Ok here is my dilema and I need some help. We have are final tournament of the season here this Sunday and I have never been able to fish well in the fall. Our lake water temp fell from 81 on Thursday to 65 on Sunday, holding around 68-70 right now. The lake has little deep cover, some cribs but not alot. No weeds or rock piles, mostly a mud bottom with the shoreline filled with boat docks and riprap. Any idaes where I should start looking or kind of baits. I've been doing well all season with a jig, a shaky head rig, and spinnerbait at times. I'm in 1st place going into the final Sunday by 4.5 pts and don't wanna lose it now!!!

I will be curious to here the input from others on this one.

I have been fishing the past four days in a lake where the surface temp had fallen from high 90's to the low 80's over the past couple of weeks. With of course high winds. I caught good fish each day.

Try spinnerbait and crankbait and you need to establish a good back up lure like a trick worm or jig or something else of your preference to followup for fish that may strike and miss.

Don't know the make up of your lake, creeks and such that run into the lake.

    This is the time of the year that bass start feeding up for the winter.   The bass are trying to gain some weight for the winter, or adding a layer of fat for the winter.

    The  primary bait source in Texas are shad.   Shad will cruise to the back of creeks in the fall due to temp changes, and or, if those temp changes don't happen like in years past, the bass still know fall is coming due to the amount of light during the daytimes is getting shorter.

   Either way, the bass know to move and chase bait.

Find where the bait goes and you'll find bass close behind them.

My lake here just dropped about 10 degrees in the past week. Was out the other day, was pulling huge bass off the shoreline usually wherever there was a bit of a drop for them to hide and ambush. Was throwing Zoom Horny Toad frogs and letting them sink just out of sight. about 15-25 inches off the shore.

Every fall in my lake I tend to find them feeding in the mornings on the shore, midday to evening a little deeper (7-10 ft), then evenings they come shallow again.

NILBasser, how did you do Sunday?

Well, I ended up fifth on Suday but still qualified for our classic and won AOY for our club. I had a good bite goin early on a buzzbait worked real slow but had a lot of short hits, should have had a limit in the boat in the first hour. After that it turned real slow but kept pluggin away and finished in a respectable place.

Congrats on AOY

I lost AOY in my club by one point >. But umm... find places where the water will be warm. Deep cover will be a very good idea. Dropshotting and throwing Cranks over humps, and one most guys don't think off. A pipe in the water that has water coming out is going to be a fish holder. And DO NOT BE AFRAID to try docks. Found Late success in a tournament flippin' a Sweet Beaver into docks. Good Luck too you!

Well here we go again, more rain and another cold front. I swear for almost every tournament we've had these are the conditions. All week its been stable, mid 70's and sunny. Today clouds and possible rain, tomorrow(tournament day) 65 and thunderstorms. This is kind of a big tournament for us, it's a buddy tourney, and we are 1 spot out of making the classic. Hopefully we can find a couple.