Winter 2024 / 2025 ~

[casts_by_fly]

we're getting all of that as wind and rain today.  15-20 MPH constant with gusts over 35.  Supposed to get an inch plus of rain today in the next 8 hours.  The ponds are half thawed and this should break up the ice pretty well (its 57 degrees).  Then sunny wind for the next week plus and 65 degree highs coming up.  I fished today for the first time since Sep/Oct of last year and it was the first day in the woods or water in nearly 8 weeks now.  The cabin fever was real.

[MN Fisher]

1 hour ago, casts_by_fly said:

we're getting all of that as wind and rain today.

We got dumped on - between 4" and 12" depending on where in the Metro you lived...and it's the heavy, wet, heart-attack inducing stuff.

[T-Billy]

60 and sunshine yesterday, 30 and blowing 30 with snow squalls today. March is coming in like a schizophrenic lion this year!!! 😂 

[12poundbass]

[DogBone_384]

4 hours ago, T-Billy said:

60 and sunshine yesterday, 30 and blowing 30 with snow squalls today. March is coming in like a schizophrenic lion this year!!! 😂 

 

Welcome to the New England weather pattern!

[Jar11591]

50s and rainy yesterday melted most of the snow. Rivers are flowing. Lakes are getting some puddles atop the ice. We’re trending in the right direction. I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll be fishing before April. 

[T-Billy]

23 minutes ago, DogBone_384 said:

 

Welcome to the New England weather pattern!

It's actually pretty typical March/April weather here in OH also. 

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, DogBone_384 said:

 

Welcome to the New England weather pattern!

 

Not in coastal Maine. Our weather is pretty much the same, day after day after day. Living on the Atlantic really moderates. 

 

I've lived in Ohio, where Tim lives, and in the middle of the U.S.,  where the temperature swings are much more extreme. I've also lived on the West Coast, which is much like the East Coast, where yesterday and today and tomorrow are all pretty much the same day, weather-wise. 

 

Of course, Maritime climates do have fronts, but we can go weeks without much change, temperature-wise.

[DogBone_384]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

Living on the Atlantic really moderates. 

We also live on the coast. The biggest benefit we get is less snow compared to downtown, unless the winds come in off the water.

 

[TOXIC]

I usually come on here and boast about being able to fish year round due to having access to a nuclear hot water discharge cooling private lake (3,000 acres in 3 pools).  Our average temps “normally” allow us to bundle up and go fish.  This winter has been brutally cold and windy.  We went to Florida the first week of February and have not been out since.  I’m normally up for cold weather but this year I finally had to tell my fishing partner I’m not going to torture myself to fish.  We are heading out tomorrow for the first time.  Weather is supposed to be in the mid 50’s and 9mph winds.  That’s pretty pleasant for winter.  

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, DogBone_384 said:

We also live on the coast. The biggest benefit we get is less snow compared to downtown, unless the winds come in off the water.

 

 

Summertime and the livin' is easy

Coastal breeze blowin'

All over our land!

[Bird]

After a loooong cold and windy winter I'm going out for the 1st time in 2025.

70's most of next week so will pick out the least windiest day.

Certainly don't expect optimal water temps but just trolling around the lake casting and the anticipation of the 1st bite should restore sanity 😉

[MN Fisher]

4 minutes ago, Bird said:

restore sanity

If any of us were ever sane to begin with. 🤪

[Bird]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

If any of us were ever sane to begin with. 🤪

Well, there's definitely that 😂

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

If any of us were ever sane to begin with. 🤪

That's a club I've definitely never been a part of, and I have the scars and x-rays to prove it. 😂