When does the season start for you guys?

[newyorktoiowa57]

Starting to see the ponds de ice is getting me in the mood..lol. I feel like it will still be a month before I can get out though.  How's it looking for you guys?

[Russ E]

thanks to power plant lakes here in Kansas the season never ends. usually fish once a week in january and february. starting in march, the other lakes start warming. after that I spend a lot more time on the water.

[MN Fisher]

We still got lots of 'hard water' - pickups and SUVs are still driving on it. Bass season closed last Sunday, doesn't open again until May 9. Average ice-out on my lake is April 14...so between then and season opener, I'll be panfishing. Right now, I'm still doing mods to my canoe and yearly maintenance on my reels.

[Nelson Delaney]

In Mass it never ends..... as long as I can handle the cold. 

[Smokinal]

My season starts when the ice is gone!

Maine has no closed season for bass

[Nelson Delaney]

11 minutes ago, Smokinal said:

My season starts when the ice is gone!

Maine has no closed season for bass

I’ll be up to catch some of your pike & trout when it’s gone

[Team9nine]

The season never ends. If you can pitch a bait into any kind of open water, the game is on. Been out 11 times since Jan1. Caught bass 10 of those trips despite partial ice cover on half those trips

[Jaderose]

TOMORROW IN NOWEMO!  WHOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[slonezp]

Cooling lakes open March 1st and another on March 15th. Ice out should be in the next few weeks on the non cooling lakes if things keep going as is.

[Ksam1234]

Soon as the ice is gone for me in western New York! Lake Erie is actually fully open so I’m just waiting for it to warm up a bit. Can fish for bass all year long here. 

[Catt]

[Smokinal]

1 minute ago, Catt said:

I was waiting for you....

 

[Craig P]

In SE Pa this year I guess you could say the season never ended as the weather has been odd this year, it just got slow with some better than slow days in-between. I’ll be looking to go full swing in a couple of weeks as water temps increase.

[DitchPanda]

Still locked down with ice...extended forecast looks good..i d guess 2 or 3 weeks for me..could be faster if we get some rain and or wind

[Dens228]

I got my yak on the water March 14th last year.

 

[YoTone]

mid march 

[Bluebasser86]

I'm trying to keep track this year the number of black bass I catch. 3/4 of the way to 100 so far this year. Much slower start than last time I tracked my numbers, but hopefully the weather cooperates better than last time so I can finish the year much better than I did then.

[Glaucus]

If the weather and ice or lack thereof allows, I start to fish in March. I mean I don't usually catch anything and I just freeze because I like to torture myself for no reward. Then in April I really kick it into high gear. It's still sketchy though. I'm either smoking them or they're laughing at me for trying. May is when it gets really fun and the bites are plentiful. This will last until September. In October the "fall feed" begins but around here it seems like that's a myth unless I'm targeting smallmouth in rivers but even then it slows down a lot. November-February is completely dead and quickly frozen over.

 

Basically May-September is my season. The rest is a grind or impossible to fish without drilling through ice and that's not for me. 

 

Was supposed to move to Tennessee which would have changed everything but life circumstances messed that up.

[The Bassman]

Been catching fish on and off all winter here. Caught one just shy of 4# last weekend. I'm getting tired of the novelty of winter open water fishing at this point, though. I'm optimistic that we're going to have an early spring. Traditionally in central IN early March gives us our first shot. Recent years have clearly shown a trend away from the longer winters in the past.

[Hartwood71]

I’m chomping at the bit.   Too much ice.   Looking like late March.  

[Sam]

In Virginia, when the dogwood trees blossom the bass are on their beds.

 

So we look at the dogwood tree buds and then estimate when the bass will start moving up to their spawning beds.

 

This signals the game is afoot!

 

On the other hand, Club and Region tournaments will start in March and go through the end of the year.

 

[MIbassyaker]

Bass season is year-round for catch and release in MI now, but ice and my work schedule conspire to keep me away from the water until the last couple weeks of April.  However, I may scout some places from shore as the ice starts to retreat over the next month or so, and throw a line in here-and-there.

[Catt]

Just now, Smokinal said:

I was waiting for you....

 

 

Can't tell from the above posts but I'm sure I ain't the only Southern boy here!

[clayton86]

10 hours ago, Ksam1234 said:

Soon as the ice is gone for me in western New York! Lake Erie is actually fully open so I’m just waiting for it to warm up a bit. Can fish for bass all year long here. 

 

same here some of the quarries by my house are starting to open, oak orchard and the other tribs are open just blown out muddy and I’m not in the mood to fish for bass with the trout guys anyways though a few I seen got some smallies on the fly last week on the oak. Finger lakes are still locked up tent city on conesus yesterday when I had to go there for work. 

[roadwarrior]

Our "season" runs January 1 through December 31.