Winter Spinnerbait (and Lipless Crank) Bass - 19.51lb Bag / UPDATE - Another 14lbs

[Goose52]

Nice fish, goose! Thanks for posting the pics, theyre helping me get thru this freakin winter!! Still got 4" to 8" of ice on everything here in SE Ohio. Keep em coming!!!

I'm tryin' but it's hard right now...literally...the cove that I caught those fish in froze-over last night! ;D

I drove to 7 of my 11 lakes today - ice in 4 of them. 3 had some open water near the dams so I fished them a bit...no one home. I'll be driving to the other 4 lakes tomorrow to see if if I have any open water in them...

[Goose52]

....wanna bet where I'll be if that weather pattern repeats... ;D

Well, it took 11 days but I did get a repeat of the weather pattern that gave me the great catches that I reported earlier (14.81lbs and 23.41lbs). In the past week, the cove I've been scoring in iced up, then thawed, then we had 2 days of warm weather. Water temp rose quickly from 38 degrees right after ice out to 48 degrees today. A low-pressure front rolled in today - not much rain while I was fishing in the afternoon but it's pouring outside right now.

I got 5 more bass on a lipless crank: 21"/4.40lb, 19"/3.10lb, 18"/2.91lb, 18"/2.84lb and a 12" (weight who cares!) for about 14 more pounds. Counting individual fish that I've picked up inbetween the big catches, that makes a total of over 65lbs of bass I've pulled from that cove in the last couple weeks. Not bad for cold water... 8-)

Didn't get photos of all the fish today but here's the 4.4lb fish.

Life is still good, and getting warmer, high on the Cumberland plateau in Tennessee!

[Big-O]

WTG Goose, you're doin it right! Putting the change up on'em 

Big O

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[Goose52]

Thanks Big-O!  I actually started with a spinnerbait again today - missed a fish on that, immediately followed up with the lipless crank, and kept fishing that until the bite stopped. Then went back to the spinnerbait but still no more bites...