cool weather bassin'

[Esox Luciano]

Got out Sunday after the whole sky cleared up even though I would've preferred the cloud coverage. Still managed a nice amount of bass & a small dart even with the fish being deep in weed beds. Think they're gettin ready for the cooler temps as well. Here's a few of the nicer 1's.

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[Chrisper4694]

nice catching man...we devoted our day to walleye early reading the 90-100% cloud cover ALL DAY forecasts which were WAY off, so needless to say we had a terrible day haha. glad to see you hammered on some largies though!! they can't hind from you in those weeds!!

[xDirty]

Looks like a good day to me. I had a good weekend as well. Might post some pics of mine later.

[logs22]

Originally Posted by xDirty

Looks like a good day to me. I had a good weekend as well. Might post some pics of mine later.

Glad some people are doing well with the fall transition, for someone like me that relied exclusively on the magic of a 5" senko all summer I am lost. Nothing will touch the only lure I am good with.

I will gladly take any fall pointers, just please don't tell me I need to start using crank bait lures, I have never in my life even gotten a bit on one. Hopefully jig bite stays good since I can fish those similar to senkos. Anyone have good results with plastic crawfish Texas rigged? The places i fish have lots of craws so that would seem to be a prime fall forage. Other than that I only see blue gills and frogs.

This was my only catch of the weekend despite going out for an hour both days, and another both nights, fishing nomahegan, echo, Lenape, and even randomly Lake Solitude near High Bridge when I got lost trying to find spruce run and phone/gps was dead. Never been to SR and didn't make it this time either.

[Esox Luciano]

@logs22, no cranks? I'll use any & everything I can use with a spin casting setup. If I can't get anything with inline spinners or small jerk & crank baits, soft plastics are always great. I specifically use 4" Skippy fish, for bass. The lighter your setup, the better action these lil guys have whichever way you choose to rig them. I usually have it Texas rigged using a trailer hook.

[logs22]

Originally Posted by Esox Luciano

@logs22, no cranks? I'll use any & everything I can use with a spin casting setup. If I can't get anything with inline spinners or small jerk & crank baits, soft plastics are always great. I specifically use 4" Skippy fish, for bass. The lighter your setup, the better action these lil guys have whichever way you choose to rig them. I usually have it Texas rigged using a trailer hook.

I always thought of inline spinners as trout lures, I have a couple Mepps somewhere gathering dust, should I give them a go for a bass bite? I don't mind rapala's, poppers, jitterbugs and other top water lures but for some reason diving cranks, even shallow divers, mystify me. You just cast and reel and can't see what your lure is doing, with a top water rapala, popper or frog there is more finesse and you can see what is Happening. Plus nothing beats a top water bite, especially when it's close to shore, getting dark, and not expected and you get blindsided. I will be first to admit I have had the shit scared out of me on more Than one occasion when a big bass jumped out of the dark just a few feet from me. Even more so when it's a massive carp that fully clears the water so close you get splashed when he lands.

[FishnChips]

when leaves r falling its spinnerbait TIME.

[xDirty]

Originally Posted by logs22

I always thought of inline spinners as trout lures, I have a couple Mepps somewhere gathering dust, should I give them a go for a bass bite? I don't mind rapala's, poppers, jitterbugs and other top water lures but for some reason diving cranks, even shallow divers, mystify me. You just cast and reel and can't see what your lure is doing, with a top water rapala, popper or frog there is more finesse and you can see what is Happening. Plus nothing beats a top water bite, especially when it's close to shore, getting dark, and not expected and you get blindsided. I will be first to admit I have had the shit scared out of me on more Than one occasion when a big bass jumped out of the dark just a few feet from me. Even more so when it's a massive carp that fully clears the water so close you get splashed when he lands.

inline spinners are one of my go-to lures. you can use them all year round and catch fish, ive caught everything from bass, pan fish to pickerel. Also the powerbait grub with a 1/16th oz jighead has been tearing it up lately for me. I havent done so well with them but gitzit tubes work really well and they say this is the perfect season for them, ive seen people do extremely well with them.

Watch some of lard almightys videos, also check out more youtubers

Heres a video on the powerbait grub. WATCH THE WHOLE THING, its only 52 seconds long, it demonstrates how amazing and versatile the grub really is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXXXXDLvvbA

You have to learn more about the theory about where the fish go each season and what temperature each fish likes to bite. You need to have a whole arsenal of fishing theory and lures at your disposal to figure our where the fish are and what they want that day. Thats what separates the good fisherman from just a random person who throws a poll in the water.

[Chrisper4694]

Many lures will work, but usually this time of year retrieve aggressively cover water. When you find them they should be feeding aggressive.