who else is excited for fall fishing!?! 2024

sambrochill reply :

i know I am. I have a big fishing trip planned with my friends and members of a fishing club we made. Its going to be awesome!

who else is excited!?!?

Paul Roberts reply :

I'm headed out tomorrow to a pond with both largemouths and 20" smallies. 2nd warm day following a cold front, with towering cumulus and thundershowers expected in the afternoon. Can't get much more excited. I can see that buzzbait going down now. Maybe a jumpbait too, just for fun. And pigs in the slop too. And...

Gatorbassman reply :

Fall fishing?????

It was 94 degrees on the lake today and the humidity was 85%. I drank 2 gallons of water and caught 10 fish.

Fall will never get here it seems.

hoosierfisherman reply :

I sure am! Going backpacking in the smokies with a travel rod!

loomis spookwalker reply :

Going backpacking in the Smokies... try Lake Fontana it has nice smallmouth.

FishZen reply :

I'm with ya Sambro! Not to far away so I feel the fall chill creeping in here too. Can't wait to head down to Dale Hollow for my first deep water smallie trip with a friend.

Good luck up your way.

Muddy reply :

Every year from Late Sept to Mid Oct I catch my best bass!!!!

Sam reply :

I hope the fall brings more rain to Central Virginia so the ponds and rivers will be good for fishing.

The Pamunkey and Potomac are super in the fall and I am looking forward to some cooler water to have the fish start to move.

But, with that said, once the temperature gets below 70* it is cold to me and I hate cold weather. >

Big-O reply :

Hey Sam, I am ready for _all fishing.... ;D with Fall definitely being one of my favorite times of the year. I enjoy that there is much less fishing pressure on most lakes too.

Big O

roadwarrior reply :

It's Primetime on the Tennessee River!

8-)

simplejoe reply :

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Every year from Late Sept to Mid Oct I catch my best bass!!!!

x2 I also like it, just the simple fact it's alot cooler outside ;D

Daniel My Brother reply :

I don't want summer to end! This has easily been my best fishing year ever. I've tried more new water this year than ever...and I've targeted more species than ever.

When the LMB weren't biting, the white bass were. When the whites stopped biting, the channel cats turned it on. I've had many 100+ fish days with my fishing buddy this year. On Sunday we caught 8 species - channel cat, flatheads, blue cats, drum, white bass, largemouth, shortnose gar, and common carp...and we caught 'em in number and size on everything from inline spinners to cut bait.

I still love bass fishing and will get back on 'em in the fall, but up next is snagging season. Opening day is September 15th on many Missouri waters.

fishinfiend reply :

I can't wait!!!!! It seems like we still have two months of summer left :'(

A friend of mine says we only have two seasons:

9 months of summer and 3 months until sumer ;D

Paul Roberts reply :

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A friend of mine says we only have two seasons:
9 months of summer and 3 months until sumer

Seems the north and south are really quite different places. I've never fished in the south. Up here our transition periods are rapid and intense. I wonder if a lot of the "fall fishing" we hear about is more a northern thing -or at least more intense.

Grey Wolf reply :

Getting pumped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-HAWK- reply :

I am done with Summer fishing. I can't wait for Fall to get here. I cant buy a bite during the SUmmer.

Catt reply :

I'm totally psyched about the fall because it's followed quickly by winter which is my time of the year for bigger bass.

ring fry reply :

I am so excited. More trips to Texas and good fishing around here. Work is starting to slow down so more time to fish.

SenkoShawn reply :

fall fishing is my favorite fishing

shorefisher reply :

It was 80 degrees Sunday with the best topwater bite I've ever seen. I put everything else away but my poppers, spooks, and buzzbaits and had a great time. Then a cold front came in that night and it's been low 60's ever since. I fished both Mon. (1 dink) and then Tues. evening and I couldn't even get a single bite. First time skunked at my favorite pond.

You can smell the fall coming. I'm hoping by the weekend that the fish have adjusted and the bite picks up again.

MbBass reply :

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

thetr20one reply :

Can't wait!! I often fish well into November. I see more duck hunters than bass fishermen!!!

sambrochill reply :

Well its great to see that everyone's excited!

I'm actually heading out tomorrow and Sunday to a few of my favorite local spots to go fishing. It's not quite fall yet but it is getting cooler.

oh and dont forget to post pics of the big ones you guys catch

FishinDaddy reply :

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Fall fishing?????
It was 94 degrees on the lake today and the humidity was 85%. I drank 2 gallons of water and caught 10 fish.

Fall will never get here it seems.

I can't wait to see the thermometer drop below 75 at sunrise....

Olebiker reply :

I just joined a bass club and will start tournament fishing in a couple of weeks. I am so pumped. It's nice to have something other than grandchildren to get excited about at my age.

Paul Roberts reply :

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 reply :

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

nebass reply :

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 reply :

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

Rich K reply :

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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 reply :

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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?

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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 reply :

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 reply :

Yep.

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

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

Raul reply :

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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 reply :

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

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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 reply :

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

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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 reply :

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 reply :

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 reply :

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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 reply :

;D ;D ;D

You a funny man!

8-)

TournyFish001 reply :

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

SPEEDBEAD. reply :

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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 reply :

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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 reply :

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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 reply :

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 reply :

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

I HATE Fall.

Why you ask?

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

flatbass reply :

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

SwimbaitDave reply :

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 reply :

<----------- 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.)

memo

yellowcard129 reply :

love topwater

371V reply :

Fall is my favorite time of the year..... The wake boats and jet skies clear off the lake. Half the fisherman start hunting and the fish start gorging for winter!

roadwarrior reply :

On Monday autumn offically begins!

8-)

-HAWK- reply :

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On Monday autumn offically begins!
8-)

Gotta love that Autmn forecast http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/tenday/33414?from=36hr_topnav_allergies

I think Autmn begins in December for us down in Florida. ;D

PoBoy reply :

I just started back to bass fishing here in GA, because the temps have started to drop into the low 80's and mid 70's. I catch the most fish in spring, hardly any in summer, and a quite a few in fall.

I was actually scouting a new pond I found yesterday and saw multiple 3lbs.+ fish in the shallows chasing big bluegills. I am gonna go out there today and see what I can do! I was thinking of using a fluke, some topwaters, and spinnerbaits. Anyone have suggestions for bass that are mainly chasing big 'gills?

SPEEDBEAD. reply :

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I just started back to bass fishing here in GA, because the temps have started to drop into the low 80's and mid 70's. I catch the most fish in spring, hardly any in summer, and a quite a few in fall.
I was actually scouting a new pond I found yesterday and saw multiple 3lbs.+ fish in the shallows chasing big bluegills. I am gonna go out there today and see what I can do! I was thinking of using a fluke, some topwaters, and spinnerbaits. Anyone have suggestions for bass that are mainly chasing big 'gills?

Take two rods with you. One ultra light to catch yourself a few bluegills, one M/H casting rod to fish the bluegills on.

If its bluegills they want, why not give it to them?

Go get 'em

roadwarrior reply :

Excellent response, Mr. Speedbead!

Sometimes the answer is right there in front of you.

8-)

PoBoy reply :

Thanks for the advice! After I made that post about ten minutes later I had that exact same thought! :-[

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