Late Fall Bass Lures ?

[ChrisD46]

Depending where you live , the top water bite for bass will begin to slow replaced with jerk baits , jigs , worms , etc. ... What are your 3 to 5 favorite late Fall lures for bass ?

[Hammer 4]

Larger swimbaits, to include glide, and wake baits. There are others, jigs would be up there also.

[scaleface]

Once the water temps drop down in the 40's the bass fishing changes . Suspending jerk baits might be the only things that work . If bass are found deep a blade bait may work . I still try my warmer weather lures , just have to fish them slow .

[FryDog62]

Suspending jerk baits, football jigs... but to cover a lot of water where the bigger bass are near the bottom moving to their deeper wintering holes, I like a 3/4-1 oz underspin with a 5 inch paddle tail. 

[DitchPanda]

Jerkbaits...finesse jigs...Ned rig...shaky head or light Texas rig with a roboworm.

[A-Jay]

Blade Bait

Lipless Rattle bait (fished like a blade bait)

Hair Jig

and

a Small heavy headed swimbait gets honorable mention.

A-Jay

 

[GetFishorDieTryin]

JB

crankbait

SH/jigworm

finesse swimbait

lipless

[ChrisD46]

Good replies  ... The bait monkey beckons !

[king fisher]

Hate to make you northern fisherman jealous, but late fall for me means buzz baits.

[Bankbeater]

Swim jigs

Lipless Crankbait

Crankbait

Plastic Worm

Senko

 

 

[AManWearingAHat]

Carolina rigged paddle tail on a 3 foot leader produced for me this afternoon in a northern pond. Dragging the bottom trying to show the deep sluggish bass an easy meal. 

[Eddie101]

5 hours ago, king fisher said:

Hate to make you northern fisherman jealous, but late fall for me means buzz baits.

I see that you're in Mexico, and throwing buzz baits? I hate you, man. 

[DitchPanda]

I'm in northwest Iowa my water temps are mid to high 40s...today I caught 4 bass between 2.5 to 5lbs and 3 nice walleye...all but one fish came on a Ned rig TRD.

[papajoe222]

The majority of time I'm fishing vertical presentations in water under 50 degrees in late fall.

Hair jigs are my #1 presentation followed closely by blade baits and jigging spoons.  If I do throw a horizontal presentation, it's a paddle tail swimbait, or a jerkbait with 10-15 second pauses and soft twitches.

[CrashVector]

Same as my summer lures:

 

Big TRD reverse ned-rigged, powerbait pit boss, shaky head powerbait finesse worm, and a green pumpkin magic colored stick bait.

[Choporoz]

Water temps here just dropped below 60.  Blade bait already working.   I will have one tied on from now to Easter.

[jcjunior]

I’ve caught plenty of bass and some good ones too on lures that “shouldn’t have worked when it was cold.” 47 degree water yielded me a 6 1/2lb fish years ago in March on a spook. Try different things, you may be surprised 

[scaleface]

15 hours ago, jcjunior said:

I’ve caught plenty of bass and some good ones too on lures that “shouldn’t have worked when it was cold.” 47 degree water yielded me a 6 1/2lb fish years ago in March on a spook. Try different things, you may be surprised 

Stay alert and opened minded . One time in early winter a friend and I were fishing and it was snowing heavily . We were being skunked  but in the back of a pocket bass had shad corralled on the surface . We caught several there on a buzzbait . It hasnt happened since .

[ironbjorn]

16 hours ago, jcjunior said:

I’ve caught plenty of bass and some good ones too on lures that “shouldn’t have worked when it was cold.” 47 degree water yielded me a 6 1/2lb fish years ago in March on a spook. Try different things, you may be surprised 

Here in Indiana the Spook has been my best bait this November.

[GoneFishingLTN]

On 11/6/2021 at 7:27 AM, A-Jay said:

Blade Bait

Lipless Rattle bait (fished like a blade bait)

Hair Jig

and

a Small heavy headed swimbait gets honorable mention.

A-Jay

 

What do you consider a heavy head anything over 1/4oz?

 

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

What do you consider a heavy head anything over 1/4oz?

 

Heads weighing more than 3/8's I guess.

I'll fish 1/4's & 3/8's down to 20 feet depending on the size of the swimbait, the rate of fall I'm looking for and the conditions. 

 Fishing Deeper than that I'm always reaching for 1/2's and even 3/4's;

especially when there's a 4.5 inch or larger swimbait involved. 

A-Jay

 

[Hook2Jaw]

I'll have a jerkbait, lipless, dropshot and a jig tied on for the rest of the year.  On days where they're biting I'll probably have a flatside crankbait and a 3XD/5XD on as well.  That's about it for me this coming winter.

[PotatoLake]

On 11/7/2021 at 7:59 AM, Choporoz said:

Water temps here just dropped below 60.  Blade bait already working.   I will have one tied on from now to Easter.

The blade bait is one of my lure categories I'm focusing on this fall/winter/spring. Can I ask what type of scenario are you looking for to know when to throw one?

[A-Jay]

5 minutes ago, PotatoLake said:

The blade bait is one of my lure categories I'm focusing on this fall/winter/spring. Can I ask what type of scenario are you looking for to know when to throw one?

 

This one can help ~ 

A-Jay

[Oklahoma Mike]

Topwater and Fall moving baits still working fine here, but for me in colder water:

 

Jerkbaits (good quality/properly tuned ones for colder water that will stay put)

Senko

Dropshot

Hair jigs

I never stop throwing a topwater, mostly out of stubbornness, so I will have a popper or maybe even a crawler tied on as well