September

[DitchPanda]

I'm much more of an October guy...bass are eating...leaves are pretty...and Halloween is my favorite day of the year.

[Bankbeater]

Around here September is an extension of August.

[GreenPig]

September according to years of past pics is pretty lean round here. Our water temp today was 87.9. We have to cover alot of water to catch a few. At 82 it gets good and that's October for us.

[A-Jay]

The fishing can be epic here in September for both numbers & size of brown bass.

Got my PB in September.

Have to find the bait and then bass will usually be close.

Could be 3 feet could be 30 feet.

Can make for a tricky and somewhat frustration day of searching. 

And the weather is like fools gold.

September starts out all warm & summer like and in just a matter of a few days it goes straight to nasty.

Sort of like Late April & early May, freezing cold mornings and then hot Azz afternoons.

So I can either be comfortable early & sweating later,

or cold early and comfortable later.

Seems there is no middle ground.

But there's no denying that the horizontal moving bait action can be worth it all either way. 

Gotta go every chance I get at this point.

It winds down fast.

For reference my surface temps this morning were mid 60's already. 

A-Jay

 

 

 

 

[Munkin]

September depends on the temperature which varies year to year.  It goes from topwater to spinnerbaits then jerkbaits for me. 

 

Allen 

[Bluebasser86]

15 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I'm much more of an October guy...bass are eating...leaves are pretty...and Halloween is my favorite day of the year.

I don't care about the pretty leaves, but October is night and day different from September. Water temps are really dropping and the bass all move shallow and start eating. It's pretty much pick your favorite moving bait and cover some water type of fishing. 

[Spankey]

On 9/1/2022 at 2:47 PM, Mobasser said:

Looking at our long term forecast it looks like September will be a lot like August here. Hot and muggy. Around October 1rst it drops to around 70 to 75 daytime highs. That's more like it

Where I am here in Penna. it might not be as bad as August but summer looks to remain here looking at long term also. I look forward to Columbus Day. History of nice fish at that time, than the shutdown begins. Wish we had a true fall like years ago. A fall transition would be great. 

[ironbjorn]

September... September... 

 

Oh, that thing that used to be like October is now.

 

Fun fact to go with what we're experiencing: In the 1970s Vancouver Island had 170 glaciers. Today there are 5.

 

Pray for your Y2K+ babies.

[DogBone_384]

On 9/1/2022 at 8:20 PM, A-Jay said:

For reference my surface temps this morning were mid 60's already. 

 

I fished Mashpee-Wakeby on  Cape Cod twice last week.  It's 70' at its deepest  and water temps were 78.x - 80.x.  I won't see the mid 60's until October.

 

Luckily, Cape Cod stays warmer all winter and usually doesn't freeze like the rest of New England so I get to hunt SMB year round.

 

 

[Cgolf]

I have learned that a rapid warm up one day to the next shuts fish down harder in September than multiple cold fronts in a week during the summer. That September trip was a tough learning curve but figured it out on the last morning so left with a small victory of knowledge gained. 

[casts_by_fly]

On 9/3/2022 at 8:15 AM, DogBone_384 said:

 

Luckily, Cape Cod stays warmer all winter and usually doesn't freeze like the rest of New England so I get to hunt SMB year round.

you don’t say…. What does your water temp go down to in winter?  Our current water is the same as yours around 78. But we freeze solid in winter. 

[Revival]

It’s September and we are still getting heat warnings.  It’s been miserable.

[DogBone_384]

4 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

you don’t say…. What does your water temp go down to in winter?

Cape Cod waters get to the mid-high 30’s at their lowest and hover around 40 during winter.

[casts_by_fly]

4 hours ago, DogBone_384 said:

Cape Cod waters get to the mid-high 30’s at their lowest and hover around 40 during winter.

 

 

Hmm.  That's a little cold for my blood I think.  I fished one of the big reservoirs here this past winter and the water was 36-38.  If I were in a big dry boat maybe, but in a kayak it got a little cold with the spray and wind.  Then again, my PB smallie was in 39 degree water so there's that..

[TnRiver46]

I live in the land of river smallies so September is awesome. One of my favorites 

[uglyasheck]

 

I just want the fish to bite no matter what month it is.