Some November Tactics that Catch Fish Before the month ends I thought I would spend a little time describing some of the various successful tactics that catch bass in November and early December. The key to this period is to remember that the bass are feeding in the extreme shallow water. When you combine shallow water techniques with grass you start to limit the type of fishing presentations that will work effectively in the remaining grass. The first presentation to me is to find grass that has reseeded down from the top of the water 6 to 10 inches; this allows you to pull small short arm spinner baits over the grass. The good thing about short arm spinner baits is the pure fact that the blades do not gather the grass up on the blades nearly as much as a long arm spinner bait do. The flash added with slight deflection off of the grass causes strikes and some really good fish can be caught this way! Next is to find the fish in the middle part of the sunny type days we have in November. This time of day generally moves the bass a little deeper away from the sunlight and it is an ideal time to work rattle baits in 6 to 10 feet of water over short grass. You probably can’t fish anything heavier than ½ oz. but that is all you need to hook up with some good fish. As in the spring that yo-yoing motion will get the strikes so drop it and stop it, just a little quicker so you’re not hanging the grass. A good way not to hang the grass is to use a non stretch line as it will pull through the grass and keep moving. Lastly if you’re a jig fisherman, lay downs, boat houses and rip-rap are just loaded with shallow bass feeding before the winter pushes in. Pitch that jig in and around cover, work the corners and pylons around the boat houses very methodically and you can find a big stringer of fish. Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service www.fishlakeguntersvilleguideservice.com Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 256 759 2270 Captain Mike Gerry
Home Articles Miss. & Wisconsin Rivers Mississippi River Fishing Report 8/24/09
Mississippi River Fishing Report 8/24/09
Written by Capt. John Bomkamp   
Monday, 24 August 2009 12:43
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Late report from Thursday to Sunday. Fished Thursday evening with Todd and Dan for a late afternoon/evening bass and northern trip. The weather was weird that day with beautiful sunny skies one minute and thunder storms and rain the next. The guys had never fished heavy weeds and slop before. They got three nice largemouths on frogs. Nothing beats a good blow-up! We fished some main channel stuff, but it was pretty slow. Did manage a couple of walleyes and a some smallies. Ended up with some nice fish and a good day on water. Friday and Saturday I prefished for the Grant County Bass Club 4 Man tournament which was held out of Prairie du Chien on Sunday. The weather forecast called for scattered showers for the day. Just after daylight it started raining and never stopped all morning! The bite was tough that day. Saturday we fished the south end of Pool 9. Had a blast that day boating a mixed bag of smallmouth, largemouth, walleye, northern, white bass, channel cat and mud cat. Enough for a nice fish fry! Most of the fish came on weedlines fishing a jig, texas rigged soft plastics, and rattletraps. Found a couple of good schools a bass for the tourney. Sunday morning we awoke to heavy fog. The tournament was supposed to take off at 6:00, but we didn’t get off until 8:00, and then it was still foggy. We idled for probably an hour before it broke enough to make our run up to Pool 9. We finally started fishing around 10:00. Our team consisted of myself, my Grandson Will, his Dad Heath, and Heath’s Dad, Denny. We ended up with our limit of 12 fish that weighed in at just over 32 pounds, good enough for first place in the 80 plus boat field. Will , (7 years old) caught the first fish of the day that was 3 ½ pounds! He caught it on a scum frog in heavy pads and slop. I know a lot of grown men that can’t get them out of that stuff! Pretty happy little boy! We had mixed bag of largemouths and smallmouths. 2 of the smallmouths were 3 pounders. These were caught on swim jigs. The river seems to be changing everyday now. Weeds are starting to die off, water temps are slowly falling, and the days are getting shorter. Fall is about here, which means the best fishing of the year in my opinion!

 Capt. John Bomkamp
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