Well, it's officially fall bite time on my home water. According to my logs it normally happens once the water temp. drops to 68 or below. Got out today and the surface temp was down to 66 and the fish didn't disappoint. The water is clearing and the O2 leveles are up. It took me about an hour to zero in on a pattern of sorts and within the next three hours I boated over 30 fish, including a 20in. football shaped hog and three others over 18in.

You can catch some real pigs in the spring when they're full of eggs, but I'll take fall for numbers and size. Plus, they seem to fight harder. At least this beauty did.

I know, it's a poor poto, but I'm just learning how to post pics.

Both these beauties were caucht on a KVD 1.5 in a bluegill pattern as were the majority of the fish I boated today.

Nice fish, brother!

nice fish man.

Awesome man!!

some great fish

Very nice congrats!!

Sounds like you got them dialed in.

Great fish and nice job slaying them. Its definitely picking up around here too.

Papa with a Pig! Gotta love the fall, like you said. They def. fight harder because it's some of the warmest water of the entire year.

I think one of the reasons that a lot of big females are actually landed in the early spring is because their bodies are so cold, they can't jump and throw the hook.

Congrats man! Its really strange that alot of the bigger fish I see from up north have that weird sloping head thing going, due to slower growing I wonder?

NGaHB

Nice catch