EASILY LOCATE BASS IN THE FALL! External

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As summer fades away and fall approaches more than just the water temperature changes. It’s important to know the transition because most techniques that work in the summertime will start to fail as fall rolls around the corner. Over the years we’ve used all sorts of tips and tricks that keep us successful during the summer to fall transition. It also helps to use a bait that’s known to work in any condition.
Using a stick-styled worm is the most tried and true ways to catch fish. We have a wide variety of 5-inch Fresh Worms to choose from, but we’ve recently released new 6-inch Worms that catch some trophies. Charmeleon, Rainbow TRT, Bone, Chocolate Mint, and Fire TGR are all available in 5 and 6-inch. The high-grade non-salt plastic they’re made from provides positive buoyancy and it even floats underwater!
First off, you’ll want to change up your strategies because what works in the summer is unlikely to work in the fall. For example, you might find great success fishing a honey hole all summer but notice the lack of fish as summer fades away. This is because the fish move in different patterns throughout the year. In late August and early September, the shorter duration of daylight causes the fish to act differently. The water temperature begins to cool and the bass always moves from their deeper summer spots to shallower waters. In shallow water we’ve found great success with our Scorpions.
Our Fresh Scorpions are a revolutionary new look to soft plastics. Each one has a unique and exclusive 3-axis tail design that’s engineered like no other soft plastic bait! The tail actually acts as a natural weed guard and you can rig them just like any other craw-styled bait. When rigged stand-up the Scorpion will put itself into a defensive stance that causes much more strikes. Great in any weather year-round!
In order to find the bass you must understand that there are two main patterns during the end of summer going into fall. Bass in the main body of the lake will suspend a school around shad and alewives near long points, breaks, and humps. The debth of the suspended schools will be relative to the watercolor. Normally clearer water means the schools of bait and bass will suspend deeper into the water. You’ll be able to find a good amount of bass toward the back of key feeder creeks at this time of the year. Focus on the stained water near the creeks and depths of one to four feet. All of the threadfin and gizzard shad tend to bunch up in these locations. One of our favorite baits to use is our HellaMites because they act exactly like a snack bass love to eat.
Designed to imitate a major aquatic food source, our Fresh HellaMites deliver a realistic profile of an actual insect larva. Its solid body and hyperactive ribbed tail design produces a life-like quivering action with every twitch of the rod. Additionally, its unique flat underbelly detail enables this bait to be fished as a drop shot, ned rig, neko rig, and more.
You’ll always want to remember that bass will go where the schools of bait fish go. Baitfish are constantly moving so its important to cover most of the water just to keep up with them. Its never worth wasting time working areas with no signals of forage fish. Find the bait and you’ll find the bass!
We have a wide variety of terminal tackle to choose from. Our favorite by far has to be the Owner Stand-Up Jig, but we also like to use the Owner Shakey Ultrahead in order to permanently secure baits. You can actually screw the pattened twist lock coil in for perfecting rigging every time.