No matter where you live, I'm betting at some point you've experienced one of those unseasonably warm winter days where curiosity got the best of you and you took the bass gear out of hibernation for a few hours. Living in North Carolina, I often get a bunch of these days, and nothing gets you more pumped up than when you get on the lake and find shad flickering in the shallows and mark bass high in the water column. The anticipation is raging and all your senses are firing, but then it all comes crashing down when you can't get a bite throwing spinnerbaits and everything else you associate with bass around bait schools. That's because although it may look like a summer scenario, it's not summer, so you have to change your thinking.