Any one still fishing?

[cruiseforever]

Each year I seem to fish later into the fall. Still have a lot to learn about it. But it has become my favorite time of the year. Just wondering how late people try for Bass?

[Dylan33]

I fish for smallies thru february!

Largies until the lakes freeze over.

[Deitz Dittrich]

yup, I have chipped ice from the landing to get the boat in the water before.

[EBass]

Was out last Sat and it was great.

3 19"

1 17"

6 16"

a lot of lil guys

3 pike which 1 was nice

and a 15" walleye

Too bad my trailer and lower unit have issues or I would be out more, but I think that was the last trip for my rig until repairs are done.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Boat isnt winterized yet. Wanted to get out all weekend but just watching the trees blowing over really was demotivating me, had I had a partner talk me into it I would've gone.

[Nick Kuhn]

Sunday was pretty brutal with the wind, especially where I was in Wisconsin. When the gusts are up around 40-50mph, there's really not a lot you can do for boat control. I tried to fish the calm side of the lake but nothing was there. I'm sure with 3 straight days of howling west winds the fish were stacked on the other shore.

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

This past saturday, I was out on a TC lake from 7am-3pm. My friends and I caught a bunch of 1lbers', 2lbers, 3lbers, and (3) 4lbers. Biggest was at 4lbs 12ounces. Almost all the fish were caught on lipless cranks and KVD sexy shad at 10ft. Most bass were caught in 8-10ft deep. jigs worked really well too. Just pitch it into any cover you see.

[sicheneder]

the water temp needs to cool a little to see the bigger girls. there was still some fish out deep were they are usually in july/august.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Last time I was out about a week and half ago I found fish still on a rock point I do well on in summer but instead of being in the boulders near the tip they were closer to the shorline on an inside turn. No fish in the pads only one fish off a dock. Water was still low 60s then, what is everyone reading right now?

[ssaamm]

Smallies on the Mississippi have been very good lately on DT-6 and 7's. Shallow gravel flats or submerged trees. Water temp 47 degrees. I would think that they will go deeper now.

[TonyKay]

i threw some crankbaits for an hour and a half or so today and managed an 18" largie and a 27" walleye. the wind and mist chased me off the lake early this morning. i was reading 54 degrees in some spots at 7am this morning.

[fish2morrow]

I'm still fishing from shore in rivers and getting into the rivers with waders. About two weeks ago I was out when it was sprinkling a little out and got a 5lb small mouth bass. I didn't know that around this area that a 5lbs was worth mounting. Now I wished I would have mounted it. O well maybe I'll catch it again next year. The best part was I caught it on a top water 4 1/2 inch zara spook, which was sweet as heck. When it was coming in I thought it was a 20 + northern or a small muskie, but when that thing came in I was amazed and just couldn't believe what I had caught. Sad part was I forgot the good camera and could only take a picture of it on my crappy phone camera. Hopefully I can still catch some this weekend.

[Dan L]

I am up fishing the Brainerd area for MEA weekend. The bass were going pretty good today on spinnerbaits. Nothing else worked for me. We make a trip every year over MEA and the bass always seem to be biting.

[Duffman]

A few smallies cooperated the last few days up in the BWCA. But I can see my open water days being numbered for this year, probably another two weeks tops.

[Further North]

Sunday was pretty brutal with the wind, especially where I was in Wisconsin. When the gusts are up around 40-50mph, there's really not a lot you can do for boat control. I tried to fish the calm side of the lake but nothing was there. I'm sure with 3 straight days of howling west winds the fish were stacked on the other shore.

Here's weird for you: we chose to fish a smaller lake to stay out of the heavier wind and bigger waves...then we tried to fish the downwind side of the lake on the same theory you mention...not a a single bite.

So we tried the points where the wind was blowing waves past them and got a couple...and I sort of casually tossed a bait into calmer water further back in the bay and WHAM...fish on.

Every fish we got the rest of the day was in calm water, either right up on shore, under lily pads or under rafts of dead leaves floating on the water.

[Further North]

Last time I was out about a week and half ago I found fish still on a rock point I do well on in summer but instead of being in the boulders near the tip they were closer to the shorline on an inside turn. No fish in the pads only one fish off a dock. Water was still low 60s then, what is everyone reading right now?

57° - 60° here on Sunday.

[Nick Kuhn]

I was reading 55-57 near Cumberland.

[Hester]

This weekend is supposed to be 60 and not very windy.

I plan on fishing all day Saturday and most of Sunday.

Should be a great time out there.

Hester

[Nick Kuhn]

I'll be out. Probably won't be targeting bass except a few casts off my dock. If you can find them this time of year though, you can be rewarded quite handsomely.

[BPBOB]

I was out last weekend-Annandale area.Water temp was 54.

Caught some small northerns and a few bass drifting along.Pretty good steady action in 6-9 feet.Threw my lipless crank.

Boat put to sleep now.

[Chris519]

Water temps were 49-51 today on Cedar Lake in Faribault. Fish are shallow. Nothing huge. Just fun. Biggest was 3-6.

[CASTnBLAST]

Was out for about seven hours in the Vergas area today, a bit breezy but still great to be out this late. Landed around twenty between my boy and I. Crankbaits,spinnerbaits,jig/pig and jig/worm worked for us in the reeds/cabbage and wood less than 15 ft. Not an outstanding day but every fish is kinda special now,woulda liked to fished deeper but to dang windy. Hopefully won't be last time out.

[IBFishin2]

Was out this morning on a metro lake and caught 6 bass. Water temp were 51-52 with fish being caught around isolated weed patch in 6-10 FOW. All fish were caught on cranks. Biggest was 3.7 with a 3.3 and 4 Dinks.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Fished yesterday, what a beautiful fall day, made me keep the boat alive for at least one more week.

Fished a couple metro lakes. First lake was dead, fished 9-1 and only caught one fish and it was off a dock I stopped at on my way back to the boat launch. Switched lakes started fishing docks with jigs and a sunfish swimbaits and started catching fish right away. Every dock had 100+ sunnies under it. I guess the predators were following the sunnies because I was having good luck with bass, even had a solid muskie on for a bit and several other 'ski follows. Biggest bass was a chunky fish just shy of 20"

Tried jigs and cranks deep, 10+ fow, but only caught pike.

[Further North]

Fished this afternoon on a local river.

Caught one little pike on a clouser minnow, but it was so great out there that it doesn't matter.