Slow day under blue skies, north winds and post frontal conditions. Water stained and just 40 degrees here. Nabbed a few, but had to go out to the base breakline in nearly 20' of water to do it. Probably change lakes up next trip.

 

Looking more like the bite is gonna continue to get better. I found 55 degree water at the top of the tide and my best fish, this healthy 4.5lber ate an Evergreen chatterbait...

Not a great day, but not bad for 3.5 hours of late morning-early afternoon fishing. Caught one on a Zoom Trick TR and 7 on a 5” Senko WR. These three were the biggest. 
 

 

As no one else fishing this pond caught anything, I cannot and will not complain! 

Caught me some dinks this weekend and that's it. Had one heavy fish hooked Saturday in my kayak on a jerkbait but it pulled off. Dogs got their first trip out Sunday in the warm wind and were loving it.

Caught a nice one this weekend.  Local lake is very hit or miss when it's this cold...Usually a miss, so felt great to get this one .  

 

Delta craw Red eyed shad and Red craw Ratl-Trap working today. 6 fish, nothing big. Did get 2 on yellow and black  spinner bait. 80degrees here.

Shout out to @roadwarrior for putting me on some nice smallmouth, including my PB. Thank you,sir! I don’t have a digital scale, but my spring scale said it was between 4.75 and 5 lbs. I put a more thorough write up at Heading to Pickwick Tuesday for anyone who’s interested...or bored. ? 
 

PB smallmouth

 

~3.5 lbs

 

another ~3.5 lbs

Went for a short trip after work this morning in the gentle 30mph Kansas breeze. A 6th Sense Provoke did most of the damage but a homemade bladed jig got big fish honors.

19 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Went for a short trip after work this morning in the gentle 30mph Kansas breeze. A 6th Sense Provoke did most of the damage but a homemade bladed jig got big fish honors.

 

That 30mph "Breeze" looks chilly! The fish didn't seem to mind! Nice fish!

2 minutes ago, Biglittle8 said:

 

Not at all, it was almost 70 degrees outside when I got off work at 6am.

Just now, Bluebasser86 said:

Not at all, it was almost 70 degrees outside when I got off work at 6am.

Sorry, I assumed it was still cold there.  I work graveyard also, works for fishing!

Today was dink day, did get this semi-dink!

Went out this Saturday and Wednesday with a friend, and we caught some fish.  Most of them came on a jerkbait(Lucky Craft Pointer, Megabass 110+1), but one came on a Megabass dark sleeper. 

We caught a total of 18 bass and two crappie.

caught 6 spots this afternoon. these 2 came on my first and second casts of the day. swt (52) had risen a good four degrees in the last ten days and even warmer towards the back of some pockets. the wind was blowing like a freight train and i had to anchor down in order to stay on some of my brush piles. life is good.

Slow go this morning. Surprising as it was 63° at sunrise and about 75° when I made my last cast before noon. Tried a Whopper Plopper and a Megabass Popmax on top. WP was dead; got one swirl on the Popmax. Caught two dinks on a WR Senko #956 and two more on a Zoom Trick in watermelon red. Then I “caught” another bass that was latched onto the tail of the Trick that was a gigantic 2.5” long lol. He must have been seriously starving! 
 

Tried a Daiwa/GYBC Neko Macho Neko rigged and got nothing. Decided to try it weightless TR and that picked up the action. Caught three more. Nothing special but still a fun morning. 
 

First fish of 2021 for me. 45 degrees and the lake had ice on 2/3rds.

 

Ok, so this isn’t a trophy lol. But...it is significant. I went back out this afternoon from the bank, with the intention of fishing either new baits, or ones that I’ve tried with no success. Was only out an hour and had several strikes but no hooksets. Until this guy. On a Fat IKA. The one bait I said I had basically given up one. Glad I tried it again! 
 

3 hours ago, Nelson Wormefeller said:

First fish of 2021 for me. 45 degrees and the lake had ice on 2/3rds.

 

NICE! Where in ny?

This 4-12 lb hit a crankbait about 20 feet out from the bank in about 3 feet of water.

One on a 8" magnum worm rigged Texas style, one on a Rattle-trap. 

Got a couple out of one my church ponds today on  theBig bites pumkin craw...

Couple of smallies today. Biffle bug. Water visibility was bad. More than likely on beds.

Rained on me basically all day Saturday and the wind blew pretty good, but I wanted to get some practice fishing from my kayak in less than favorable conditions to get ready for tournament season, wish granted. Caught over 40 fish but never could get a big one, biggest was right at 18". Jerkbaits, traps, bladed jig, spinnerbait, jig, and first frog fish of the year even. Water temps were 50-51.8.