 Welcome back fishing freaks and all that enjoy the outdoors. I'm LFG, we're back talking about some fall fishing today. The leaves are falling, the animals are scooting around in the forest, and if you're not in a deer blind, you need to be out there fishing. I sometimes like to refer to fall as the forgotten fishing types, because there's not nearly as many people out there fishing, but should be, because when that water tip starts dropping, they start feeding. We're going to be talking about fall tactics today, and I'm going to take you out on the water. Today's video is brought to you by Carl's Baton Tackle. Hey there, LFG. Yeah, that guy. Even though Carl looks like a little gnome, and I'm not sure I've ever really seen him catch fish ever, he is surrounded by some pretty smart people that love to fish. Carl's Baton Tackle is the newest online destination to go get your tackle needs, wants, and it's created by the Mr. Tacklebox team, so you know it's good. 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But if you want to go ahead and get early access right now. Thank you Carl for hooking up the fish and freaks with a little bit about early discount. Now let's talk about some fall transition fishing. I'm about to hook the boat up. We're going to head out on the water. I want to explain to you the scenarios that happened in the fall. If you like fishing shallow, you're in luck. If you like fishing deep, vertically, you're in luck. Both of those things are fun. I got to admit I love to chase deep schooling fish. And then the shallow fishing, you got bass chasing bluegill. Oh gosh, the frog fishing could be phenomenal. I was out with LunkersTV and some of the Guggen team here where we're fishing shallow reeds and pad stems. But what we saw and what you're going to see if you fish in the fall is random fish coming up, boiling at the surface, shad balls, you might see birds out in the middle. Those are indicators that bass are out there schooled up on balls of bait and they're attacking them underneath. And you can go out there and you can chase those fish. It does require you to read some electronics. And if you look at here, you can see the bait balls, they're pretty tight and then the bass are underneath them or behind them and just kind of going around them and corralling them and every once in a while they'll blast one. Jigging spoons, flutter spoons, blade baits, those are all really effective at vertical jigging or casting. If they're coming up to the surface, you can hit them with top waters like walking baits and lipless crank baits. But then if you want to get down and dirty with them in the shallows, flipping gets good. Whenever that water gets under 70 degrees, fish push up into that shallow cover, frog in, flipping, moving baits like spinner baits and chatter baits in shallow cover, you're going to see some shad left up in there. Bluegill are going to be up in there. They don't leave that shallow cover. It's both things. It's whatever you want to do. Beautiful fat fish to be caught in the fall. I'm going to take advantage of it. Now I'm about to get out to a flooded lake that I haven't checked out in a while and see what the fish are doing. So let's get out there. Dear goodness. I don't recall ever seeing the lake this flooded. Looks like we're going to have to mount up, find ourselves another body of water, y'all. It's adventure time. And a new lake. Another gate closed. What's the fisherman to do here? Obviously high enough to where they think it's dangerous in closing these gates. Yeah, that water's not supposed to be there. I'm going to go to another lake because already I called up there. I know the ramp's open and I know there's grass in there and they have a spiel way on the lake that keeps it level if it gets too high. Dear goodness. I am ready. I am ready personally to catch a fish. I'm just trying to cross the school of fish. Got on this ledge. I want to see what they are. I don't know if they're white bass or... I don't know what all they have in this lake. Oh, I just got one. Oh, yeah, I did. Okay, they do have white bass in here. I am the white bass king. You're just lucky, sir, that not a eating day. I already have some meat in the freezer. The bass that are offshore, three o'clock, magic number. Three o'clock. If you find some offshore fish, they're not biting. Wait till three. Go back there. Let's go find some shallow veg and see if we can chop this salad up. This lake has also got some rock so I am going to try a little square bill unit as well. And this is one of the baits that came from Carl's. They have just upped their selections. I'm going to have to do a little flipping as well. I just can't resist. We've got to get in there with the frog at this moment. Okay, we are just loaded. Loaded with shallow cover. Got me a cracking craw, ready to go for some flipping. Some 20-pound fluoro. Fish, you just got to speak to me. You just got to tell me how you want it. I'm going to give it to you that way. If I can go deep, I can go shallow. I can play ball however you want to. Flooding has just got this grass looking prime. It's starting to die off. It's not as thick where you can get a lure in there. Kind of open close to the bottom, I would assume. Swimming with it. It took my dad on pincers. Right on the edge. That was a good bite too. Switch up colors a little bit. Hit it on the swim up, grabbed it by the pincers and I thought he had it. He was swimming. There are some bites right there on the main length point that you just know it's going to be a dandy. Oh, he's got it. Got him. Oh, he's tiny. Tiny, tiny. Right where you're supposed to be, but you are not the right size, my friend. Sorry to hit you so hard with that hook set. If you were anything like the last one, I needed to hit you hard. Okay, first bass bite. Came on the crack and crawl. And another small one. Right there in that same area just a little bit off. It looks like there was a small school. I just turned off the GoPro and then looked it down at the graph. I saw there was a little piece of structure down there. It looked like it had a few fish on it. One good one. That was definitely not it. This could be the move here in the dirty one. This is not what I was picturing for Overcast Day. Doesn't mean you can't dangle them on Overcast Days, but I typically like to chunk and wind all three bites so far though have been in like five to seven feet of water where the old lake line is. So nothing up in the flooded new stuff yet. Just had another bite on the other side of this dock. Felt small. Felt small like that last one. Got all these great factors that look like bass. I think I even smell one up under here. He's just got it. He's bit it. Oh my gosh. Are you serious? Let it go. Tattooed it and let it go. Sometimes you just got to take a second. Take it all in. Enjoy the fall colors. Wearing a flannel. Some sip. Some sip. Some hot coffee. Some good sneeze. Got some free range freedom roast in here. Oh, that's perfect. Got some Eddie Ray's deer sausage. Deer sticks, jalapeno cheddar with an apple. OSG approved. Life is pretty good. I feel like my chi is good now and I'm going to catch a big fish. And this is why I love fall fishing. I'm the only boat out here. I just get to enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. And I can scream as loud as I want to. I'll be like, hey look everybody, they're over here. And ain't nobody going to come over there. Because it's just me. So far catching two little ones and a white bass probably isn't convincing you to get out there. So I need to get back on that trolling motor and I need to catch a mondo. Oh, there's a decent one. Oh, he just had it. Good. Yeah, baby. Just caught him an easy hook set on him. Look at that fat, beautiful fish right there. Oh, that cracking crawl down deep. A little flipping hook doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Woo. Okay, you beautiful creature. Go back to doing what you do. I love you. That was a tasty one. All that cracking crawl. I pitched it in there under the dock and it just started swimming and the fish hung on to it really, really good. Go close to the main part of the lake right here. It's got a lot of color though, and they have a really hard bottom. I can see the rocks that come out. I can feel it. Dark colored plastic throwing Bama bug right there. So dark water, dark colors, overcast. That's what it is. I'm going to get back to fishing docks. That's the obvious thing to do. And then if anything else comes up, I will give her a dangle. These conditions are making me want to put on a jig too. A little PB and J action here. This little catch-cove flipping jig here. Jigs, like a 3-8 ounce jig. Just slide that little thing in there of that shorter rod. That's what I love about it. So when I'm like dedicating myself to dock fishing, I usually go for a little shorter rod. So you can roll cast it up under there easily. You just have more accuracy, more control. Usually you're pretty close to the fish when you're setting the hook dock fishing. So you don't need to just throw the hammer down. Oh, that's a nectar, nectar, nectar. Come on, baby. Oh, broke it. Broke my line. Oh, I can still see my line. Always taking off with it. No, no, no. Where's my line? I had a bad spot in it. Tell you guys the story on that one. We were doing this golf course fishing. Rob comes over and takes his knife, cuts my line. Every time I line and cast it out. Anyways, I'm trying to catch my line right now. The fish just took that jig and it was gone. I gotta thank Lunkers TV for that one. You guys do me a favor and go over to Rob's channel and tell him how much I enjoyed losing that fish. Oh, God, that fish came off. Took my worm. Son of a... biscuit right up there in that grass. What happens on those situations, you lose those fish. They bite it real good and you're like, man, how can I miss that fish? They grab the end of the plastic. They're grabbing the pinchers and then they take it off the hook like this. When they grab it, they grab it real hard. So when you set the hook, you're basically just ripping that right out of there. There he is. Got him. That's a good one. Oh, where's he going? Oh, how big are you, sir? Oh, yeah, that's a big one. That's a big one. Oh, yeah. Get up in here. Baby. That just makes the day golden right there. Look at that crack and crawl. Thumped it so good. Right in the same exact spot that I've been catching them all day. I hate to see the last one. I broke off. It's pushing five pounds. We're going to let you go now. Oh, I love bass so much. Love the way they smell. Love the way they look. Perfect environment right here. Go back to your dock. Eat some more bluegill. Get fat for the winter and I'll see you next year, hopefully on a bed. Oh, got to. Love it, baby. How amazing is that, y'all? Screaming hawk, flying overhead, catching a nice four and a half, five pounder on a bait that you spent a long time developing with friends. It's beautiful, man. I love the outdoors. I love it so much. I love bass fishing so much. I needed that fish. I have really caught some big fish in the month of November on spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, big worms, and then jigs and crawls around docks. Brush piles when I start hunkering down into that structure. I'm going to try to catch another one, but that sure was fun, y'all. What a moment. Love it. It's to gram-worthy. You bet ya. Gotta love the great outdoors, man. Should be one in this stuff. This grass that's really close to deep water. It's prime. It's a prime looking spot. This right here, there's a log. Oh, one's got it. Got it. Yeah. Called it. Gotta love it when you can call it. There might actually be another one right there. It said, uh, there's a log that comes out, and then that grass is coming out, and it's just close to deep water. When you dangle hard for a long time, and you just get a bite gradually, you start really studying, why did I get that bite? It's just there. And then you replicate, and replicate, and it just becomes a pattern, and then you just kind of know, like, all right. I don't even need to fish over here in this water. I just need to focus on this. This cover, this depth, just put it right there. Another tasty lay down in perfect depth. Let's put it between the cracks right there and see what happens. Oh. You should be there. There's another branch over here. Wow. I'm honestly shocked I did not get... Oh, there he is. About to sink. I was about to say I would be shocked if there wasn't a bass on there. He was just out a little bit deeper on the end. You know what? That's not a big one. But I think I'm going to end the day there. I've just, I've really enjoyed getting able to dial in flipping this shallow cover with the crack and crawl and just go to work. You know, this has been nice. This has been really nice. Our journey ends here today, Fish and Freaks. Very similar pattern as to what I saw on the other lake as you first. I didn't quite see the schooling activity out there as it did at the other lake, but same thing with shallow vegetation around five feet and this lake had docks. It also had some laydowns and the fish were on that shallow cover. And man, targeting shallow cover with jigs and flipping baits. Mmm. It is fun. It is a lot of fun. It takes some focus to make those right casts in the piece of cover, but when you do bite and you feel that thump and you set the hook. Oh! Man, there's nothing quite like it. Hit the like button for solid dumps and solid fish. Hit the like button for fall fishing. Explain. Hit the like button for daggum hawks flying over, screaming. Think it's a sign of goodness. 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