Is Silver ice free?  

Two dink brown trout and a massive strike on a jigging spoon on the city dump today. Froze my butt off, but it was nice to knock the rust off. Now scooping all the poop from the dog from this winter. So much poop!

9 hours ago, nosdog2 said:

Is Silver ice free?  

Yes.

 

Spent about 6 hours out there today in my buddies boat. When we got there at 11ish, surface water temps were 39-42 depending on where you went. That was also on slick calm water. Once a little breeze kicked up, and slightly mixed the ever so slightly warmer top crust in, we noticed surface temps actually went DOWN to 38  as the day went on.

 

Fishing was not on fire for us. I caught one 4lb smallmouth, one 2.5 lb largemouth, and one 30" pike. My buddy also had the same trio....a 3lb smallie, a 3lb largemouth, and a slightly smaller pike.

 

Both smallmouth were caught on silver buddy style home made blade baits, my largemouth on a swim jig, his largemouth on a lipless crank, my pike on a lipless crank, and his on a jerkbait.

 

I was nice to get out after this extended winter, but after seeing the current conditions, getting my boat out is less urgent than it was this morning LOL. It's not going to break my heart if I don't get it out until next weekend or so.

Cool deal!  I am coming up in a couple weeks, still undecided if I am going to drag the boat up or not.  I might, depending on the weather, it SHOULD put that water temperature right in the sweet spot by then.  

 

Decent morning for me on johnsons creek after work for a couple hours. 

 

Visited the upper Hudson River near exit 20 of the Northway on Saturday. Fished from shore. Slow jerkbait and Dragging and deadsticking a Carolina rigged Zoom Trick worm. Nothing. Water temps were in the high thirties.

 

I went to a local pond on Sunday. I saw schools of Sunfish and a few Pickerel. Dangled a jig in front of them for close to an hour without anything other than a nibble. An hour of sight fishing sunnies, this is how desperate I am for the first fish of 2018! 

 

Some of my local waters were stocked yesterday.

 

I caught 3 brook trout after dinner last night. Not bad for a short 1 hour fishing trip.

My boat is out and ready to go. Probably after work sometime this week I'll drop it in and fart around

My boat went in the water after work tonight for the first time in 2018. It still floats, everything (important) still works. I fished one area for about 45 mins before it started getting dark. One walleye, and one  upper 3lb smallmouth.

Smallmouth are hitting good on Oneita! 

 I went out for about 3.5 hours afterwork last night. 

 

Caught 6 largemouth, 2 pike, and a walleye. No smallmouth.....although the largemouth were all in smallmouth spots, and caught while fishing for smallmouth. Four of them were "cookie cutter" 3.75lbers, the other two were small keepers.

Boat is probably coming out this weekend but did some shore fishing the other day. First time in 583 days! Man it felt good to hold a fishing pole again! Had a few hits but didnt land any fish. No big deal they were just dinks but it was great to be out again. Shoulder was hurting that night but I was able to cast pretty well so that's one hurdle cleared. I think the main challenge will be getting the boat on the trailer with this shoulder and if it will hold up to a 12+ hour day of casting. Looking forward to finding out!

Bass were chasing blue gill hard in the Seneca cayuga Canal so naturally I threw a bull gill swim bait and on the 3rd or 4th cast this fatty crushed it in about 2fow. Lost several others on a savage gear blue gill after I casted off my bull gill. I’m really tempted to drive the 1.5hrs back there tomorrow and hit em again. 

 

I went out for about 3.5 hours after work again on Thursday night.......I am usually off Thursdays, but I have to cover for a guy out recovering from surgery for a few weeks. I volunteered, they didn't ask.

 

Anyways, the fishing. Not bad, but not on fire yet. I caught seven bass, and 2 pike. 6 of the bass were largemouth, including one over 5lbs, and two more over 4. And one lone 3lb smallmouth. Water temps have jumped up quick, almost as fast as I have ever seen them go from high 30's to low 50's on the lake, and mid 60's in the backwater areas, but the mass waves of bass are still slow to show up.....or if they are there, I am not there when they are really chomping.

The water temps are sky rocketing, but the fishing continues to only get slightly better. I fished from 7:30 am yesterday to about 4:30 pm, with an hour or so for lunch/bathroom break. I caught 11 bass. Not exactly a barn burner. 

 

I started off fishing smallies, and after two hours and only two 2.5lbers to show for it, I switched to largemouth. They were not on fire either, by lunch I only caught 3 of those. After lunch, the bite picked up, but only slightly. I caught 6 after lunch. All largemouth. Size, for largemouth was ok today. With a 5-14, 4-1, 3-13, 3-10, and a 3-3 the highlights....I just wish there were more of them.

The water in the upper Hudson River is still in the 40's and the current in strong with all the recent rains. Some snow is still visible on the tops of the mountains that surround the river in that area. I saw one LMB on Saturday and that was it.

 

I went to my local pond on Sunday. It was rainy but the Pickerel didn't mind. Got three of them in a short two hour walk and fish session.

Fished for about 3 hours last night...targeted smallmouth the entire time.

 

Not fast and furious, but the four I caught were decent. A 4-15, 4-11, 4-7, and 4-4

Went out for 2 hours after work this morning didn’t do half bad. 

 

I fished about 2.5 hours Thursday night before dark. Did ok. Caught 8 largemouth, including two over 5.

 

Nosdog was the hero of Silver Lake thursday, as he was whacking on my pets pretty good before I got there. But I'll let him tell you about his day.

 

That brings us to today....................Ladys and Gentlemen, I have lived my entire life around this lake, fished it for 30+ years, and today................was the best day I have EVER HAD on the water there. BAR NONE.

 

Over 100 keeper bass were put in the boat between 9am and 5pm, of those 100+, 11...................yes 11 of them were hung on a scale and weighed 5+ lbs. 

 

But the real highlight of the day wasn't 11 5lbers, the 100+ bass caught, OR the 6lb 2oz lunker largemouth of the day. Nope. It was a fish of a lifetime for this 800 acre mud puddle/over sized pond...........a new PB for me, a 6lb 5oz. SMALLMOUTH. That's a tank of a smallmouth for an inland lake...especially my little lake.

 

I am having a heck of a time posting pictures here...I used to do it all the time. What's changed? And why can't I do it now?

https://postimages.org/

 

Copy and paste the direct link.

 

11 hours ago, ww2farmer said:

I am having a heck of a time posting pictures here...I used to do it all the time. What's changed? And why can't I do it now? 

I had difficulties several months ago and it was related to file size.  I was taking pictures with my cheap digital Kodak camera and downloading them to my PC and then uploading them to BassResource from my PC. The file size was approx. 2MB per picture; so these took up too much space and were rejected.  Once I compressed the file size down to approx. 96KB per picture, I had no problems.

 

I'm using a PC; so the way I do it, is to import the original picture into a Word doc.  Then compress it down and save the new compressed file image back as a picture.  This saves a lot of data space, as you will go from approximately 2MB to 96KB per picture.

 

I'm not a IT expert, that much I know and will admit to the world.  I may try the link that JFrancho posted, which may prove to be a better solution to what I'm doing; however, I know what I'm doing is working.  What my very limited knowledge of the issue indicates to me is that the problem I was having was related to file size.  Hopefully this will help someone and not throw things off track and confuse the issue more.

 The previously mentioned smallmouth.

3 hours ago, ww2farmer said:

 The previously mentioned smallmouth.

That is a pig of a smallmouth! My goodness.