In the Fall , a buzz bait can potentially be a good all day bite - What are your preferences :

 

• Traditional Buzz Bait (with skirt) or instead using a Buzz Toad ?
• White , White / Chartreuse , Black or another color ?
• Size : 3/8th oz. (standard retrieve)  , 1/2 oz. (faster retrieve) , 1/4oz. or 1/8th oz.  (for a slower retrieve) ?

 

*In clear water South Eastern  reservoirs , bass are chasing shad / bait fish  in the fall to feed up for winter ... What are your choices and experiences for the above ?

I like a 1/2 ounce lure with either a skirt or a soft swim bait .Color , I do prefer a shad color .

Lately white has been superior to black.  Method... chunk and wind as close to cover as possible.

I use a 3/8 all the time always just a skirt. I'm a black skirt guy spring and summer to replicate gills. Still am during low light periods and rainy days during fall but for the rest of the time in fall im a white skirt guy. Gotta match those shad!...I guess or whatever. I have a pond near me with no shad and white produces better there in fall...so may not always be a shad deal...maybe it has more to do with sun angle and or water color? Kinda like how red works well in spring everybody says it stands out in dirty spring water and it replicates a crawfish. My crawfish are almost always black or dark green with blue highlights on the claws. That's not even close to red. Something else going on there.

This is what I use most of the time . Hand poured 1/2 ounce with a swim bait super glued on . I will add a trailer hook . I havent used this rage bait yet , before it was a Money minnow but I used them up . With a swim bait on , it cast further and the added drag allows it to be retrieved slower . 

1/2 oz black on black skirted.

I don't change anything for fall compared to the rest of the year. I use white or black, 1/2 or 3/4 ounce. Usually use a skirted bait but I'll mix in a buzz toad as well.

7 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I use a 3/8 all the time always just a skirt. I'm a black skirt guy spring and summer to replicate gills. Still am during low light periods and rainy days during fall but for the rest of the time in fall im a white skirt guy. Gotta match those shad!...I guess or whatever. I have a pond near me with no shad and white produces better there in fall...so may not always be a shad deal...maybe it has more to do with sun angle and or water color? Kinda like how red works well in spring everybody says it stands out in dirty spring water and it replicates a crawfish. My crawfish are almost always black or dark green with blue highlights on the claws. That's not even close to red. Something else going on there.

*I hear that !  ... I think white / black color has more to do with sky conditions and the sun's angle when a bass looks up at a buzzbait . A toad trailer (or other soft plastic trailer) can keep a buzzbait up more and allow you to reel a little slower than you can with a skirt trailer on alone.

19 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I don't change anything for fall compared to the rest of the year. I use white or black, 1/2 or 3/4 ounce. Usually use a skirted bait but I'll mix in a buzz toad as well.

*Those are on the heavier side for a buzzbait - I think I have one 1/2 oz. buzzbait and that has a toad trailer on it ... I'll have to look at venturing beyond my typical 3/8th oz. buzzbait.

5 minutes ago, ChrisD46 said:

*I hear that !  ... I think white / black color has more to do with sky conditions and the sun's angle when a bass looks up at a buzzbait . A toad trailer (or other soft plastic trailer) can keep a buzzbait up more and allow you to reel a little slower than you can with a skirt trailer on alone.

*Those are on the heavier side for a buzzbait - I think I have one 1/2 oz. buzzbait and that has a toad trailer on it ... I'll have to look at venturing beyond my typical 3/8th oz. buzzbait.

I've heard that about toads...my problem is the times I've tried it even being careful to thread it on straight the bait didn't run right.

10 minutes ago, ChrisD46 said:

*Those are on the heavier side for a buzzbait - I think I have one 1/2 oz. buzzbait and that has a toad trailer on it ... I'll have to look at venturing beyond my typical 3/8th oz. buzzbait.

The 3/4oz Crock-o-Gator has a gigantic prop but compact body. Churns up a bunch of water like a big injured baitfish on the surface. The heavy, compact body counteracts the huge blade on the cast too.