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| Strike King Lures will have you catching more fish this FALL |
The weather has finally changed and FALL is here in Iowa. It is time to put the flip-flops away and get those hoodies out. I truly love the month of October for fishing. Bass start to feed up, panfish start to school up and larger fish like walleye and pike are very active too. October has a lot of good memories and I look forward to new ones each and every year.
With the fall season here, it does translate into a some tackle refinements. Jerkbaits become a mainstay on the boat, they work great for bass this time of year and a walleye will be fooled every once in awhile too. I also like poppers this time of year. As the water cools bass will look towards the top of the water column for their next meal. This doesn't last long but it sure is fun when you can blast some bass on topwater in October. Spinnerbaits, a bait that I do not use most of the year, becomes my favorite search bait. I begin fall with large willow leaf blades and as the water cools I will trade the large blades out for smaller blades. Lastly, a Texas-rigged Hot Rod Baits tube...this bait is good year-round.
These are my main baits this time of year, a fifth selection would be a crankbait, shallow or medium diver depending on your location. As you can tell by the bait selections, fish are starting to feed more on smaller fish than crawdads. Crawdads will soon...if not already...be making their way under some rocks in a state of dormacy for the fall and winter. Fish love crawdads, but with fewer and fewer of them roaming around all fish species will focus more on smaller fish to fee on.
If you don't have a few of these baits tied on...you better get to it and get out to your favorite body of water soon.
