First of December, if the water is 57-62 --- will bass still be in a shallow tributary pattern or moved to deeper main lake haunts?

They are at pk,creeks are full of shad at pk

I have found tons of bait in the creeks the last few weeks. Whitney, Bridgeport, Granbury, PK... Bass in the creeks with the bait? Not so much!

Found lots of bait in the creeks last week a couple days, but I found bait a little deeper as well and that's where I got the most bites.

Bait seems to be every where from main lake to the way backs of the creeks... tons of it on all the lakes I've been fishing. Fish just need to yawn and they get a mouthful of threadfin. Find the gizzard shad among all those threadfin and you find the bass.

It's always a challenge for me on what to throw in the Fall when the fish are feeding and there are shad everywhere. I've had a few times where I am back in a cove and bait is flickering everywhere and bass are busting on them, but I can't get a bite. It's like sometimes there is too much bait and nothing works. Still better than not having any idea where they are, but that line about the fish yawning and getting a mouthful made me think of some of those days.

Well, I think I’m going to Grapevine and I marked a bunch of main lake places that interest me on Navionics on my iPad but maybe I should stick with the dam, creeks and coves.

Creeks in Grapevine have been loaded with bait for a month, some will even black out the graph as your idling in. Best fishing for me was mainlake, couldn't get it going in my favorite creeks.

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