Cant stand not fishing? me too(frozen lakes)

[Dodge631]

can't stand not fishing when you want to most? me too.

well yesterday i was home sick and i looked up fishing techniques a lot that day. but my parents wouldn't let me out if I'm sick so yesterday was boring. so today i was like "SCHOOLS OUT IMA GO FISHING!"........the ponds nearby were... FROZEN! NOOOO!!!!! so looks like what i wanted to do isn't going to happen. yea i know theres ice fishing but the ice isn't that strong sought to hold me. just strong enough to mock me and my bass fishing needs.

so how many of you can't really fish either and reallllly want to?

[sillybass]

Don't have that hard water problem here. Convince your parents to move to the south

[Kal-Kevin]

so how many of you can't really fish either and reallllly want to?

That would be me! I have started getting the feel for wetting a line and got at least two more month before we get water that is not iced over. 

[Dodge631]

i would love to move down south. hopefully mom stops complaining about my camo clothes lmao.

im in Missouri. the weather here is random. its like 19 degrees now but this coming sunday and monday it will be like 60 degrees and know what I'm doing

then its going to freeze again the next day lmao

[bassmedic46]

I fish both open and hard water, unfortunately we haven't had much hard water here.

[Dodge631]

well i kinds want to try out some techniques with a spinner bait. i need some trailer hooks too.

[Camden]

what part of missouri you in? im here as well. but i know a couple lkes tht never freeze

[Dodge631]

Ladue. all i can do at the moment is tills pond which is way over fished but i can go drive to one

[Camden]

ah your over by STL then. im on the other side by KC

[Dodge631]

yea i need to find a good place around here

[ex301p]

Same problem here. Crazy winter. Normally we would have ice safe enough but one day it snows the next it rains. Told the wife today if I don't get my fishing fix soon its off to Florida for a couple weeks for me. 

[PBrussell]

Waters getting hard in my parts as well. Camden, it's seriously time to hit the jacuzzi...

[bassmaster3541]

The water is frozen for me up in mass but I am just outside of Daytona for a week right now 

[Alwims]

I'm from Pomme De Terre Lake in Missouri, but I'm in South South Texas at the moment. The wife and I went to Falcon Lake last yesterday and this morning. Kind of a slow day as we only caught around 20, 3 to 5 lbers yesterday and 30, 5 to 6 lbers this morning. Was cold too, temp was 50 degrees this morning. 

[Dodge631]

20 fish?! thats a lot for me lol. great yield. i just want to go fishing now lmao.

[Alwims]

Come on down. I'll take ya to one of the greatest fisheries in the world, Falcon Lake Texas. The lake is fishing slow right now, but the spawn is right around the corner.

[Dodge631]

ya man i wish lol. would love to move down south. one day. in high school now so i gotta wait a while.

[Stump bumper]

Do you have any moving water around you? I used to live on the Canadian border for years and have always found some open water somewhere. If you are close to the Mississippi I just watched a show where they catching walleyes below a damn last year when it was really cold near Carthersville, MO and I used to live over there and had no idea there were walleyes in that part of the River.

Where there is a will there is a way.

When I lived in Vermont I used to make a trip to the river and cast below damns when the temp was -20 just to get over the cabin fever and never got skunked, frost bite, but not skunked.

[coldfront]

I'm from Pomme De Terre Lake in Missouri, but I'm in South South Texas at the moment. The wife and I went to Falcon Lake last yesterday and this morning. Kind of a slow day as we only caught around 20, 3 to 5 lbers yesterday and 30, 5 to 6 lbers this morning. Was cold too, temp was 50 degrees this morning. 

I understand and feel your pain...

(you too Baron!  sounds like you're in excellent health this year...at least hoping so.)

[Baron49]

I know exactly what you are saying.  Everything here is frozen solid and temps are hovering either just above or just below 0.  On top of that the snow and the drifts are piled up high.  Guess this is why around this time every year I head to Florida for a couple months.  In fact the countdown to my leaving is at 12 days. 

[bluebasser86]

The ponds are finally frozen but they've been generating plenty at the power plant down south. Water was in the low 60's at the outlet Monday when I was down there. Fish weren't biting great but it's a lot better than sitting at home wishing!

[Dodge631]

true. this weekend here it is going to warm up. can't wait.

[yak-aholic]

can't stand not fishing when you want to most? me too.

well yesterday i was home sick and i looked up fishing techniques a lot that day. but my parents wouldn't let me out if I'm sick so yesterday was boring. so today i was like "SCHOOLS OUT IMA GO FISHING!"........the ponds nearby were... FROZEN! NOOOO!!!!! so looks like what i wanted to do isn't going to happen. yea i know theres ice fishing but the ice isn't that strong sought to hold me. just strong enough to mock me and my bass fishing needs.

so how many of you can't really fish either and reallllly want to?

Maybe try some 2 oz. tungsten and see if you can punch the ice

[Dodge631]

my stepdads got some. ill find em. what kind of lure or pattern works good in cold conditions?

[papamark]

That would be me! I have started getting the feel for wetting a line and got at least two more month before we get water that is not iced over. 

Ya mean you aint out fishing Portage, or Gull Lake ?