who else is excited for fall fishing!?!

[Paul Roberts]

Ahhhhhhh.......Just what I needed. Didn't get a 20, but I did get to hear a buzzbait go down!

A mood shot Not from yesterday.

[MNGeorge]

October is by far the best month of the year for size and numbers of Mississippi River Smallmouth.  

[nebass]

Fall is definately coming, had to wear my knit cap to sleep the other night while on a fishing camping trip. Frost for the higher elevations was forcasted the other night. The leeves are changing already up here and I am sure that the water temps are goign to start dropping. Hope to get some fishing in with the kayak before it really gets too cold.

[Raul]

Uhhhhhhhh ......................what 's "fall" ?  :-?

[Rich K]

What baits seem to work the best in the fall . I hear its a blast to fish the fall cause the fish are eating everything . Do you want to scale up and use bigger baits ? Or do the hit cranks better . Thanx for the help

Anyone?

[Paul Roberts]

Uhhhhhhhh ......................what 's "fall" ? :-?

Interesting. And a good point (as usual). Seems (the intensity of) fall and a lot of spring fishing (prior to the spawn) is mostly a northern phenomenon. This isn't new knowledge in the angling lexicon; InFisherman describes this in their writings.

I don't have the experience in the south to put it into real context.

Raul, What does fall look like for you?

What baits seem to work the best in the fall . I hear its a blast to fish the fall cause the fish are eating everything . Do you want to scale up and use bigger baits ? Or do the hit cranks better . Thanx for the help

MbBass,

I guess the going thinking is that "bass go on feeding binges" (temps fall and vegetation dies back exposing prey) and prey is bigger (young fishes hatched in summer having grown up). So, more aggressive (faster) techniques can work and may put more bass in the boat. Buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, and crankbaits shine.

[Red]

i am VERY excited!  the summer fishing for me was CRAP!!  i just couldnt seem to figure them out.  it was the same last year though.  hopefully i will do as good in the fall/winter as i did last year too.  thats when i had my best fishing.

Cliff

[Hookem]

Yep.

Tired of fishing in 100 degree air and 100 water temps.

Can't wait for 75 degree air and 85 water temps.

[Raul]

Raul, What does fall look like for you?

LOTZ ! and LOTZ ! of rain !

Lakes are so muddy you can plow the water, it 's cool ( in the lower 80 's ) but humid and it rains, rains and rains sometimes on a daily basis, we may spend days without seeing the sun, and when cloud cover reduces and we can finally see the sun the temps soar into the high 90 's/low 100 's and it gets ........ pretty much like a sauna.

[Paul Roberts]

Raul wrote on: Sep 12th, 2008, 6:16pm

Uhhhhhhhh ......................what 's "fall" ? :-?

I guess you'd already answered that...but thanks for the details.

The "rainy season", eh? Interesting. Doesn't sound like the "fall" I know!

Not much of a demarcation (temperature) between seasons? What does your winter look like? Does it get much cooler? More to the point: How do your average surface temps look like over the course of the year? 78 80 95 80 78 ? Something like that?

Are your bass florida's, or do you have northerns too?

[Raul]

Raul wrote on: Sep 12th, 2008, 6:16pm

Uhhhhhhhh ......................what 's "fall" ? :-?

I guess you'd already answered that...but thanks for the details.

The "rainy season", eh? Interesting. Doesn't sound like the "fall" I know!

Not much of a demarcation (temperature) between seasons? What does your winter look like? Does it get much cooler? More to the point: How do your average surface temps look like over the course of the year? 78 80 95 80 78 ? Something like that?

Are your bass florida's, or do you have northerns too?

Just let me tell you that during my winter I still have to mow the lawn at least every two weeks or it quickly becomes a jungle  , it does get "cooler" ( air temps ) by our standards ( in the high 60 's low 70 's ) and "chilly" during the night ( 50-60 ), on very rare ocassions we hit the 40 's ( when you guys up north get them munster size snowstorms ). Water temps seldomly drop below 60° ( that only happens up in the sierras where you can fish for trout   ).

We have both, northerns, Floridas and hybrids of both subspecies, some lakes have pure Florida strain ( newer lakes ), other lakes have pure Northern strain ( older lakes ).

[Sam]

Sorry Sam,

But when the temperatures stay below 70* that is cold to me.

My fishing tournaments are over for this year and I may go out some on the beautiful Virginia lakes or rivers but for the most part, once it gets below 70* it is C-O-L-D.  ;D

[J Francho]

This is what I do in the winter.  Air temp was a balmy 35°F  

1/19/2008

Back to the topic, I am as excited to fish for bass in fall as any other time of year.

[Raul]

This is what I do in the winter. Air temp was a balmy 35°F

1/19/2008

Back to the topic, I am as excited to fish for bass in fall as any other time of year.

Keepin them in salt ?  

[roadwarrior]

;D  ;D ;D

You a funny man!

8-)

[TournyFish001]

me, me, me, in back with my hand up- I am very excited for fall bass fishing

[SPEEDBEAD.]

This is what I do in the winter. Air temp was a balmy 35°F

1/19/2008

Back to the topic, I am as excited to fish for bass in fall as any other time of year.

Keepin them in salt ?

LOL, thats what SNOW looks like Raul  

[Raul]

LOL, thats what SNOW looks like Raul

Snow ?  :-? .... ahhhhhh, you mean like crushed ice    but it don 't come out of a ice crushing machine but falls down to earth from the sky, yup I 've seen the phenomena happen once down here about 11 or 12 years ago ( about 1/64th of an inch ), the previous time such a rare event happened was 85 years before.

J/K, we do happen to see it up in the sierra when the conditions are right, last year it didn 't happen in the entire winter, I hope it does this winter, wanna take the kids and take pics of them playing in the snow.

[Paul Roberts]

Just let me tell you that during my winter I still have to mow the lawn at least every two weeks or it quickly becomes a jungle  Cheesy, it does get "cooler" ( air temps ) by our standards ( in the high 60 's low 70 's ) and "chilly" during the night ( 50-60 ), on very rare ocassions we hit the 40 's

Ahhhh..so you do have fall. It just comes in the winter.

Yeah, JF, that crushed ice fishing is great. It's when it becomes hard ice fishing that it becomes more "challenging". When the water was super-cooled (<32F -It's true!) I used to thaw my egg sacks and yarn flies in my mouth. But, I didn't have to mow the lawn!

[J Francho]

Gross Paul, LOL.  I'm not a fan of roe, unless its on my Sushi .

Raul, its not crushed ice or salt, its sugar.  A nice pic of my footprints on on beautiful beach covered in sugar.

Getting back to fall fishing, though, the salmon are in.  Headed down to the Genny for some fall fishing action.  A pic of my buddy yesterday:

[bassnleo]

I've been whackin fish since Spring.........

I HATE Fall.

Why you ask?

Means Winter is close...........

[flatbass]

Fall is my favorite time to fish. Cooler weather, no water skiers, no jet skis-and the fish are biting.

[SwimbaitDave]

Fall is my favorite time of year to fish as well. I have just added the finishing touches on some big spinnerbaits and they are ready to be put to use. Hopefully the Pickeral don't claim them all like last year.

My only complaint is that the days are too short, but that is why work gives you sick time.

Dave

[memo43]

<----------- highly excited.

i am gonna throw a ton of buzz baits an top water, until i wear out my reel.

(that way i am forced to use my baitcaster, hopefully by then i will have masterd it.)

;D

memo

[yellowcard129]

love topwater