Outside of spring, there's no better time to target smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass than the fall. As the summer heat fades away and the first few cool nights are ushered in, water temps ...

When the first cool breeze of fall cuts across the lake, and the leaves start to drop, you can almost feel the bass waking up. After a long summer of sluggish days spent hugging deeper water, fall is ...

It starts without warning. While fishing down the shoreline for bass on a glorious autumn day, the water behind you suddenly erupts in chaos. Huge schools of baitfish, with nowhere to flee, leap from ...

In the valley just before dawn the town lights glitter in indigo shadow while the sky begins to fire from the rising sun. I like to leave the house then, though I know the settled clouds of autumn ...

Autumn’s cooling water temperatures trigger movement in gamefish, including largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and walleyes. As temperatures drop, these species often relate to steeper-breaking areas.

Besides spring, the fall is when big fish really show themselves. Depending on the latitudes you fish, bass are gorging themselves for the long - or short - cold weather season ahead. It's the time of ...