I love when Jake and Pops out in California catch bass. 

First time out in a while.  Didn’t think the weather would cooperate at first as it was raining and the wind was brutal.  
 

Once I got to the spot the rain let up but the wind really made me regret not bringing my spinning rod.  You can see it a bit in this first picture but it really doesn’t do it justice.  

Fished for about an hour and only got one bite that happened so close to the bank that it took me by surprise and I couldn’t get the hook in em.

 

Disappointed I started heading back to where I parked my car and made a few more casts on my way.  Since I got bite shallow I targeted those areas with my parting casts and wouldn’t you know it, now I’m on the board in 2024.

Creek was up a foot when I arrived at daylight.It was tough paddling upstream.They only wanted a crankbait today.Managed 8.Biggest was 3.6 lbs

 

 

 

Red Eye Shad got it done at the pond today.  Lost a really big one on the way in and a 2-3 lber on the way in but happy to have caught these ones.  Managed 4 little guys at the pond on the buzzbait at sunset.  Bite totally shut down once the sun got too low.

 

 

Best one from yesterday trying to figure out the bite on Lake Okeechobee. 
 

Behold the maw on ^this beast.^

Four more Spots today. Two on a micro jig and two on the Ned. 

@Dwight Hottle  Awesome fish!   You live a charmed Bass fishing live.

2 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

You live a charmed Bass fishing live.

Said the pot to the kettle. 😂😉

Cold front hit hard and had the north wind stirring everything this morning but managed to persuade a couple little guys.  

 

 

Both on the red eye shad.  Gonna get out there after Jake's basketball game and see if I can't find ole Nadine.  I am pretty positive she's gonna be eating around that time.  😎😎😎🎣🎣🎣

They are moving up.  Surface temps 46.  Last week they were all 12-15.  This morning everything eating was 4-10 FOW.  Blade bait and finesse jig got smaller ones.  Biggest were on slow hopping Rage Bug.

@Choporoz That bug sure gets bit. My favorite jig trailer. Claws need to be beefed up a bit where they join the body though. I have too many bluegill/redear bite them off.

 

2 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Cold front hit hard and had the north wind stirring everything this morning

You think it hit you hard - we got 4-5 inches of snow in ~6-7hrs. Will be gone by Monday or Tuesday though. ~25°F today, ~40° tomorrow & ~50° Monday. Should be fishing Tuesday or Wednesday here. 😂

Went back to the creek.Caught my biggest so far of 2024.Not a big one compared to the bucketmouths posted here but I was happy even though I don't look it lol.

4.62 lbs

 

 

@Creek Pirate: That's a beauty anywhere.

 

@Choporoz: Wow!

 

20 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Said the pot to the kettle. 😂😉

 

You tell him, Tim! However, I don't think of Dwight and Alex as charred pots. They shine like buffed stainless steel. 

 

1 hour ago, RipzLipz said:

You think it hit you hard - we got 4-5 inches of snow in ~6-7hrs.

 

It's snowing here right now and will drop to 13 degrees tonight, but I can feel winter's grip slipping. I saw an area of open water a couple days ago on a local pond. Yeah, water that was wet!

26 minutes ago, Creek Pirate said:

Went back to the creek.Caught my biggest so far of 2024.Not a big one compared to the bucketmouths posted here but I was happy even though I don't look it lol.

4.62 lbs

 

 

Beautiful fish, congrats on the pig!

@Creek Pirate Nice smallie bud!

 

@ol'crickety Every day is getting closer to piggie time! 🐷🐽🐷🐽🐷🐽

Just one quick one before chores this morning.  Bout to head back for the sunset showdown.  Hoping to get into a bigger one.

 

 

It was fun catching one on a discontinued strike King color though.

Did a little snow bassin' this afternoon. Winter had the audacity to show itself the past two days. Except for one hard cold spell a month ago we've been very fortunate this year. Just caught three with two being counters. Kinda tricky walking the banks so was a bit limiting. Just felt good to get bit.

 

41 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

Just caught three with two being counters.

 

Nope. You didn't catch three. You caught six, with four being counters. There's a thing called Snow Math, where the snow doubles all bass caught. 

38 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Nope. You didn't catch three. You caught six, with four being counters. There's a thing called Snow Math, where the snow doubles all bass caught. 

Is that anything like voodoo economics?

Voodoo economics is make-believing. Snow math is snow real.

First double hookup in quite a while...

 

Ned was the key bait again.

 

Go figure. Fish of the day was a rainbow on a Ned. 😆

Jumped in my buddy’s boat today, slow going. I caught 1.5 he caught one……. 😂. Some snow on the mountains at noon, gone by evening and I bout got a sunburn 

Massive high pressure dominating the eastern half of the country bringing high blue skies, light north winds, and high barometer readings. Wasn’t sure how bad it would affect things, but didn’t have my hopes too high. So I was pleasantly surprised when I got 4 keeper largemouth, 3 of them between 3-3.5 pounds and then a 16 incher. Also scored a couple more 2 lb. plus crappie. 
 

 

 

 

 

Very nice crappie!