The month of October has passed, and so has my 2016 bass fishing season. My bass fishing wrapped up during the week of October 9th, and after lots of musky and multi-species fishing the Ranger was winterized on October 21st. Our fall season has been confused and I'm not quite sure it knows what to do. Shouldn't it keep getting colder, and not warmer? The reality is I should still be bass fishing, but having now winterized and closed up the house these circumstances assures me that I’m done until next May. The warm weather and Indian summer we experienced this month prolonged the fall shallow water feeding and bass movements. The warm climate consequently delayed the turnover process, and what anglers got to enjoy was a greatly-extended pre-turnover fishing period that lasted through mid October. This rarely happens, as usually by second week of the month turnover passes and water temperatures in most places would be in the upper 40 to low 50 degree range. Turnover hadn’t begun on most lakes until the third week of October. Although the calendar turns to November 1st on Tuesday, we're about 2 weeks behind schedule in where fall fishing and patterns really should be. At thi