When Are You Done For The Year?

[Teh]

At what time during the fall/winter do you hang it up until next year (if you do at all)? Just curious....

[FL_Sharpshooter]

I don't. I live in Florida .

[Teh]

Man you guys are so lucky...at least I say that now when it starts freezing here, but I don't think that mid-summer, haha. I will still go out as long as the weather is decent for fishin'.

[Siebert Outdoors]

I stop when the water turns to ice.

[Bluebasser86]

Never, I have 2 powerplant lakes an hour away and if it's a mild winter the river never freezes and I hit the deep holes for big blue cats.

[Goose52]

I stop when the water turns to ice.

X2.

The ice in my part of TN never gets thick enough for ice fishing so when the water gets hard, you're done...for a while.

The good thing is that depending on temps, our water can ice-up and ice-out several times over the winter - giving you some opportunities in the middle of the winter to get a few fish. Last year, we iced up in mid-December, but that melted by the end of the month. I caught a bass on New Years Eve, and another on New Years Day (2011), then the lakes iced-up again until near the end of January. Iced-up again for a week or so in mid-February, then final ice-out by the end of the month.

[Hi Salenity]

December 31

Actually January & February are the months it's too cold for me.

[NorcalBassin]

Also 12/31 and I'll start right back up 1/1... that's when the pigs are chasing trout here in CA.

[basser89]

11:59:59PM December 31. I start back up as soon as I get my license in January.

[Midnight Splash2]

I just keep fishing and take the good with the bad. The season is open all year for me.

[A-Jay]

When my casts start to bounce, which may be in a few weeks.

A-Jay

[Hound_dog]

I'm another one of those year round fisherman. Maybe let the boat sit a day or two to hit the woods to bag a deer or two but other than that I fish year round.

[Jim_M]

Arizona 365

[38 Super Fan]

I'll still be at it this winter.

[NoBassPro]

If you're talking bass, I'm pretty much done for the year. I'll head out a few more times looking for that one fat muskie I never seem to catch, then not do much until ice season rolls around. Mainly target panfish - cuz man they taste good through the ice- then have another short break until season opens. Do a little steelhead fishing in that time frame, but not much.

[jeb2]

Since I moved from MN to Ark 6 years ago, my fishing season has become year round. And some of the best fishing of the year happens in Jan and Feb when the big fish that suspend deep out in the mid-lake areas come up relatively shallow. Last winter was the first winter that I saw any ice to speak of on Beaver Lake, and it was bad enough to stop me from fishing for a couple of weeks. We have a power plant lake an hour away, though, so not all was lost.

[RiverFisher13]

This year has been the latest i've ever fished up here. but about now will be the latest i ever fish. Instead ill be in the woods trapping, most years anyway.

[grimlin]

Looks like I'm already done here in Michigan. Too busy with work and family now. I'd be lucky to get out one or two more before it ices over on the lakes. My hands get cold way too fast and it really isn't much fun or even really worth my time going out at that point.

Usually I'm done right before Halloween.October,November and December are usually busy months for me.Then I can't start fishing for bass again till Bass Season*(C & R only) opens here which is usually on the last weekend of April.

[SirSnookalot]

Never stop down here, only the target species change, I'm starting to rev it up now, fish more than I do in the summer.

[Hooligan]

When I can no longer break ice to get to open water, I go south for a few days at a time.

[Crestliner2008]

As soon as the ponds freeze up, I'm done for the year. this should occur pretty soon, as our water temps are in the 40's right now and night time air temps are in the 20's. Suppose to be a warm up this coming week, so we may last another 2 - 3 weeks at best.

Good time to clean fishing reels & rods and get tackle re-organized for the April thaw. I do *** you folks from warmer climes.

[Sam]

December.

May do some pond fishing in the winter or fish the Hot Side of Lake Anna once the nuclear plant sitting on the earthquake fault is back in operation and the water warms into the 70's.

Start again in March.

["BRB"]

I hang it up just until I get some deer meat in the freezer. Then I'm right back out there. Until I get low on the deer meat. Then its back to the woods.

[Bankbeater]

I go year round with breaks here and there for ice and really cold air temps.

[tholmes]

I stop when the water turns to ice.

^ This. I'll fish as long as there's open water, but when it's iced over, I'll be at home.

Tom