I LOVE THE FALL

Fall is my second favorite season of the year! There is so much to do with all the fall festivals, football games, senic drives looking at the fall colors, getting ready for another hunting season and least we forget, the great fall fishing! When I was a teenager I had an agenda that I followed weekly! The only thing that I didn't want to do was go to school! I would sit in class and stare out the window and watch the clock until school was out! I would get off the school bus around 3:30 to 3:45p.m. and be in and out of the house before 4:00 and headed over the hill to the lake! I usally used only one or two baits, either a 3" Rapala or a Johnson Silver Minnow with an Uncle Josh Pork Frog in green. Both of these work really well! Back then the lake I fished had a good population of 2#-4# Largemouth Bass and it was a rare occasion that I didn't catch three or four bass in an evening! As the season progressed, I would spend the late afternoons hunting squirrel and wait until the weekends to fish. Friday evening we would go to the local football game. I would be up early on Saturday and into the woods for more squirrel hunting and the afternoon would find me on the lake! Every once in a while I would have a tough time deciding whether to go hunting or fishing! It was a hard life but someone had to do it! Of all the Bass that I've caught in my life, I had to wait until I was 19 to catch my first 6# Bass. Since then I have been fortunate to have caught several in the 6#-8# range and it never amazes me on how shook up I get seeing the size of those Bass! Most of these larger fish have come in the fall of the year, when they are on a very active feed pattern, adding weight for the winter ahead! If you can get out fishing between now and ice over, do it! You may be graced with your biggest catch of your life!