I believe that the fall bite can offer up some rewarding days on the water regardless of the amount of baitfish that are covering the lake. It does take some thought and work and some examination of your current techniques. The first thing I would tell you is to know what is not working for you at the moment. If you can eliminate the patterns and or techniques that are not working then you have some place to start. So throw those techniques out. After they are eliminated, then examine your presentations. Have you been working the bait slow? If so, get rid of a slow presentation like the worm bite. Now that you are aware of the speed and presentation issues that are not working then try examining what you have not tried to do.
The first thing that comes to mind for me is speed. If your slow presentation has not worked then go to baits that you can work fast. Try burning a non-weighted worm over the top of scattered grass covered in active baitfish. Next go nuclear with color if traditional dark colors or colors matching the water are not working. Go to pure whites or bright colors like lime green or pink. If you have been slowly moving a spinner-bait over the top of the grass then start burning it over the grass. If your favorite spinner-bait has been one with gold colored blades, then go to chrome colors. My believe is the fish are just not reacting to some traditional things that we are all using. So you must analyze your habits, from color to speed to baits and do some different things to find a bite. Be a smart angler, analyze and change when fishing is tough!
