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Ron Schara: As weather cools the fish will bite with a vengeance
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Any day now, we'll be wearing jackets in our fishing boats and wishing for long underwear.
It's a sign that the fall fishing season is near.
I like Larry Bollig's definition of fall fishing. The noted angler simply says fall fishing happens after Labor Day or roughly thereafter. It means that anglers from International Falls to Fairmont will experience an uptick in fishing action, assuming you have the wherewithal to present the right bait in the right place.
The walleyes of September and October tend to bite with more gusto at depths as varied as 6 feet to 40 feet; big bass and big northern pike tend to be ravenous eaters stalking the last of the green vegetation. And muskies, the really big ones that followed lures all summer, will now strike with vengeance.
In the meantime, some of us have hunting dogs and shotguns and pheasant fields and grouse coverts that require attention, all at the same time these fish are chomping on bare hooks.
It's a nice problem to have during the long underwear season.
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