2022 in Central Indiana is underway

[ironbjorn]

With yesterday's 60* temps I made my first outting of the year. I caught exactly zero fish, but it sure was nice. I could have tried harder, stayed longer, and used more variety. I mostly threw Vision 110s and the new Mini Max Chatterbait with a Baby Goat trailer. Tried a spinnerbait and a jig for a bit too. In the final 20 minutes I was there I decided to pick up where I left off on December 29th when I caught my last bass: Super Spook Jr. Man, the colder that water got, the better the Spook was. Everything I thought I knew about bass was shattered as I spent those final 2 weeks hammering countless bass with the Spook in freezing water. Well yesterday, in those final 20 or so minutes, just after ice out, with the water still freezing cold, I got two blowups. Both fish missed the bait sadly, but that's fine, it was nice to see and continued to show me that I know nothing. Both bass went airborne, the first maybe a pound and a half at most, the second bass would have been at least four pounds as far as I could tell. Simply amazing. 

[InfantryMP]

Nice! I will be out this weekend fishing the Wildcat for some smallmouth. It is supposed to be close to 70* or so. Whereabouts in Central Indiana are you?

[ironbjorn]

8 minutes ago, InfantryMP said:

Nice! I will be out this weekend fishing the Wildcat for some smallmouth. It is supposed to be close to 70* or so. Whereabouts in Central Indiana are you?

Mooresville

I was so excited about the 70* temps Saturday until I saw that it was updated to 30+ mph wind gusts. Of course the best day on the schedule for the next 10 days is the windiest...of course. I'll still be out there but that's disappointing.

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4 hours ago, ironbjorn said:

With yesterday's 60* temps I made my first outting of the year. I caught exactly zero fish, but it sure was nice. I could have tried harder, stayed longer, and used more variety. I mostly threw Vision 110s and the new Mini Max Chatterbait with a Baby Goat trailer. Tried a spinnerbait and a jig for a bit too. In the final 20 minutes I was there I decided to pick up where I left off on December 29th when I caught my last bass: Super Spook Jr. Man, the colder that water got, the better the Spook was. Everything I thought I knew about bass was shattered as I spent those final 2 weeks hammering countless bass with the Spook in freezing water. Well yesterday, in those final 20 or so minutes, just after ice out, with the water still freezing cold, I got two blowups. Both fish missed the bait sadly, but that's fine, it was nice to see and continued to show me that I know nothing. Both bass went airborne, the first maybe a pound and a half at most, the second bass would have been at least four pounds as far as I could tell. Simply amazing. 

Hey gotta get out there right? Interesting thing happened to me a couple of days ago. I was pickerel fishing with a large floating JB, sweeping it and pausing, and got distracted by something for a second, and as I looked up to see what it was the JB floated to the top, and about 5 seconds later got hit on top with a big splash by what I thought was a pickerel, well it turned out to be a 4 1/2ish lb bass. I'm gonna go back out to try to do that on purpose. Water probably high 40s low 50s.

[Finessegenics]

Glad to hear, it will be soon enough for me! 

[InfantryMP]

2 hours ago, ironbjorn said:

Mooresville

I was so excited about the 70* temps Saturday until I saw that it was updated to 30+ mph wind gusts. Of course the best day on the schedule for the next 10 days is the windiest...of course. I'll still be out there but that's disappointing.

 

Yea I hear ya. I think I will be a bit protected in the creek from all the wooded areas around me, but I am hoping the water gets moving with the wind. The smallmouth will come alive in that current I bet. 

 

Good luck to you!