Fall/winter bass movement

[riverbasser]

I've read these, along with every other topic in the sticky. Guess I need to read again. Thanks

[Catt]

12 hours ago, riverbasser said:

THEY WERE NOT IN THE CREEKS.

So either this kinda shatters some of what I believed happens in fall or it has just yet to happen on my lake.

What do y'all think?

If they are still migrating to the creeks I might have taken my vacation early.

Opinions?

Those questions ya gonna have answer yourself!

@WRB stated we have 100 yrs experience but we aint on your lake!

[scaleface]

16 hours ago, riverbasser said:

Wanted to post an update about what I saw at the lake Thursday. Was fishing down the bank of main lake about 50 yards from a decent sized cove and and had a few thousand shad schooled up around me just under the surface. It seemed they were making circles but slowly moving north up the lake. Nothing chasing or feeding. THEY WERE NOT IN THE CREEKS. So either this kinda shatters some of what I believed happens in fall or it has just yet to happen on my lake. What do y'all think? If they are still migrating to the creeks I might have taken my vacation early. Was hoping to catch the time when bass were feeding the heaviest. Opinions?

First we are in different areas . I went to   mark Twain lake yesterday and found the water pretty murky for fall , just a few inches of visibility and surface temp in the low 60's . I went to the back of a creek and found the water clearer and fished for a couple of hours . There were a lot of shad up there and I got skunked . Bass dont always go by the play book  . I went out on the main lake and muddier water and started fishing the bluffs . I cast a crankbait  in a cut and caught a bass . Caught three more in that cut so thats what I concentrated on for the final few hours. Ended up catching about twenty bass with five keepers  on a shallow diving Rapala Crankin Rap , shad pattern .

 There is undoubtedly bass in that  creek I  fished  but they just were not cooperating . I came close to being skunked but made that one lucky cast with the correct lure that steered me in the right direction . 

[lo n slo]

9 hours ago, scaleface said:

First we are in different areas . I went to   mark Twain lake yesterday and found the water pretty murky for fall , just a few inches of visibility and surface temp in the low 60's . I went to the back of a creek and found the water clearer and fished for a couple of hours . There were a lot of shad up there and I got skunked . Bass dont always go by the play book  . I went out on the main lake and muddier water and started fishing the bluffs . I cast a crankbait  in a cut and caught a bass . Caught three more in that cut so thats what I concentrated on for the final few hours. Ended up catching about twenty bass with five keepers  on a shallow diving Rapala Crankin Rap , shad pattern .

 There is undoubtedly bass in that  creek I  fished  but they just were not cooperating . I came close to being skunked but made that one lucky cast with the correct lure that steered me in the right direction . 

seen them do like that on Norman and Wylie down my way in the winter. but it was the warm discharge creeks that drew the shad in. the bass in there can get real picky. but motor out to the windward shore and you can catch them.

i'd like to mention something else for the OP. i've done good by finding the birds during the winter. tie on a bucktail or a swim bait you can throw. give it a try sometime.