How to Catch Bass in November with Mark Davis
Day 3: Mark Davis Explains How to Spinner Bait Fish In November
Editor’s Note: Bass Pro Mark Davis of Mt. Ida, Arkansas, won the Bassmaster Classic in 1995 and has had five first-place finishes and 44 top-10 finishes. To help you catch fish this month, Davis shares how he catches bass in November.
 Spinner baits and fall fishing go together like peas and carrots. One of the reasons the spinner bait is such an effective tool for fall fishing is that it is the ideal lure to fish-around shallow cover. I like to fish the spinner bait around laydowns, stumps, brush, logs, log jams, docks or any other type of cover I can find. In most areas of the country, lakes are drawn-down during November, and you can locate isolated cover on the flats up in the creeks. You also can locate isolated cover in pockets and coves that you may not see at any other time of the year. When you find these isolated pieces of cover, you can present a spinner bait, and many times catch bass that haven’t seen a spinner bait for 6 months or more.
 I prefer a 6-1/2-foot rod when I fish a spinner bait. I like 25-pound-test, monofilament line and a medium-heavy action rod with a fast gear ratio. In clear-water lakes, I choose white or a more natural-looking-color bait. In stained-water lakes, I prefer chartreuse-color spinner baits. I cast the spinner bait out past the cover and reel it back past the cover. The clearer the water, the closer you want to keep the spinner bait to the surface.  The more stained the water, the deeper you want the spinner bait to run past the cover. I change-up the action of the spinner bait throughout the retrieve, often speeding it up, slowing the bait down or killing the bait by the cover. Another tactic is to drop slack in your line so the blades stop spinning or spin more slowly. Then when you start reeling fast again, you create an erratic action that often will trigger a bass to strike. Few fishermen throw slack in their lines to pause or slow-down the rotation of the blade, and then increase the speed of the spinner bait. But I think this type retrieve produces more bass.
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