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I'm sorry that I can't help you with the unusual spots on the bass but I noticed that you said something about depressurising his swim bladder. I haven't heard of this before and was wondering if this is something I should know about for returning any deep water bass after catching one.

Earlier this year my craziest catch was actually one of my lures. While fishing a public lake from the bank one evening I lost a Zara Spook in some brush and it was getting dark so I decided to leave it. The next day I returned to the lake and decided to go in after my lure. It was only about ten feet from the bank and the water was only about eighteen inches deep. My first step in the water resulted in my foot sinking in the mud pretty fast so I thought to myself "I'd better hurry". The next couple of steps got me to the spook and after I had it in my hand I realized I was sunk in the mud past my knees and still sinking fast. After a brief battle with the mud I was back on the bank with my beloved spook in hand. It's funny now but it was pretty dad gum scary while I was in the water sinking and wondering if I was going to make it out.

I didn't know it was that good either. I've only had a chance to fish there once and didn't fare nearly that well. It was in the middle of July though and was extremely hot. I did try fishing yesterday with no luck. I went to the two public lakes I normally fish and both were still frozen over so I went to a nearby river and would have had just as much luck at the frozen lakes as I did there. Oh well, I'll try again today or tomorrow. Thanks for the replies everyone.

I haven't ever tried bass fishing in the winter but intend to this year. I was just wondering how cold is too cold for fishing in the winter. Right now here in Missouri we have had quite a bit of cold weather and I'm sure the water is cold but tomorrow it's looking like it might get up to around fifty degrees and I was thinking about hitting the lake tomorrow.