Slow Down After A Weather Front

[Mike Worley]

The fishing is pretty normal for this time of year. Water temp is pretty much the same from 0'-50'. On a cloudy day you might find fish at 30' if the next day is clear you might try 40'. Wednesday I had a tough day trying to catch walleyes, the day before which was cloudy the walleyes were biting well at 35' on crawler rigs. Wednesday morning we could only catch bass with 0 walleyes biting - not even a short- About 1:30 after trying about six different spots with spoons & crawler rigs and only catching 3 or 4 bass we put out a spread of 800 Reef Runners at 35'-40' and caught 8 - 10 walleyes with 3-4 keepers in about 2 hours. October can be a real ch allege what is left of the thermocline is very deep and the fish are moving up & down the water column. Try to find the shad, if you are not marking them in the same places they were in the day before they have probably moved off the bank to suspend over deep water and the fish will follow them. This time of year it's all about the shad, the active fish are following them into the creek arms. You will probably have to look for the fish about half way back in the creek arms on clear days and you might find them on mid-lake humps shallower on cloudy days or in the back of the creek arms in 30'. After a cold front moves though remember to really slow down your presentation if you were trolling crankbaits at 2.3-3.5 mph try 1.5-2.0. Spring & fall weather fronts really have a way of moving the fish and slowing them down.