"Paul G. Mowrey" wrote in message ...
It's late October. Air temps in the 50's. Water temps in the upper
50's/lower 60's. Sky is mostly sunny. Water is relatively clear. Lake has
blown down trees, some stumps, and underwater trees. Some areas are
consistently 10' to 15' deep. Other areas have steep banks into 30+' of
water. The lake is shaped like a hand, fingers and all.

What lure(s) would you use at this time of year and what time of day would
you most like to fish?

Thanks!

This time of year, I don't make a special effort to get up early for the morning bite. I prefer to
wait until the sun is up and have found that most of my bites come during the mid day period, when
the water has warmed up a degree or two.

As far as lures to use, I'm still throwing Secret Weapon spinnerbaits, especially shallow, near
stumps and rock piles, but the advantage to using a spinnerbait is that you can fish it faster, as a
reaction type bait or let it helicopter deeper and slow roll it. I will also use both hard and soft
jerkbaits, the soft ones if I'm pitching near cover, the hard baits if I'm fishing a little deeper
and in a less snag-filled environment. For this application, I like to use suspending type lures.
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Steve
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