troutspinner
Nuts & Bolts Guy
1) How long into the fall is it worthwhile to pursue LMB?
2) How deep is it worth fishing the bottom now. Once the lake turns do you fish deeper?
Until I began fly fishing two years ago I never fished water deeper than 10 or twelve feet deep and it was usually a river or stream.
I was at Frances E. W. Dam and some areas were supposedly 60'deep. Would it have been a waste to fish deep...like really deep? I did catch allot btwn surface and 10 or 15' down. But I figured there'd not be oxygen much deeper.
At least until November. I’ll be following the bait fish as they’ll be searching for oxygen and the bass will be pinning them into shallows and picking them off. According to the experts, October is the best month of the year to fish for Bass.
Depth? When the lake turns, don’t think if it as oxygen depleted, it’s just not as oxygen rich compared to the summer so they can be anywhere. I won’t change my style much and I’ll still drag a jig on structure with focus towards rocky banks that could be just a little warmer. If I can find them suspended, I’ll be fishing a hair jig off ledges at whatever depth they suspend.