By Rick Culver August - This month is known as dog days and the bite slows down as the game fish go deeper to cooler water. White Bass, walleye, bass and crappie hold in 35-50 feet of water and vertical fishing is the technique to use to trigger the fish. Best lures are Jigging Spoons, ball jigs tipped with shiners or crawlers, tube baits, hula grubs, flukes and centipedes. Here again your best fishing is early in the morning and late afternoon into the night. August is also the prime time for sunfish and the cliff walls with standing time.
Crickets are the best bait to use for the sunfish.
September - The days are still warm but the nights start to cool down and the end of dog days grows closer. Zara Spooks, Spit'N Image and Pop R's work great on the largemouth bass. Tube baits, Mojo rigged centipedes and Spider Jigs trigger most of the smallmouth bass. Walleye start to move back into the creeks, holding over the deeper channels during the day. Long line Bill Norman's DD14's and DD22's and Reef Runners during this period.