freaking spring cold fronts

[carolina-rig-01]

this weekend i am fishing a big tournament, first place is a new triton bass boat, second place is $10,000 and so on. my partner and i were on a really good pattern catching fish on crankbaits. these fish were stacked up on points at the mouths of spawning coves waiting for the right water temp, moon phase, or something. anyways we were really confident that we could catch at least 20lbs which should put us up somewhere around the top. the other day my partner and a buddy of his had 22lbs with in the first 2 hours of the day and it has been like this for quite a while now. then yesterday morning we had a cold front blow in and the water temp dropped by 10 degrees and our fish were either gone or completley shut down. we managed 3 or 4 smaller keepers over the day on crankbaits. before we got on the water i was really expecting the crankbait bite to be non-existant and was expecting to have to slow down with a jig or shakey head. i had one knock the daylights out of a jig, but i missed it and nothing at all on the shakey head. all day it was like the fish were not eating the bait but just hitting it with their mouth closed. by the way the only thing i hate more than throwing a shakey head is throwing a shakey head and not catching fish lol i am just not a finesse guy at all. they are calling for another warm front to move in tonight and it is supposed to warm things up over the next few days. i really think that these fish are wanting to do their spring time romance and if we get this warm front like they say we will i really expect these fish to go crazy and probably the crankbait bite will return just as strong or maybe even stronger. or at least that is what i am hoping for because if not then we will be stuck making a lot of on the water adjustments which could mean disaster for us.