Late season twinkie's lull you to sleep

[Striperhound]

At this point in the season it seems as if the day light crowd has given up on large and switched to twinkies. Everyone is throwing egg rigs or similiar. I am thinking more and more that the large stay away from the immediate shore in numbers during the fall and the twinkies take over. The better fish caught this weekend were few and far between 1 fish in a spot, hit the right time and place you got it, if not it was twinkie season. Are we going to see another push of large near shore in November? What does eveyone think?

[Jim D]

i think we will have a good run of fish in november. You can't really compare this fall to last fall but last november we had a weeks worth of good fishing with many large bass in the 30 lb+ class. Water temps are still around 60 or so.

[Pete_G]

If they don't go out out sea, Newport, Jamestown, and maybe Narry will be a lot of fun in the next few weeks. Big fish are close to shore in spots not too far away from here.

Several people found adult bunker in the breachways this weekend too, so we have at least some quality bait in close.

[Striperhound]

Pete been hearing the same thing but the big bait has kept the larger fish out of casting range. With the North to west winds of fall, will these fish come in or stay away. What is the magic combination to get them into shore?

[Pete_G]

I also think peanut bunker are more important then we think when it comes to larger fish. I haven't see too many of them lately, not counting in the Bay.

Block reports, from shore, have been dismal too so that hopefully indicates the fish aren't entirely going out to sea.

Baby bunker, some larger bait, and some Southerly breezes. Most spots will have neither of the first two and all will get Northerly winds all week. I'm going to fish hard when the wind rolls South Friday though.

[tlapinski]

Big bass will feed on smaller bass pretty regularly. When I start finding lots of small bass in the late fall, I try to up the size of my offering to something like a 4 ounce Nils Master swimmer in white. It looks just like a schoolie snaking across the surface...