Post cold front conditions for stripers

[schoolie monster]

So, I had a good visit with my dad this past week. We fished thur/fri and did alright thursday... friday was down right tough.

We found some nice schoolies in boston harbor and had some fun on light tackle. Not alot of surface activity, but we found fish in some rips and rocks. We found some pollock and live-lined them in some good areas. Despite a few runs, we didn't hook up.

We got 21 fish thurs (I kicked his butt... 17-4, he was rusty and lost a few), just one 30" keeper, but alot of solid mid 20" schoolies. Friday we managed just 12 fish and half of those were pretty small. Dad did edge me out, 7 to 5.

We had a good time as we always do... but fishing was definitely slow.

Anyways, the purpose of my post was to see what you guys generally think about cold fronts and stripers. I fished freshwater bass alot growing up and fronts always affected the fishing, sometimes for days.

Thursday (sorry, that was wednesday night) night we had a large front come in and friday was classic blue bird sky post cold front conditions. We don't talk alot about how it affects stripers... or maybe we do and I'm not paying attention.

I've heard alot of good reports and have experienced some darn good fishing right before and during the onset of the front... usually in a storm. This was similar in freshwater fishing. I think that part of things has been discussed. I've had arguably my best schoolie and eelin' day/night right in the middle of a northeast blow. I'm more talkin' about the aftermath.

How do you guys feel about post cold front fishing?

I'm starting to believe that like fw bass, stripers get inactive and you have to fish really slow and small (baits). Or get a live bait right in front of them... But the change in barometric pressure would be felt by any fish, lake, river or ocean.