I've found the same. I also love throwing a squarebill or shallow small body crankbait in the fall. Lots of time with rivers and small lakes, finding any sort of current breaks will stack fish up and you can catch a bunch of fish in one small area because they're sitting there just feeding up on the bait moving by in the current.
Most of the fish up here will move towards the deeper water as the weather cools down, but until then you can catch them dirt shallow around laydowns, shallow rock piles, anything that offers a current break or change in the bottom