Winter 2022-23

[LrgmouthShad]

2 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Absolutely, been reading a bunch on these warm up periods we have in the South and what the fish do.      I'm going to start shallow after learning from the last one we had two weeks ago.   One successful pro down here breaks the top water out.    The thought of Top water is like thinking of a warm beach and Margaritas ?

Me personally if I'm on a clearer water lake and I've got cloud cover and cold, cold water temps, it can be very hard to get me to stop throwing a single colorado spinnerbait. Don't really care what the air temp is. 

 

Because a spinnerbait is where I feel most comfortable, those overcast winter days are what I love

[AlabamaSpothunter]

4 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Me personally if I'm on a clearer water lake and I've got cloud cover and cold, cold water temps, it can be very hard to get me to stop throwing a single colorado spinnerbait. Don't really care what the air temp is. 

 

Because a spinnerbait is where I feel most comfortable, those overcast winter days are what I love

Thanks for the tip!   Not very confident with Spinnerbaits, but I'll give them a try during this warming period.  All it takes is catching some good fish for you to get confidence with a bait, I always remind myself of this.   I've been throwing so many new things this year for the first time.  

 

Metal baits has been the only bust so far.

[LrgmouthShad]

6 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Not very confident with Spinnerbaits, but I'll give them a try during this warming period. 

Drop a compact single colorado to the bottom, slack line fall to let it helicopter, go into an immediate rod snap in case one grabbed it on the fall, and then creep it along at the exact slowest speed where you can just barely feel the blade turning. It will work even in frigid water. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

30 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Drop a compact single colorado to the bottom, slack line fall to let it helicopter, go into an immediate rod snap in case one grabbed it on the fall, and then creep it along at the exact slowest speed where you can just barely feel the blade turning. It will work even in frigid water. 

Nice, I'll give it a go......if I get a pig on it I'll send you one like it ?

[TnRiver46]

4 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Me personally if I'm on a clearer water lake and I've got cloud cover and cold, cold water temps, it can be very hard to get me to stop throwing a single colorado spinnerbait. Don't really care what the air temp is. 

 

Because a spinnerbait is where I feel most comfortable, those overcast winter days are what I love

That still works when cold? Good to know……… will try

 

granted I’ve failed at all temperatures 

[LrgmouthShad]

32 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That still works when cold? Good to know……… will try

 

granted I’ve failed at all temperatures 

I wanna say I remember a guy telling me the water temp was 39 degrees on a lake in NY when I was catching in like November shortly before ice over with that spinnerbait technique. With my most recent post in Latest Catch Pics thread, I dunno how cold the water was but same technique and it felt frigid.

 

I don’t think it catches numbers in the cold but I do think it catches bigguns.

Also I did some reading on Shearon Harris, wintertime or otherwise, and spinnerbaits can be a big deal on that lake apparently. No surprise with how many shad there is. If I get on the right spot, y’all look out

[12poundbass]

The closer this storm gets the nastier it’s looking. As of now the prediction is 8” of snow by Friday morning, 14” by Saturday morning, then another 8-10” of lake effect by Saturday night for a grand total of upwards of 24”+. By Friday evening 40-50mph winds roll in and continues through Saturday with windchills down to -15*. Some areas along the lakeshore are looking at or above 3’. All the snow is going to be lite and fluffy, throw in the 40-50mph winds, and we could see some deep interesting snow drifts. 
 

Should be interesting! 

[A-Jay]

37 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

The closer this storm gets the nastier it’s looking. As of now the prediction is 8” of snow by Friday morning, 14” by Saturday morning, then another 8-10” of lake effect by Saturday night for a grand total of upwards of 24”+. By Friday evening 40-50mph winds roll in and continues through Saturday with windchills down to -15*. Some areas along the lakeshore are looking at or above 3’. All the snow is going to be lite and fluffy, throw in the 40-50mph winds, and we could see some deep interesting snow drifts. 
 

Should be interesting! 

Yea ~ You know what it's like.

NWS could save a lot of time an effort if they just posted 

something to the effect of:

"Be Advised ~ Old Man Winter will be dropping the hammer this weekend". 

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

Isn’t today the first day of winter? At least the days are getting longer now 

[12poundbass]

22 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Isn’t today the first day of winter? At least the days are getting longer now 

That’s exactly what the local weatherman said this morning. The days may be getting longer but we still haven’t seen the sun in 13 days now.
 

Looking off to the east I can see clear skies and it looks like we could see the sun if it had time to get above the trees, but it like the movie the Perfect Storm. You see a glimmer of hope and get excited for a second, then reality sets in and the clouds engulf the sun! 

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

You see a glimmer of hope and get excited for a second, then reality sets in and the clouds engulf the sun! 

We had sun almost all of yesterday....didn't help as we topped out at +3

 

Right now it's -3 and stepping out the back door for a cig is not very fun.

[Deleted account]

Cold and snowy in the winter above the 42nd parallel? Who knew...

[TnRiver46]

24 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Cold and snowy in the winter above the 42nd parallel? Who knew...

The old men at Hardee’s have never seen it so cold (except last year but they already forgot that) 

[gim]

They've dropped the snow totals here from 5-10 inches to 3-6 inches.  I'd be fine with only 3 inches of the really light fluffy stuff.  That wouldn't be much different from the snow we got on Monday.  Behind the snow it will get bitter cold and very windy, creating potentially white out conditions in open areas.  Some areas of Western MN are expected to reach -40 wind chill.  That gives you under 10 minutes before frost bite can occur on exposed skin.

[Mobasser]

My area( north Central MO) will be getting hit tonight. 3" to 5" of snow and bitter cold with wind chills near 30 below. The weatherman said this is coming from Siberia.

[gim]

3 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

The weatherman said this is coming from Siberia.

Do we dare call it "meteorlogical warefare" from Putin?

[Mobasser]

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

Do we dare call it "meteorlogical warefare" from Putin?

Sounds correct.

[TOXIC]

Looks like here in my area we are in for a good soaking and then deep freeze.  Today is the last day of reasonable weather for a while and I was scheduled to go fishing and wouldn’t you know it, the wife comes down with Covid.  Now I get to be quarantined and take care of her.

[whitwolf]

Southern sissy alert...  This is not supposed to happen. 

[MN Fisher]

10 minutes ago, whitwolf said:

Southern sissy alert...  This is not supposed to happen.

Dude - 30's for a high up here this time of year and we're in short sleeves

[J Francho]

That's shorts and hoody weather lol. 

[TnRiver46]

4 hours ago, TOXIC said:

Looks like here in my area we are in for a good soaking and then deep freeze.  Today is the last day of reasonable weather for a while and I was scheduled to go fishing and wouldn’t you know it, the wife comes down with Covid.  Now I get to be quarantined and take care of her.

Hopefully she gets over it without any trouble 

[Glenn]

Low of 7 tonight, high of 18.  The ice storm comes Friday.

 

Spring cannot arrive soon enough.

[MN Fisher]

9 minutes ago, Glenn said:

Low of 7 tonight, high of 18.  The ice storm comes Friday.

 

Spring cannot arrive soon enough.

Trade ya...

[A-Jay]

Looks like we're the the Red ~

Rarely a good thing.

A-Jay