Once the water stabilizes in temp and sort of bottoms before the real winter hits, and any fall turnover has ran its course...I have found that the time right around the time the gun deer season opens here in Missouri (2nd weekend in November) is just plain good fishing and that's for just about everything. I don't go then as much as I use to....but my memory hadn't got that bad has it? Course fronts in general are funny to fish....sometimes good sometimes bad. Sometimes good on the coming in and bad on the going out,or vice versa.