Drastic Bait Changes You Must Have for Colder Weather

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They get you a lot of baits and stuff like that They still got their weekend door buster mega savings bundle And then they also have up to 50 off site wide for the holiday sale so really cool go over there and check out the shop carls holiday sale, but we're going to talk about our late in the year baits that we throw this time of year, you know, this is a Time of year where it's a big transition, you know august september october even in early november the fish kind of set up The same way on all the lakes around me And I use the same kind of baits four or five baits all the time You know throw a frog a lot wacky rig a jig all that type of stuff that i've been saying for a while now I swim jig some but now they are hardcore on bait And we're gonna have a lot of shad pattern stuff that we throw this time of year, you know Like I do throw the rock crawler a ton this time of year also, but i'm gonna key in today on all in on the bait One that doesn't get very much love at all, but I catch a lot of fish on it Especially on these spotted bass fisheries. They just seem to really really bite it in that depth range that it runs in This is the fat papa 55 the original see that one's got a bill It's kind of got kind of scuffed up up there throwing this one a lot this color. I really like I think this is the Lavender shad this is about the main color that I throw in this thing Oliver shad and then that olive the lavender shad and then also that olive crawl two really really good colors But this is a really good bait for whenever those fish get in those shallower little cuts on them flat points There's shallow points close to the ditches all the baits in This is a really good bait to throw in that six to nine foot range on ten pound line I can get it down to nine or ten Really really easily actually but really good bait for that six foot plus range when they're on Shad like I said and I actually would take this and I see the balls of bait Are up there in eight to ten or twelve foot I'll just reel this straight through the balls of bait and a lot of times It's just a little bit louder a little bit more vibration stands out from the shad those fish that are feeding a lot of times Will commit to this even whenever there's millions of bait around just because it does have more draw power than the bait does it gives Them something else to key in on Whenever those fish are really really aggressive so That bait and also the next i'm going to talk about is the spro little john This one has caught fish from in all 50 states i'm sure and then also catch them all times a year But just a really good crankbait for throwing in the fall. It's small Smaller, it's got a wide. It's got a thin body So it has a really tight wobble a lot this bait right here has a relatively wide wobble Not as wide as the rock crawler, but this one has a really thin Body, it's a flat side of crankbait So it has a little bit tighter action still creates a lot of thump still catch a lot of really really big ones I know of a nine eight that was caught on this bait on this exact lake last year around this time of year. So Really good bait for catching big ones. This is just one of those baits You can throw up there and foot and a half of water Just wind it slow and then get it all the way down to five or six foot deep and you can cover a lot Of water with it. You can throw in the tips of trees Everywhere close to those shad like i'm gonna throw this a little bit shallower when not really on the schools of bait But on the cover that's the closest to where all the bait is in the ditches and in the pockets everywhere There's bait hanging out i'm gonna throw this on the shallower cover really really close to it. So these two baits right here I'm, actually going to typically throw on about the same setup i'll usually throw the fat papa 55 on a seven foot three cranking rod and i'll usually throw the fat the Little john on a seven foot cranking rod just because usually fish a little shallower make a little bit more accurate cast and I like That seven footer for this bait and I want to throw a little bit further just you know Heave it out there over those points. So I put this on the seven foot three, but both of them are on a medium cranking Usually i'm actually throwing the 13 fishing fake cranking series rod that's my favorite cranking rod for any of these small little baits, but 6.5 to one gear ratio reel and it won't it ain't gonna be 6.5 anything in the six range six to one gear ratio reel 10 pound test usually i'm throwing this on if i'm throwing this bait around a lot of Jagged rock and a lot of wood. I will throw it on 12 or 14 But for the most part both these baits gonna be on 10 pound sunline shooter I've been throwing sunline sniper recently trying to get some of these baits They're a little bit harder to cast which this bait's really easy to cast but it's not a super heavy bait So it's a little bit hard to cast super far i've been using the sniper recently on this Just try to get a little bit more ease of casting In the wind and stuff like that so but for the most part it's going to be on the shooter And then obviously this time of year one of the most tried and true techniques for November december january february has got to be jerk bait. This is the spro mix stick This is actually as you can tell the 95. This is the smaller one That's what I throw a lot of times in the fall I'll throw the 95 in the fall and i'll throw the 110 or the big one in the pre-spawn i'll throw You know anytime i'm throwing this around shad in the fall the shad are typically smaller and then in the spring It seems like those fish want that bigger profile. So this is a bait that generates a lot of bites And i'll throw it in the exact same places that i was throwing these other two crank baits The only difference is sometimes you can really get them to trigger On a jerk bait and i've had days before where i'm thinking i'm cranking i'm catching nothing but spots pick up a jerk bait and start Catching largemouth which around my house That's a really big key is to catch those largemouth consistently and i've had days before where I can't catch anything on the crank bait and they'll all bite a jerk bait and then i've had days before where I catch them largemouth cranking and I get spots from the jerk bait, so they just Kind of prefer one or the other sometimes and whenever it's a little bit tougher I feel like I can generate some bites throwing the jerk bait So it's a bait that I really like to throw in the fall. Everybody likes to throw it Especially with the prevalence now of forward facing sonar. It's a really good way to Trigger fish that are kind of sitting there dormant. Not really that aggressive this bait right here will trigger them a lot of times so The rod I throw that on is a 6.8 Envy It's actually a jerk bait rod. It's a medium throw it on 10 pound sunline shooter because a lot of times I can't help it I'll jerk them i'll be jerking and then i'll set the hook Real hard whenever I feel them thump it or I jerk it kind of hard sometimes and i'll just bust them Whenever i'm jerking it so I want that rod I want that line to be shooter because it holds up to the impact a little bit better And sometimes I hit them way too hard on a jerk bait and I know I do but These hooks can handle it and that line can handle it so I throw a six foot eight jerkbait rod and then a eight to one gear ratio reel been throwing the concept c a lot recently I know I threw the inceptions all last year, but recently for this year i've been throwing the modus And i've also been throwing the concept c so really like those two reels just kind of trying stuff out, you know and during the off season, so That's my three favorite baits for the fall and also always always always Got this dude right here laying on the front deck going into the winter Don't get a lot of bites on it this time of year But whenever I do get a bite on it, usually it's going to be one that you're going to weigh in at some of these tournaments So this is a three eight ounce untamed tackle ace brown one brown chunk seven foot three medium heavy rod and then the eight to one gear ratio reel and 20 pound shooter, so I mean that's Kind of the bait that I have laying on the front deck all year round But this time of year is one that I really seem to lean on is that jig if I can get four or five bites It really seems to help my bag and then also like I said earlier in this video That rock crawler is a sleeper this time of year. It really catches them and it really catches them good So whenever they're not really on the shad Or seems like they're not really on the shad They move to crawfish a little bit later in the year that rock crawler i'll pick it up and start catching some really really good ones on it, so Uh, everything else out here right now We fish for crappie with got a couple crankbaits and a jig And that's about all you need for november and december to tell you the truth crankbait jerkbait and a jig We'll just about do everything you want to do now if the wind starts blowing you can throw a spinnerbait chatterbait Those are two really really good options for fishing in the fall caught a lot of really big ones on it It just seems like time and time again that cranking bite produces more and bigger fish in the fall So we're in the late fall early winter. So that's what i'm be throwing for the next couple of weeks So if y'all see me on the water, they'll be laying all over the front deck. Appreciate it guys. We'll see y'all