Bass behavior on warm fall days

[Boomstick]

Curious, do bass tend to be less active during a warm fall day?

 

I was talking with someone who is convinced of this after mentioning I got skunked yesterday after getting a few good ones a couple weeks ago. Not really something I ever really know much about so I’m wondering what everyone thoughts on this is

[Swamp Girl]

I've have success this fall fishing only the warmer days. I caught 44 bass one evening and caught a couple six-pound-plus bass, as well as several outings with more than one four-pounder.

[WRB]

Warm fall days, especially a few consecutive days is ideal conditions imo. Finding the bass is the key and realizing the bite is more sporadic means grinding it out.

The full moon was a few days back now should be good.

Tom 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

My experience has been the fish don't bite well during warm fronts during the Fall to Winter transition.    However, once Winter temps come, the most electric fishing comes during the warming trends in Winter.    

It's been nothing but beautiful 80d+ days now for a week, the bite has been terrible for the most part outside of few small feeding windows.  

 

Fall down here sucks.    When somebody figures out the correlation between success and the weather, they'll essentially have solved Cold Fusion.  

[gim]

My experience in the north has been that overnight temps play a role in the fall.  Over night lows around freezing or below when there is a clear, calm sky delay the bite in the morning.  On those days, it's better to start later in the day after it has warmed up.

 

When there are clouds over night, it acts as an insulator and the over night low temps are not near as cold.  Then it's worth starting right away in the morning.

[Swamp Girl]

36 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 On those days, it's better to start later in the day after it has warmed up.

 

@PhishLI believes this too.

[einscodek]

2 hours ago, Boomstick said:

Curious, do bass tend to be less active during a warm fall day?

 

I was talking with someone who is convinced of this after mentioning I got skunked yesterday after getting a few good ones a couple weeks ago. Not really something I ever really know much about so I’m wondering what everyone thoughts on this is

Water temps down = less active so thats Fall but all things equal bass should be more active on a warm day esp in the shallows but theres many more factors to a successful day fishing in Fall ie.. locating the fish.. its not winter, some strikes are slow but couple strikes I had still tried to take the rod out of my hands so fish are still eating and temperamental about it at times.

[Zcoker]

Takes time for the water temps to catch up with a warm day. Bass still think it's freezing out lol 

[Boomstick]

I’d be willing to bet that the rain and winds earlier had an effect. Still surprised I got nothing after it cleared up bit who knows maybe the bass moved away from the weedline finally.

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

morning.  On those days, it's better to start later in the day after it has warmed up.

That’s what I usually do as well. In my case some rain and wind came through when it was still warm but nothing after it cleared up.

 

Still a beautiful almost November day and fun trying.

[LrgmouthShad]

I’m not sure about fall. Winter I say with certainty I do better on really cold days. I can’t make sense of it

[Pat Brown]

I generally look for stable conditions that stimulate baitfish activity.  The bass get very very active but also they are very focused and have LOTS of food around.  This is why reaction baits tend to do better in the fall but finding active fish is a timing thing and can take a lot of grinding on a big lake.