Need Help Or Some Tips Pulling My Hair Out Lol

[Kanonball92]

Ok so I've had awesome year well "summer " bassfishing at my local lakes .... So anyways I live in pa so fall is here . So my problem is I can't seem to get any bites at all I mean I Cought 2 the other day and one of them was very nice about 4lbs today I Cought 1 .... Clearly I'm not keeping up with the changes I've Ben catching my only bass on DT-16 I've throw eveything from spinnerbaits all way to lipless and even pulled out some plastics ... I have crankbiats of every color and size and nothing working ... The water temps are anywhere from 67-73 right now and visibility is about 4-6 feet with stained green coloer water and also water dropped about 5 feet in last 4 weeks this lake Have a dam that's the reason for drop in water . I know this time year should be lipless cranks and cranksbaits what am I doing wrong ? I normally don't ask for help but it's starting to eat me up

[aquaholic]

Have you tried different speeds while retrieving cranks? I had great luck the other day burning them. 

[bassguytom]

The water temp. has to drop some it was heading there but then we had the warm spell and it went back up. When the water temp. Drops into the 60's start throwing the lipless crank. Yo yo it burn it let it sink to the bottom and let the bass tell you what they want. Good luck.

[BuffaloBass716]

I live in the north as well, fall is definitely here and instead of fishing where I normally would, I've went up into a creek that connects to the main river and found the bass chasing baitfish.  You wont catch bass if they are not there.  Try looking for bass and baitfish on the surface feeding. If you know the fish are there, then try throwing things that look like local forage for your lake. Other than that, just keep trying. We've all had days were you can't seen to catch a fish.

[David P]

Crankbaits aren't always the "answer", when it's tough throwing plastics definitely helps sometimes. Have you tried a wacky rigged senko? A drop shot?

[WRB]

Find the baitfish, the bass will be close is true everywhere. The problem is you locate the baitfish, see bass feeding on them and they do not react to lures. This happens when bass are focused on a abundant baitfish like threadfin shad for example. You either net shad and fish live bait or try spoons or A-rigs etc.

Dropping water levels usually pulls bass off the bank into deep water, raising water they move up. Fall can be boom or bust, you need to be versitle and mobile willing to search for moving bass and try different lures.

Tom

[bigbill]

Don't pull your hair out you will end up bald like me.

Try a rapala original floating minnow 2" either match the color of the baitfish or go with the black or blue one.

I been using a blue/chartreuse rapala countdown minnow with success in stained/muddy water conditions by vertically jigging it. I drop it till it hits the bottom then reel it up 6" to 10" off the bottom and start twitching then pausing it till I get a strike.

When using spinnerbaits I try a few casts above the sight line first with a shot of yum

scent. Then I slow up the speed enough so it runs below the sight line were we can't see it. Down size your spinner bait to a smaller one with willow blades. In stained or muddy water conditions I use the hot chartruse colored skirt.

Don't forget the scents. Bigbill

[smalljaw67]

I live in PA and I know what the problem is, it happens every year, temperature fluctuation, what happens is the night is cool and the water temp drops a good bit as the days are shorter. I hit the water last week and the water temp was 58, by the time we took out it had climbed back up to 76, but the temps have dropped by 10 to 15 degrees this week, so the lakes here will finally finish turnover and then next week the bite should be better but keep after it, these are the days when you may only get 3 bites but most of the time they are good ones, the good fall bite is only a week or 2 away at most.

[SirSnookalot]

Find the baitfish, the bass will be close is true everywhere. The problem is you locate the baitfish, see bass feeding on them and they do not react to lures. 

Baitfish quite often is the key in all bodies of water.  I'm fishing one of my community ponds the other day and nothing going on until I spot some nervous water.  First cast fish on and almost every other cast as well, the bait disapated and the bite went dead.