Spinner Bait Bite in the Fall on Guntersville

Spinner Bait in the Fall on Guntersville

As the weather cools and the water temperature drops one bait that has always produced for me in the fall is a spinner bait. I realize this is not today’s modern fishing technique used for scoping, but it is a bait that offers lots of action, it ignites the bite in the fall and produces big fish. Nothing works better and is more fun than moving a spinner bait over the grass that is eroding away from the change in weather.

The grass will very quickly erode and become hidden, and bass will be looking up for food; when this happens, I like rolling a spinner bait over the grass. I like to make erratic moves with my wrist to attract reaction bites while fishing spinner baits. If you roll the bait just on top of the grass yet under the water, your wrist can function as a change of pace movement just by turning your wrist upward and flexing it back and forth as you retrieve your bait. The result of the wrist movement will cause the spinner bait to stop, drop, flutter, and catch fish from your speed changes. Change of water temperature is just around the corner, and the spinner bait bite could be just days away from turning on!

I have for many years fished a dual willow leaf spinner bait in the fall as it gives you more flash and flutters down better than a combination of Colorado blades or one of each; you can also rip it out of the grass easier and cause more reaction with dual willow leaf blades. Colorado blades add more vibration but to me flash attracts more bites during the fall than any of the other combinations of blades; visibility is so clear in the fall because of the lack of rain that the flash ignites the bite this time of year.

As the bass move shallow for the fall feeding frenzy, and the grass continues to erode, you should target fishing stump fields in the open bays and mouths of creeks. This is not only a great presentation, but it is a great fall pattern for finding big fish! spinner baits and fall fishing can change your fall fishing patterns and make you a better fisherman; its and exciting a fun way to catch bass that I promise you will enjoy.