conditions during the fall peak can cause various transitions and effect incremental time changes to bite windows. For the most part though, giant bass remain quite active during the fall peak until water temperatures drop back into the 40’s. This transitional time causes bass to get into the first stages of winter mode and the bite slows a bit from the fall peak time frame. Late afternoons into early evenings at this time of the season are prime time bite windows to take your last giant bass of the seasons. This all depends on geographic location, but water temperatures still dictate the various activity level modes.
In areas of the country where lakes and reservoirs don’t freeze over, or power plant lakes exist that keep water temperatures at warmer levels, bass can be taken all winter during shorter bite windows. Learning all the transitions seasonally and daily, along with preparation before each instance, such as gauging weather windows, bite windows, moon phase, forage locations through each transitional time will help you stay on the largest bass on any bodies of water you target through the entire country spanning the entire season.
* Freelance outdoor writer, long time in-fisherman contributor and veteran trophy bass hunter Brett Richardson, has been chasing multi-species giant fish for more than five decades. He offers a season within season 13 title Giant Bass Series DVD collection that can be ordered by emailing [email protected]
Bass Digest/June, 2014