Autumn is moving in | Waterline | yoursun.com

The days are getting shorter and the air is a little less hot. It’s more comfortable on the water — but where are the bass?

It won’t be long. The humidity is dropping, the days are getting shorter, and the fishing is about to change. It doesn’t matter if you fish fresh or salt water — once those two factors start coming into play, things change.

This is the time of year to keep an eye on the bait moving around. Once the bait gets mobile, the bass start to move as well. As the baitfish move, so do the predators that rely on them to stay alive. The fact that we are moving into shorter days and the humidity is dropping will start to have an effect on what the bait does. Mind you, lakes move a little bit differently than something like the Gulf of Mexico, but finding bass when the weather changes is something that can grate on the nerves a tad.

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Greg Bartz is a tournament bass fisherman based in Lakeland. Greg fishes lakes throughout Florida’s Heartland and enjoys RV travel around the Southeast with his wife and tournament partner, Missy. Contact him at [email protected].

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