Fall can force you to do different things!

Try Something Different

As the summer moves on to the fall of the year, patterns change, fish locations change, baits change, and you must try something different to catch fish. The thing you can’t escape at least in the south in the fall is the mid-day heat, it can take your breath away, and this alone makes you must do something you might not have done in the past few months. This factor alone makes early fall fishing extremely tough and trying to over-come this and put together a pattern that catches fish can be tough.

To me this says try something unorthodox, meaning try a favorite winter bait of mine; that being fishing a presentation that targets suspending fish, a jerk bait. I know most of us use this bait when the water is cold but many times you get the same result in the warm water days of the fall. There is a slight difference that I try to change this time of year; meaning I go to a deeper jerk bait presentation like the SPRO McStick 95 which goes 8 to 10 ft. down the water table allowing you to fish it deeper than the traditional jerk bait presentation. There are also jerk baits that sink and allow you to count them down to even deeper depths giving you even more ability to fish suspending fish at the depth you see them on your Lowrance units. I also believe as the day moves on that bass suspend along the grass lines we have on a lake like Guntersville, so fishing that jerk bait along the many grass lines can really focus in on the bass. This is also an area that you find gobs of bait balls and presenting jerk-baits through the bait balls around the suspending fish can really prove to be rewarding.