Today I learned....

[DBrooke]

The water is flippin cold still


Ice can be broken *already knew that one 



Once you break through 60 yards or so there is sometimes a surprise!



Any of you plan to break ice on a electric only lake, male sure you have 2 batteries!

[-Joe-]

How in the hell can you catch fish in that cold of water?

[lugnut]

it just looks cold!

[TheLastRodBender]

Popsicle anyone?

[zwon13]

Fish deep and slow!!

[DBrooke]

You can tell who the southerners are here

This was pulled at a local pit like this one this past weekend. Notice the ice in the background still

[theBaitBar]

Is that Mazonia?

[DBrooke]

Yeah, thats part of Mazonia. What do you know about Mazonia, are you local to me and I didn't know it?

[mike54]

Went to my club Lake Monday (Plfd.) and still had ice.Was going to check it out again maybe Tomarrow.

[Lipripper]

All right DB we use to break ice to go Crappie fishing on Lake Shelbyville.

[Mike Cork]

Can you say NOOOOOO.... that aint gonna happen, we cancel tournaments down here if it looks like that 

OMG when will you finally warm up, up there   We have bedding fish on a couple of our waterways already. WT's solid low sixties

[DBrooke]

  Mike you're funny. Believe it or not last summer some of our water hit almost 90.

[Mike Cork]

Mike you're funny. Believe it or not last summer some of our water hit almost 90.

That's one of our problems here, the water gets so hot that the fish get as sluggish as they do in the winter. I've seen water in shallows at 101 and average lake temps at 98.  But I'd much rather deal with hot water than frozen water

[theBaitBar]

Yeah, thats part of Mazonia. What do you know about Mazonia, are you local to me and I didn't know it?

I'm form Elk Grove.  I fished Mazonia last year for the first time about 3 times.  Great area, I'm sure you local guys know what pits to fish.  With so many different areas it can take all year to fish them all. 

[DBrooke]

Yeah it takes a while to get them down. Trying to have the Midwest rally here this year just need enough votes (hint hint)
http://www.ultimatebass.com/bass-fishing-forum/index.php?board=516.0

[Band1t]

man....that really makes me appreciate seeing 70.5 degrees on the depth finder yesterday!!!   

[screwballl]

That's one of our problems here, the water gets so hot that the fish get as sluggish as they do in the winter. I've seen water in shallows at 101 and average lake temps at 98.  But I'd much rather deal with hot water than frozen water

Same here in the FL panhandle. Right now most of the ponds and lakes in my area are in the 63-68ºF range.

[RedTop]

  But I'd much rather deal with hot water than frozen water

Same here!!!!!

[mike54]

Yea.....But can you skip a jig 100 yards

[Nickstuff]

Tell the truth now,....that poor ole" bass froze to death didn't he,.....   

[DBrooke]

The ones I pulled today weren't froze then again the water was 3 deg warmer than the air today.

[bassbmx]

Michigan's rule is no bass fishing until the middle of April so I am forced to fish Indiana until then.  I would die if I was too far north to go to Indiana and bass fish until then.  The water is still under 40 on the open spots I can find and the fish look like statues in the water.

[Nickstuff]

I would die if I was so far North I "had" to go to Indiana,.......the water on Lake Verete today was nice,.....

[tennispro]

Heck I found 70 deg water today in Illinois.  But it was also on a cooling lake   My brother and his buddy fished a lake that was about 7 miles from us and they were seeing 50 for water temps.  Nice part of shallow lakes.