When the middle of the fall comes and cold fronts hit water temps drop my favorite lures to bring out and keep hamdy will be a Livingston stick master (jerkbait) it dives up to 4 ft on the jerk and suspend have ebs technology mustad hooks I also like to use strike king caffeine tubes in a white shad pattern

One of my go-to's when the temps drop is a blk/blue Rage Space Monkey on a jighead. Worked just like a jig. Not sure why but bass up here eat that better than a jig most of the time when water drops to 55 or below.

Fishin the chrome rattle trap crank low and slooooow..... tried quite a few things, this has been my only lure thats been consistent. Water temps holdin steady @ 55+/- with sunny days being the most productive.

find some green grass if there is any left and rip a lv 500 through it. pig magnet

Anything that looks like a shad. Exept spinnerbaits, they just don't work for me .

I've had good success with crankbaits but when that's not working I switch to a slow presentation like dropshots and other finesse approaches

Really isn't a bait in the box that doesn't work at some point during the fall. Once the water temps really start to cool off a rattle bait, suspending jerkbait, and a jig are my main go to baits. 

9 times out of 10 I can get them on a suspending jerkbait, dropshot, or hair jig.

A 3/4 mag trap over the top of grass.  I work it like a jig.  Just keep it going fast enough to skim the top of the grass without getting snagged.

Keitech Easy Shiner ... slow and steady gets them for me.

_{Chrome and blue trap pumping the rod with a steady retrieve, I've caught at least twenty in the last two weeks on this, my trap has some awesome battle scars}

Here lately its been drop shot, shaky head, and senko style baits wacky rigged or texas rigged. We won the lunker in our club tournament Sunday on a weightless texas rigged senko

A suspending jerkbait by far, followed by a finesse jig with little hops.

Chrome Rat-L-Trap has been working

Pop-rs!  I caught several dozen spots yesterday using top water poppers.  I like squarebills/shallow shad-raps fishing with a slow retrieve when the water temps drop too.

 

It's too bad our temps are still above 60.   I didn't see any thing below 63 yesterday!

I don't rule anything out, BUT when the water get's into the 40's like it is now, the stuff at the top of the rotation will be a finesse jig, a small 3" or 4" bait on a drop shot, or a shaky head for slow presentations. And a lipless crank, suspending jerkbait, and a small swim bait for moving baits.

Having my line in the water

I rely on three baits when the water temps. drop into the 40's all the way until there's ice covering the surface. A Mepps in-line spinner, a suspending FatFree Shad or Norman Little N, and a white jig with a smoke colored Kalin's grub.  That Mepps Aglia is something that they rarely see, can be fished relatively slow  and it has a different vibration and flash than a bass style spinnerbait.