One-Two Combo for Catching Fall Bass

 

 

Finding fish is the hard part. Once a school is located with moving baits and the action slows, switch to soft plastics and you'll likely catch more fish from the same area, possibly a lot more. My favorite soft plastic rigs for the fall are wacky rigs and weightless soft plastic jerkbaits. For the wacky rig, I use Hyper Finesse Worms and Whack'n Worms in shades of watermelon on sunny days and June bug or green pumpkin colored ones on cloudy days, rigged on 12 lb FluoroHybrid Pro line. The segmented tails on these new baits really make them quiver with every twitch of the rod. For bigger fish, I rig up a Zig Zag on my wacky rig and this larger bait will entice some big bass in the fall. Another technique that excels is soft plastic jerkbaits like Magic Shads and Live Magic Shads, rigged weightless Texas style. Some days the bass will chase these as they are steadily twitched over the grass, while other times you'll do best by twitching your bait a couple times and then letting it fall to the bottom. Long casts are important with these baits as well, so I use a 7'3" Dobyns 734C to launch them way out there & still have enough backbone to set the hook. Finally, for lunker bass during the fall, pitch the brand new MPack jig from Lake Fork Trophy Lures, with its beefy hook and sleek head, to the heaviest cover you can find in the areas you've already caught fish. I like black/blue colored jigs on cloudy days and watermelon jigs on sunny days, trimmed with a matching Lake Fork Craw trailer, rigged on tough 25 lb FluoroHybrid Pro line.

To land a haymaker on the bass this fall, try the horizontal-vertical combo and you might become the bass heavyweight champ. If I can be of assistance, please contact me at 214-683-9572 or e-mail me through my website, www.LakeForkGuideTrips.com.