bite is off

americanspirit · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:26 am Post subject: bite is off

had a spot that produced well in july and august with decent size bass. now in september and october it's inundated with little fingerlings. big guys seemed to have left town.

do you guys find any trend of big bass leaving a spot if a lot of smaller baby's enter it?

stratos1966 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:13 pm Post subject:

Bass will move and use different areas of a lake as water temps change, bait moves and cover dies off.

don51 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:58 pm Post subject:

October has always been my favorite month Exclamation

This October is totally ridiculous Exclamation

This is the worse fall fishing I can ever remember. Everything just seems to be off, including the water temp. The temp. is just not where it should be for this time of the year. Maybe Nov. is going to be the new Oct. Exclamation

dr · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:39 am Post subject:

Try going for some trout. They are biting right now at Houghtons pond and spot pond. Cant go wrong with powerbait and rooster tails.
good luck

dr · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:42 am Post subject:

Try going for some trout. They are biting right now at Houghtons pond and spot pond. Cant go wrong with powerbait and rooster tails.
good luck

dr · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:42 am Post subject:

Try going for some trout. They are biting right now at Houghtons pond and spot pond. Cant go wrong with powerbait and rooster tails.
good luck

don51 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I usually go next month after the salmon stocking!

volume4130 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:55 pm Post subject:

Stratos hit it on the head...find another spot on the lake. The fish obviously haven't all left the lake, unless you've been cleaned out by people keeping fish. I fished a few times at my usual spot last week, and the bite had slowed a bit, but I still caught some good sized bass - three 3 pounders in 3 trips. This spot has a ton of lily pads that hold bass all year, now I've been having the best luck in the greenest/healthiest looking pads and not catching much of anything near the other ones. Jigs and big white spinnerbaits have been doing well for me.

Water temp was right around 60 give or take a degree.