Turtle135 Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 It's that magical time in the fall where I paddle around in my kayak watching my fish finder intently. Most of the year I am looking for conditions that ought to hold bass. This time of year it seems the best bet is to keep looking until you start marking fish. Acres of nothing, no marks, no bait, no bass. Then you find that one spot where they are completely ganged up and you can see the mayhem going on below. From my local reservoir on Sunday. The water is pretty clear and around 25 feet deep seemed to be the right depth. 8 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted October 5, 2015 Super User Posted October 5, 2015 healthy looking fish!! 1 Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted October 5, 2015 Super User Posted October 5, 2015 Football jig? Just taking a geuss... I can't find that fall bite, the weather has been erradic around here and I can't put anything together, my grandpa caught a nice 5lb bass on a swim jig when me and him went fishing yesterday though. Quote
desmobob Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 Fall has been a mystery to me again this year here on southern Lake Champlain. This end of the lake is very shallow, with the only deep water being in the narrow main channel (the lake is more like a river at this end). The water is very muddy --clay silt-- and the weed growth is limited to shallow water. The bottom in about ten feet of water and deeper is just smooth mud. As the water temperature dropped through the 60's, fishing started to get tougher for me. Last week the surface temps were down to 56* and I had a couple of one-fish days. I have a very capable sonar on the boat (Garmin 93SV; love it!) and did a lot of looking around for these famous congregations of fall bass on bait, but came up empty. I motored a ways to fish the only deeper water structure I know of (mostly along rock bluffs and sloping rock ledge) and caught two dinks. Then, yesterday, I caught bass in the same places I catch them in the summer: on the outside of (what's left of) the weed line, up in the shallow weeds where there a still some remnants of lily pads, and in shallow water along rock rip-rap. What would your game plan be for this kind of lake? Tight lines, Bob Quote
Turtle135 Posted October 6, 2015 Author Posted October 6, 2015 Football jig? Just taking a geuss... I can't find that fall bite, the weather has been erradic around here and I can't put anything together, my grandpa caught a nice 5lb bass on a swim jig when me and him went fishing yesterday though. My first attempt to get to those bass was with a football jig but with the crazy wind we had this weekend (and fishing from a kayak) that was not a good option, I needed something to knife down to these fish quickly before the wind accelerated me right off the spot. My solution was a 5" soft plastic stick bait on a pegged 3/16th ounce brass bullet sinker. As I mentioned, the water is extremely clear in this lake so this is a visual sight only target for the bass. No built in vibration to help the bass find the worm. On the other hand this lake does get a lot of fishing pressure and this presentation has zero "negative clues" to it. I would allow the stick worm to fall all the way to the bottom then I would swim it along allowing it to frequently drop back to bottom. I believe It worked for two reasons. First, even if a gust of wind would blow me ten feet backwards that worm gliding along the bottom still represented an easy meal to those bass. Second, they were in an aggressive mood. Probably a lot of lures put in front of their face would get bit. 1 Quote
Turtle135 Posted October 6, 2015 Author Posted October 6, 2015 Fall has been a mystery to me again this year here on southern Lake Champlain. This end of the lake is very shallow, with the only deep water being in the narrow main channel (the lake is more like a river at this end). The water is very muddy --clay silt-- and the weed growth is limited to shallow water. The bottom in about ten feet of water and deeper is just smooth mud. As the water temperature dropped through the 60's, fishing started to get tougher for me. Last week the surface temps were down to 56* and I had a couple of one-fish days. I have a very capable sonar on the boat (Garmin 93SV; love it!) and did a lot of looking around for these famous congregations of fall bass on bait, but came up empty. I motored a ways to fish the only deeper water structure I know of (mostly along rock bluffs and sloping rock ledge) and caught two dinks. Then, yesterday, I caught bass in the same places I catch them in the summer: on the outside of (what's left of) the weed line, up in the shallow weeds where there a still some remnants of lily pads, and in shallow water along rock rip-rap. What would your game plan be for this kind of lake? Tight lines, Bob That sounds diametrically opposite to the type of water I was on yesterday. The only thing I fish that sounds close to that is heavily weeded sections of the Tidal Potomac River. With the water temperatures down in the 50 degree range I would be dealing with a lot of dead weeds that would be removing oxygen from the water due to decay. When that happens the bass move away and will gang up on hard cover items. I would be pitching black and blue jigs into and around that cover. Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted October 6, 2015 Super User Posted October 6, 2015 Nice Fatties ~ Congrats A-Jay Quote
Super User bowhunter63 Posted October 6, 2015 Super User Posted October 6, 2015 Beautys there,Love the fall bite. Quote
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