Fall Bass Fishing?

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Permalink Reply by David on October 9, 2009 at 4:02pm

Thanks for the advice Josh, looking forward to freezing my Arse off and catching fish LOL.

Josh Potter said:

This is the last hoorah of feeding before winter. Think about how awesome the fishing gets in the spring when the water finally cracks that 50 degree mark consistently. Are the fish active or in conservation mode at 50 degrees?

David said:

Thats what got me, last weekend at Newman I was getting some fish but only on the hard swimbait with a quick retrieve. I was like you thinking they would be in energy conservation. I will def give the spinners and crankbait more of a look.

Kevin Bye said:

Last weekend I was at Silver and the bass seem to really enjoy spinnerbaits with a fast retrieve.
The water temps were in the low 60's,I would have thought the last thing they'd want would be a fast moving bait. My uneducated line of thinking suspected that they would be a bit more slow moving and not wanting to burn up a bunch of energy.....but I was wrong(duh)
I'll be at it again this weekend but since spinnerbaits work so well last weekend...well,I'll be trying everything under the sun.
Good luck
Kevin

Permalink Reply by David on October 11, 2009 at 8:27pm

Well my neighbor Derek and I hit the water at 7am Sunday it was a balmy 17 degrees at Newman. The water was freezing up in the eyelets of the pole and bait caster. I hooked into a nice Tiger had it almost to the boat when it spit the swimbait at me. That was all the fishing I did the rest of the day was just casting. Derek landed a nice small mouth about 30 minutes before we headed home at about 2:30 pm. We are both scratching our heads on where the fish are. We fished known spots even tried areas that we had never fished before. This fall fishing sucks. By the way the water temp was 52 - 53 degrees.

Permalink Reply by Joel Alinen on October 11, 2009 at 9:12pm

I can relate to what you guys are all feeling. I've been out to stevens the last couple days and havent been able to get much of anything. Where are these fish moving? Will it really fire up n november?

Permalink Reply by Todd Reis on October 11, 2009 at 9:22pm

Dudes, All i can say is start out with some rapalas on the surface. If that doesnt work throw some crankbaits. Lotsa rattling 6-8ft down. ripp it fast and let it set then rip again and let it set. Worked great for me today at Tanwax. Nothing big.Some fat 12 1/2 inchers all over the shallow bays about 20 ft out from the pads..Good times!! The fall is the feeding time and they all had feeding bags attached to their faces.That was the trick today..T.

Joel Alinen said:

I can relate to what you guys are all feeling. I've been out to stevens the last couple days and havent been able to get much of anything. Where are these fish moving? Will it really fire up n november?

Permalink Reply by David on October 12, 2009 at 9:03am

Hey Ron thanks for the info, we used mainly hard swimbaits and cranks all day. The lone small mouth caught we decided to just drift a hula grub texas rigged at about 15-20 ft. I talked to several other friends that went to Banks Saturday and they caught 30+ smallies using similar techniques all fish were small but they were biting. The water temp at Banks was 58 and Newman water temp was 53 unfortunately I dont have a temp guage that reads different depths so those are the only numbers I can go by.

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

Guys it seems that it is all about water temps this time of year. Not just the surface but all layers of water. To give advice for one day will totally knull and void for the next. You need to be paying attention to the temps. Some lakes are just now turning over and the water temps are the same from top to bottom leaving the fish scattered all over the place from deep to shallow. This makes fishing really tough. I seen some guys post that the water temps were in the 60's and they thought they had to slow down. This is not true at all, think about the spring water temps around that send the fish into the spawn and they are whacking fast moving spinnerbaits and cranks even buzzbaits . Cold fronts can affect the bite as well, typical stable weather conditions make for stable fishing from my experience. The largies really don't really go off the bite to the temps go below the 50's. As for smallmouth when the water temps start dropping rapidly they gorge themselves, on the west side they move to winter haunts faster then on the eastside, typically speaking. The smallies will hang out pretty shallow and gorge and don't really move until the food disappears. Once the water gets cool below about 48 the fish tend to stack back up on their winter homes.

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on October 12, 2009 at 9:48am

I didn't get to fish this weekend but I was out and about early in the morning. I have never seen the weather this cold this early. I saw 9 degrees on my pickup thermometer Saturday morning. I have some buddies that fished CDA Saturday. One boat did well and one sucked. They both know the lake well and are good fishermen. I should have asked them how thick the ice was. I am wondering if we are going to stay on this pattern or if we will return to normal fall conditions and fishing. At least in the spring you know it will eventually warm up even if it's not as soon as you would like but every day we are getting closer to winter.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Bye on October 12, 2009 at 10:06am

Thanks Ron,great information and its much appreciated.

Saturday was red hot on Kapowsin with a white spinnerbait...it may have been better with
another lure but since I caught a dink right away,I never tried anything else.
Found several lmb sitting outside lillypads and around downed logs. It seemed like every
3-5 cast yielded a fish,most were half and one pounders but did get 2 much bigger ones.
They'd chase that bait all the way back to the boat. However,Sunday I fished those same areas
and only got a few very small bass and they weren't chasing the bait like the day prior.
Just amazing how the fishing flipped from one day to the next.
Hoping to be back at it again this weekend.

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