Brace yourselves ladies and gents!

Looks like the smallies in your local fishery are just about ready to turn on for their fall pattern! Be prepared for followers of the fish you caught, schooled up fish on specific spots, and them crushing jerkbaits, and topwaters! I was out myself yesterday, had a few of them beginning to move and congregate outside creek mouths and chasing the fish that you have hooked. Saw a pretty cool sight yesterday where there was a smallie follower behind a largemouth!

 

Let the best time for smallies begin!

Brace yourselves ladies and gents!

Looks like the smallies in your local fishery are just about ready to turn on for their fall pattern! Be prepared for followers of the fish you caught, schooled up fish on specific spots, and them crushing jerkbaits, and topwaters! I was out myself yesterday, had a few of them beginning to move and congregate outside creek mouths and chasing the fish that you have hooked. Saw a pretty cool sight yesterday where there was a smallie follower behind a largemouth!

 

Let the best time for smallies begin!

 

Caught one yesterday out of the Grand River on a spinner. 17 incher. They're ready to go and i'm ready to catch 'em!

I am new to lake smallie fishing this year. I have been fishing the rivers for awhile, though. But I have heard in the fall they are harder to catch in certain lakes? I have also heard that even though numbers go down, the size goes up...at least in the Great Lakes.

It's already beginning all the way down in these parts.

Already well into the fall up here too.  Forecasted for 29 degrees tonight........but I'm in the Adirondacks.

 

When they follow each other, grab a 2nd rod. Here's a recent pic, the 2nd fish (left) was completely oblivious, and wrecked the tube i dropped right in front of my raft.  

 

They're already starting to chase the big shad, and shad swimbaits, around here

Went up to a cottage with a few buddies over the weekend, and boy were the smallies chasing jerkbaits!

Duo Realis Jerkbait 100 did most of my damage - but they were more than willing to bite senkos and swing impacts for my buddies as well! Here's a quick vid of the small guys I caught, and probably a 4# that I lost from not setting the drag properly