When does the season start for you guys?

[CarpCasey]

Last weekend in March they stock trout at my local pond, that's when it starts for me. 

[Bankbeater]

I'm just waiting until it warms up a bit.  If they are right about the temps it is looking like sometime next week I will be out on the water.

[Cdn Angler]

Bass don't open here until June 18th. 

[FryDog62]

Our season in Minnesota doesn’t open until mid-May, but the ice will be off hopefully by mid-April.  I plan to be in a neighboring state with a year-round season in late April.  
 

T minus 50 days ?

[NYWayfarer]

6 hours ago, Glaucus said:

 

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

Same for me as well.

[Ogandrews]

Thankfully I live near the lower Mississippi in southern mn where the season never closes. I’ll spend the next month walleye fishing on pool 4, then I’ll start pike and bass fishing in the backwaters until the whole state opens in may

[Crestliner2008]

Here in MA the winter thus far has been very mild. Very little ice left on the ponds and no snow on the ground! Very unusual for us. I suspect that over the next week or two I'll be wetting line somewhere from shore.

[BassNJake]

23 hours ago, Catt said:

 

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

When I lived in Ohio, I used to count how many trips I'd take in a year.

Now that I live in TN, I count consecutive months and the last month I didn't fish a day was Dec 2013.

 

I thought being from the North I would have the lake all to myself in the winter months.

Boy was I wrong, the ramp is packed whether its a 22 degree morning or if its 90.

The southern boys just love to fish 

[Bigassbass]

Fishing never shuts down for me unless it's snow on the ground which is rare here in the center of good ole North Carolina.  Went fishing today and the season is wide open, caught some nice crappie and lots of brim.  Going tomorrow think I'll keep a couple crappie to cook for dinner! 

[WRB]

We use to have opening day in California for trout on May 1st and bass on June 1st decades ago. Today only the eastern Sierra has a trout season May to October, no closed season state wide for bass. 

The climate were I live you can fish year around.

Tom

[TnRiver46]

On 3/1/2020 at 7:53 AM, BassNJake said:

When I lived in Ohio, I used to count how many trips I'd take in a year.

Now that I live in TN, I count consecutive months and the last month I didn't fish a day was Dec 2013.

 

I thought being from the North I would have the lake all to myself in the winter months.

Boy was I wrong, the ramp is packed whether its a 22 degree morning or if its 90.

The southern boys just love to fish 

Wasn’t that the year Norris was up in the woods and all the marina roofs collapsed under snow? 

[Catt]

[DanielG]

Here in Maine, ice out mid to late April. Ice water though.

[CHIP-MAINE]

here in maine after many years otherwise, most ponds and lakes are open year round but most stream and brooks dont open till april 1st. have have bass the first week of april in ponds that the water turns over fast.

[LCG]

June 27th ?

[iiTzChunky]

Ofically starts today. Hitting the waters for the first time this year. Lined my poles out a week ago but any decent day we've had its been crazy windy. Not trying to catch a birds nest on the first cast with new line 

[DitchPanda]

Guess I lied...Ice is out on my local pond so season starts for me tomorrow

 

[Mr. Aquarium]

Thanks to the ocean and crazy MA weather I’ve been able to fish open water all winter. While 20 miles north or west had ice. 20 miles south wide open.  Some weeks we had ice on most ponds but to thin to fish. Then a week later it was wide open. But now it’s been beautiful out. Above average temps it’s game on. The water is warming up! 

[Dens228]

My kayak is hitting the water tomorrow for the first time in 2020....

[Chunk_Chaser]

On 3/4/2020 at 4:56 PM, LCG said:

June 27th ?

I feel your pain. ?

[DogBone_384]

On 2/28/2020 at 7:58 PM, Nelson Delaney said:

In Mass it never ends...

It sure hasn’t for ‘19-‘20... SE MA & Cape Cod didn’t freeze this winter.

 

My kayak’s gotten no rest at all.

[Nelson Delaney]

25 minutes ago, DogBone_384 said:

It sure hasn’t for ‘19-‘20... SE MA & Cape Cod didn’t freeze this winter.

 

My kayak’s gotten no rest at all.

And the state has started trout stocking now.  Time to test out the new bosses patience 

[Way north bass guy]

1 hour ago, Chunk_Chaser said:

I feel your pain. ?

It doesn’t have to be that long of a wait. Three hours north of me bass season is open all year. And some of the lakes have almost zero pressure any time of year, as most of the guys around there are only going for trout. 

[Chunk_Chaser]

13 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

It doesn’t have to be that long of a wait. Three hours north of me bass season is open all year. And some of the lakes have almost zero pressure any time of year, as most of the guys around there are only going for trout. 

I know! I have a spot west of Sudbury I go to a few weeks out of the year starting in May. Big Smallmouth!

[Boomstick]

Up here in Mass, some lakes are starting to thaw! My son is still playing travel hockey and I need to get licenses too, so I'm not sure when I will get out.