Tell me about this fall bite!? Coosa river Birmingham AL

[Bass newb]

So I just started fishing 22 weeks ago. I took the entire month of November off to get a trolling  motor setup installed on my personal watercraft and take a break from 2-4 hours of daily fishing.

Now I just started back fishing 2 weeks ago and have been fishing probably 7 or 8 times. I've been using a rattletrap by advice of others. Jerkbait and buzzbait a little too. I haven't been out and not caught a fish yet! This is far different than the summer where I could go several days without a catch.  Is the bite that much better? Or am I finally figuring it out, or is this first two weeks back on a rattletrap for the first time  getting it done? Should I have been using a rattletrap  back in the summer? It seemed as though I couldn't  catch a fish until twilight in the summer, but now I can catch one on a rattletrap any time of day.

 

Help me make a little sense of this.

 

Thanks.

[Bass newb]

53 water temp vs 92 in the summer. 

[mbtharp1]

When the water temps start to drop like that the bass come up shallow to feed on baitfish in preparation for winter. Ratl Traps mimic shad or other baitfish, and cover a lot of water at the same time, making them an awesome fall lure.

[fishinfiend]

Love them coosa river spots

 

My uncle lives in Millbrook and we fish from Wetumpka down to Pratville. This time of year we have a lot of luck on cranks and jigs. 

[E. Guido Soda]

Shallow they are at this time of year.  Caught this Logan Martin pig from my canoe on a Strike King 4S back in November.  More recently, it's been shakey heads and  slow rolled umbrella rigs off of deeper points. 

[Nitrofreak]

Generally speaking the fall bite is much like the spring bite, the fish move and gear themselves up for a pending event, they fill themselves up for the upcoming winter, in the spring they fill themselves up for the upcoming spawn, their metabolism slows way down in the colder months so it is much like their way of storing energy to be used sparingly throughout the winter, in the spring they fill themselves to use the energy for work.

The spring and fall are much the same in aspects of being able to get by with using similar baits, just as some of the same can be applied for the winter and summer months as well. 

Good luck and be safe !!! 

[Bass newb]

Great pics guido. Why do you wear that face mask thing in the winter. I thought those were for sunburn protection.

[E. Guido Soda]

11 hours ago, Bass newb said:

Great pics guido. Why do you wear that face mask thing in the winter. I thought those were for sunburn protection.

I'm incredibly ugly.  And along with sun protection, they help me keep warm...