Summer scouting equals fall fish

Dylan Fulk said that bass fisherman can get a head start on great fall fishing during the summer.

“It’s important to do some scouting for the fall during the summer,” he said. “You’ll find a lot of bait on main-lake points and around flats that will hold bass. What you want to do in the fall is fish the creeks that are related to those areas that held bait and bass during the summer.

“You can go back to those creeks and catch fish all fall long.”

When bass move all the way into the backs of the feeder creeks, Fulk will put away his normal baits and just fan-cast a lipless crankbait.

“Start in the middle of the pocket and just fish all the way around,” he said. “I catch 90 percent of my fish in the backs of creeks doing that with a lipless crankbait.”