How late in the season do you fish??

[bigbill]

Yup how late towards the fall/winter do you still fish?

I was out in november with it snowing throwing a minnowbait and using a dying minnow presentation when i hooked into something really big.(jerk/pause letting it come up and swim down again)  I use a HD bass rod 6'6'' and it had my rod almost in half.  Even the cars going by were slowing up watching me fight this fish.  It got off before i ever got to see it but it proves we can still fish late in the season before the ice is on.  I guess there still looking for there last easy meal.

Any thoughts on late season bass fishing?

Now i have lost so many big fish i bumped up my line size.  I'm using 14# test for my topwater stuff were i was using 8# test before.  I hope using the heavier line isn't ruining my fishing.  Lately i'm just on catching the fish i once was and i'm not sure why.  Could line diameter affect your fishing?

[Jake.]

All year long...

[SoFlaBassAddict]

All year long...

x2

One of the joys of living in southern Florida.  Unless we have one of those ridiculously bad cold snaps like earlier this year.

[Gatorbassman]

I broke ice with my boat this winter and caught a few.

[kms399]

I fish till duck hunting starts. I may get out on a  friday night but for the most part rods come out and the  blind goes on the boat.

[J Francho]

When ice chases me off the lake, I hit the ditches for cold steel. Once the ice melts, I'm on the water again

[Dwight Hottle]

I fish right up to hard water then head south where ice isn't a problem.

[Hook Set]

All year, doesn't get too bad here in southern VA. I too, have been known to break ice to fish.

We catch big ones here on jigs in the winter.

[I.rar]

lol.

All year long...

x2

One of the joys of living in southern Florida. Unless we have one of those ridiculously bad cold snaps like earlier this year.

x3.

[roadwarrior]

Year around in Tennessee. In fact, January generally produces

the biggest smallmouth of the year!

8-)

[Goose52]

Year around in Tennessee. In fact, January generally produces

the biggest smallmouth of the year!

8-)

Hmmm - not necessarily year round up on the Cumberland plateau in Tennessee as evidenced by the photo taken this past January ;D

Anyway, I fish when the water isn't hard. My lakes iced over, then thawed, 3 times this past winter.

[Grey Wolf]

November.

[Nitrofreak]

All year round.

I am lucky enough to live close to a lake that was developed for a nuclear power plant.

Even in the dead of winter I have seen water temps as high as 67 to 70 degrees and some have said it even gets warmer than that.

[dh88hms]

I generally will fish until November 1.

[fishfordollars]

Year round.

[Blue Streak]

I fish as long as I can, at least until the weather gets bad and stays that way. It gets pretty cold here in the winter.

[Raul]

From Jan 1st all the way down to December 31st.

[BASSclary]

All year round.

I am lucky enough to live close to a lake that was developed for a nuclear power plant.

Even in the dead of winter I have seen water temps as high as 67 to 70 degrees and some have said it even gets warmer than that.

Lake Anna?

[Gale1980]

fish till it freezes then head to power plant lakes the only thing that slows me is my sons hockey season

[BASSclary]

All year, i even fish Christmas morning while i wait for my family to get up.

[grimboy]

All year around.The water is always soft.

[CCP]

year round

[ww2farmer]

From ice out till  ice up................then it's onto the ice, yes you can catch bass through the ice.

[bass or bass ?]

Year round, although I prefer fall, winter, spring. Summer is just too freakin' hot!! I only do night fishing anymore in the summer. 110 to 118 daytime degrees is more than I can handle anymore.

[slonezp]

March 1st when the first cooling lake opens here in northern IL until Thanksgiving give or take. That's about the time the ice starts forming.