn't have
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to be cover as we know it you know i
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mean as bass anglers cover to us as real
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thick junk overhead cover docks uh weeds
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wood those are great cover but it can
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also be take cover can also be a a drop
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these are all areas that during the cold
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front and frontal conditions are fish
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magnets and we learned to cope with it
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so we had to change yes it was still
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uncomfortable yes we were still shaking
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in our boots yes we had to put on an
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extra layer of clothing but all of a
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sudden you know when we started
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understanding this it became easier
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because the fish weren't moving away
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from us they weren't roaming around once
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we isolate where they were boom bob's
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your uncle so wherever you normally
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catch those fish don't go too far during
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a cold front just look for something
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that you would consider to be cover and
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including deep water by the way as as
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falling into that cover category and if
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you do that your fishing will increase
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by a thousand percent guarantee and work
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harder it's don't expect 20 bites for
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that one bite you know what i mean and
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that one fish that you're looking for
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you think he's there so
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come on now and we've done it on the
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fishing show on fish and canada show
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many times where we've shown that actual
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uh transition from from you know
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the the horn of plenty to the one fish
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bite but but you could still find them
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and you could still enjoy it and besides
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get used to it because that's the way
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another very quickly another one ann's
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brought up the the point of the fish you
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know does he go to a thick weed bed or
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whatever but they'll find anything
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two strands of weed sticking off the
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bottom two simple strands of weed that
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fish will a large mouth let's say we'll
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just cover it and just sit right beside
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that and not do anything for a day or
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two he just is what he wants to stay
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there he just feels i don't know if it's
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a comfort zone if it's protection or
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whatever but here's an easy way to
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remember what pete just said
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because it's all about the presentation
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during those those uh periods where
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you've got a barometer change
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so when everything is perfect which does
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not happen that often but perfect would
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be three days of very stable weather and
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that stable weather doesn't have to be
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mild high skies and 85 degrees and
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stable weather the barometer has not
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shifted significantly for three days in
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chances are your fish are going to be
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during those conditions think in terms
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horizontal presentations that's when you
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throw out the spinnerbait you throw out
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the crankbait you throw anything that
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you can fish horizontally involving
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casting trolling any of that stuff
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you don't have those ideal conditions
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which by the way represents most of the
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time that we're out fishing
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you need to fish vertically and those
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two strands of weed that pete just
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if you don't get your bait within close
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proximity of those two strands of weeds
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during the cold front period you're not
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going to catch the cold front fish
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there you go so horizontal when they're
