Go Figure

[papajoe222]

Finally was able to get out and catch a couple even though there was still ice on the water.  Started out drop-shotting Berkley PowerBait mini-swimbaits with no love.  Switched to dead sticking a nosed hooked TikiStick, with the same results.  Put down the fairy wand and started chucking  a 3in. minnow (jerk) bait with a fairly quick retrieve.  On the second cast, BAM, an 18in. bass.  Switched quickly to a tandem willow leafed spinner and continued to catch 'em. 

Go figure

[Paul Roberts]

Sounds like they needed speed.

[paul.]

for some reason, people are reluctant to throw moving baits in cold water.  real cool that you figured out that's what they wanted.  good thinking.

[Tuckahoe Joe]

for some reason, people are reluctant to throw moving baits in cold water.  real cool that you figured out that's what they wanted.  good thinking.

Caught a couple on spinner baits myself a few days ago.  Definitely wasn't expecting the results I got considering the water temps.

[flyfisher]

Nice job figuring them out.  I know i have caught quite a few on square bills this winter in temps all the way down to 39-40.  I read an article by alton Jones once and he said there are two schools of thought to cold weather; super slow or super fast and most people go super slow but there are days where super fast reaction baits just plain work.

[papajoe222]

Nice job figuring them out.  I know i have caught quite a few on square bills this winter in temps all the way down to 39-40.  I read an article by alton Jones once and he said there are two schools of thought to cold weather; super slow or super fast and most people go super slow but there are days where super fast reaction baits just plain work.

Didn't read that article, but I know of what he speaks.  Three years ago, on the same body of water, on the Monday after Easter, I literally tired of burning a 1/2oz. Cordell HotSpot.  Half the fish I brought to shore had that bait entirely in their mouths. If I'd have known, I'd have brought my 7:1 burner reel, but even with the 6.3:1 I was using that bait was flying.

[Paul Roberts]

Didn't read that article, but I know of what he speaks.  Three years ago, on the same body of water, on the Monday after Easter, I literally tired of burning a 1/2oz. Cordell HotSpot.  Half the fish I brought to shore had that bait entirely in their mouths. If I'd have known, I'd have brought my 7:1 burner reel, but even with the 6.3:1 I was using that bait was flying.

Was that Easter 2010? Where were you fishing? Looking at weather records for Chicago, that day was in the midst of a string of unseasonably warm 75F days. Do you have water temps for that day?