{"id":522,"date":"2010-10-31T22:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/?p=522"},"modified":"2010-10-31T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T23:00:15","slug":"fall-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/articles\/fall-fishing","title":{"rendered":"Fall Time Bass Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall Time Bass Fishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The weather starts getting cooler, the leaves start changing colours and then most people start thinking about putting the boats away and getting ready for ice fishing.\u00a0 Well, the fall time is a great time of year to catch some monster bass.\u00a0 Both small and largemouth are active and are strapping on the feed bag for the long winter months.\u00a0 One of my favourite lakes in Eastern Ontario is Big Rideau Lake.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Big Rideau Lake is part of the Rideau system which runs from Ottawa all the way to Kingston.\u00a0 The section that I\u2019m talking about in this system is between Portland and Smiths Falls.\u00a0 These past two weekends (Oct 16th<\/sup> & 23rd<\/sup>) I was out, the sun was shining, the lake was calm and the bass didn\u2019t disappoint.\u00a0 We were fishing in 25- 40 feet of water using Okuma Trio spinning reel spooled with 8 lbs P-Line fluorocarbon on 6\u20199\u201d\u201d Med light \u00a0action Okuma Concept C3 drop shot rod.\u00a0 The technique of choice is a drop shot.\u00a0 Using a Strike Zone slammer on \u00bd oz pencil weights with a 1\/0 Mustad Ultra Point Demon circle hook made it possible to catch fish like these.<\/p>\n

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3lbs Big Rideau smallie caught on a drop shot slammer<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Water temperatures are in the mid to low 50s right now making the smallmouth rather aggressive.\u00a0 In a matter of 4 hours we landed over 20 decent size smallmouth.\u00a0 The majority of the smallmouths were coming off rocks with little to no weed cover what so ever.\u00a0 As we were using our drop shots you can feel the bottom and the minute that we found weeds the bite would stop.\u00a0 We would continue around the rock hump and you can feel only the bottom the bass were there.\u00a0 Using a heavy drop shot weight, in our case \u00bd oz it helped us to keep that weight on the bottom to feel the contours of the structure we were fishing.\u00a0 The key to a successful drop shot was for the weight to have constant contact with the bottom.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t want to hop that weight along.\u00a0 We wanted to only move the bait and not the weight.\u00a0 When we were able to do that, along with being away from the weeds is when the action got hot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, smallmouths are not the only bass that are getting ready for the winter.\u00a0 Largemouth bass are feeding as well.\u00a0 This one was caught on a 4\u201d Berkley Jigger Craw on a 3\/8 oz shakey head.<\/p>\n

\"Kim<\/a>

Kim with a nice fall Big Rideau Largemouth<\/p><\/div>\n

The 3 lbs largemouth came from 20 feet of water just off a deep weed line.\u00a0 Once again finesse fishing is what used to catch this one.\u00a0 The slow subtle fall of the bait is what trigger this one the bite.\u00a0 Also, this time of year the largemouth will be cruising the shallows. \u00a0If you can find some weeds, pads etc. don\u2019t be afraid to get in there with a frog or flipping jig to try and get those largemouth out of cover.<\/p>\n

For more information about Big Rideau Lake or to book a trip, contact Peter Larmand at www.peterlarmand.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall Time Bass Fishing \u00a0 The weather starts getting cooler, the leaves start changing colours and then most people start thinking about putting the boats away and getting ready for ice fishing.\u00a0 Well, the fall time is a great time of year to catch some monster bass.\u00a0 Both small and largemouth are active and are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,42,20,43,40,41],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bass","tag-drop-shot","tag-fishing","tag-okuma","tag-smallies","tag-smallmouth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterlarmand.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}