Seth S:

Texas rig a good beefy worm, I recently cought a few Bass on a rattlebait in that type weather, also in that weather I cought a few on a
good deep crank, Never leave out a good spinnerbait with a little red on the skirt.

Nathan S:

I live in Asheville NC and have caught some bass using a 1/2oz Strike King Football jig in PB&J color with pumpkin craw trailer. I have also been using a drop shot rig with a 4” Berkley Power worm in camo color but I cut the curl of the tail off. I have gotten some strikes on a Gold/black Diamond shad liplees but no hook ups. With the drop shot I fish it so slow I swear Spring, Summer, and Fall have come and gone before I get it back to the boat. I have also had some fish using a 3” pumpkin Bitsy Craw by Strike King on a 1/8oz long shank jig head. Good luck, let us know how you do.

Artie:

with fronts moving in and then on past. The water temperature at 50 and probably dropping I would go off shore and look for underwater structures from roads to raised areas. In fact if the raised (submerged hills) areas are rocky, I would jig them, even doodle them or other deeper water with spoons. Try to get into the middle between to points on the water hoping that before the lake was filled with water the areas between the points were a canyon. if you can and are fishing with electronics find a raised area in these valleys or crevices, the closer they come to the surface the more they will be used by bait fish. I would even try using large trout pattern plastics (paddletails) and on a lead head rig the hook coming out on one side and rase it off the bottom fast and let it settle back to the bottom slowly as you keep the line taught the bass will hit the chrome spoons, jigs and all the slowly fished swimbaits on the fall more so in cold water than on the rise like they will do in warm water. so keep the line tight to the hook and you’ll feel all the bites. try and cover lots and lots of bottom by raising the baits fast and letting them float kind of, back down into a different spot always anticipating the bite as it falls. I would also fish outside the entrances to the feeder creeks and streams preferring to fish on the first drop off. Thusly allowing the murkey water feeding down stream from the creeks and streams to remain nearer to the surface as it moves out away from shore but the dark water raises in temperature first and so the murkey water will rise and only be a certain amount or part of the depth. It usually is clean water underneath usually beginning outside a drop off where quite often bass will stack up watching for food to fall out of the murk….lastly the north inlets and cuts into the lakeside will be the warmest water where the sun traveling in the southern sky can shine onto it all day especially as the days get longer. Fish shallow water techniques and baits in the northern bays and inlets large worms, green crawdads, white (light colored) frogs and lizards all around weedlines and stickups. best of luck I would give anything to be there with you.

dirtywater:

use a whitecolor or a black and red flake tube bait rig it like a texas rig but with no weight