Winter sucks?

Winter time is the time to??????

Refresh and go through your log book to plan your fishing trips plus to see how your past trips had varied success using different baits. It gives us time to think and regroup.

I watched fishing videos too so I'm still on the edge.

It's also time to clean the tackle boxes and lures to wash off any unwanted bad oders.

Time to ice fish while the ice is on if your jonesn to fish that bad.

Winter time is extra time to play with the kids, trains, slot cars, what ever you like there are card games, scrabble etc.

Winter is boring only if you let it be boring.

Almost time to clean and lube your reels, change your line and restock your tackle box?

Need more to do?

Clean the tackle room, clean the garage, clean the basement, organize your tackle?

Go checkout Wal-Mart, Dicks sporting goods etc for pre spring sales.

Order from Sieberts Outdoors new jigs etc. To beat the rush.

Now tell me your still sitting here reading this? Get up you have lots to do.

The Salmon fishing is first.

Then it's trout, they taste good plus the kittens love fresh fish.

Then comes bass fishing if your not tired from the winter chores.

See you out there. God bless, bill

Btw there is plenty to read here too. Nothing wrong to learn more about having more success with certain baits, learn about new baits too, refresh?

I'm building a power plant lake so I can fish it.......

Clean reels.  Rebuild rods.  Buy gear.  Rinse and repeat till the weather is warm enough

Ice fishing and lots of sleep.

Read books, organize the tackle bag, clean the reels, buy new stuff.  Rinse and repeat as many times as needed.

I try to accomplish the majority of the larger items on the honey-do list. That way they're outta the way during warmer weather.

 

Spend time with the kids.

 

Get better at another hobby - I practice music a lot, I'm a musician.

 

Save up those accrued paid-time-off days at work so I can use em' when it's warm.

 

Of course clean the gear, replace old/broken stuff, organize.

 

Wait....wait....and wait some more....it'll be here soon!

This my 3rd full winter since getting "hooked" on fishing ... Here is my "winter list" ...

 

1 - Learn more - Catch up on reading, fishing shows.  I record them and collect the magazines during the season.  I read them when I travel for work and over the winter.  I also buy at least 1 book to learn more.

2 - This site ... nuf said there.

3 - Fishing related hobbies.  - I LOVE making jigs from scratch.  Pour, paint, skirt.  I also make spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, swim jigs and chatterbaits.  I mess around with small batches when I feel like it at night OR on the weekend.

4 - Organize tackle.  Like my entire tacklebag from scratch.  

5 - NEW - Learning to tie bucktail jigs.  Just because.

 

 

Honestly ... this covers me for a lot of "down time" NOT fishing.  It does not replace it but I found joy/satisfaction in doing this stuff and even more pleasure in catching with the stuff.

 

Good luck!  I truly feel your pain!!!

As always -

 

1. I'm currently researching, watching, reading (books, magazines and forums).

2. Right now I'm seriously researching on how to build my own rods.  The few customs I've seen has given me motivation.  I'll probably get my equipment and first kit for my birthday this year.  I want to continue investigate all the intricacies and what I can do. 

3. Lots of browsing at BPS, ***, local tackle shops..etc.

4. Tinkering with my tackle and inventory.

5. Cleaning my reels and rods.

6. Testing different pairs.

7. Updating my reels lines and inventorying the line amount on my excel sheet.

There's lots of good things about Winter.

Number one:......

Let me get back with you on that.

Hootie

There's lots of good things about Winter.

Number one:......

Let me get back with you on that.

Hootie

 

You rock Hootie!  Bottom line you are spot on!

 

Hootie is great, he's one of my.  I think he'd be a "Hoot" to fish with for a day. 

It's been a mild winter surprisingly still we got February to go.

 

Basically, what I do during winter?

 

I look at my 2015 locations for the tournament season and look on the maps of the locations and research them.

 

Organize my tackle for 2015 season.  

 

Build jigs. Clean my reels, and fill my spools for the specific application.

 

Hang out on Bass Resource.

 

Other than fishing related -

 

Party and hang out with my friends.

but right now in pa its like 30

30 that's it? Still shorts weather

ICE FISHING!

 

It's a whole new set of tackle you get to buy.  The northern bait monkey doesn't hibernate in winter!

 

 

Tight lines,

Bob

Visit lots of breweries and wineries, haha. Travel to other countries and islands I haven't been to yet. Anything to escape the cold hell. Avoid looking for new fishing stuff to buy so I don't spend a fortune because I'm bored.

 

And I am in PA also....this morning it was a grand 2 degrees out.

One other great suggestion: Drive out to Blue Balls and Intercourse and get some refrigerator magnets with their names on them and mail them to your parents, brothers and sisters and grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

 

They will love them!

Ya forgot a few others in PA Sam.... I dunno how close they are to ya tho to get some magnets lol, Venus and Mars are alot Closer than people think too...

When I lived in Spokane, Washington where the lakes ice over every winter, I usually spent my free time doing fishing-related things like wrapping rods, cleaning and lubricating reels, sharpening hooks, tightening hook hanger screws, and things like that. Worked on the boat and trailer at times, too. Not as much fun as bass fishing, but it sure beat shoveling snow. Glad I live in Texas now, though.....

I been ice fishing! I'm in lower Bucks County " Levittown area" and have had the pleasure of joining a buddy for perch and pike fishing at a private lake. Takes some getting used to but I ditched the tip ups and jigged most of the time. Still I'm Jones - in to get my yak out and catch some spring monsters!

I have a garage that i keep heated, so winter goes by relatively quick since I'm working on the boat, maintaining the trailer, organizing tackle, and making jigs. I usually run out of stuff to do about March. That last little bit of winter seems like an eternity though. Pretty sure Id have a tough time deciding to do do my preventative maintenance on the boat and trailer if i could just go fishing instead.

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

A-Jay

 

 

That is about how I feel about winter right about now. Tomorrow morning -20 to -25....

That is about how I feel about winter right about now. Tomorrow morning -20 to -25....

 

I hear ya - that's been the air temps over night & waking up here too.

 

A-Jay

we have been unusually warm off and on this winter.....yesterday afternoon was frigid with howling winds....today it will barely be above freezing after very cold start.

then tomorrow it starts to warm with a high in the mid 60s and Saturday forecasting close to a record 78 degrees......weather roller coaster.

 

nothing bad like the northeast.....man I feel for those folks.

I deal the best way I know how.

 

Winter has always sucked. Problem is that most of us bassfisherguys north of the Mason-Dixon line forget about the 1'st of May that our brains have been frozen solid since Nov. Then the trees get green, the ice is gone, someone next door throws a steak on the grill, the stack of bait monkey dung that we purchased in Feb. is waiting to be used and we  ( because our brain is still a little bit frozen and will be until it hits 90 in the shade in July) say hey," lets go fishing" We haul all that dung out to the boat that we paid $500 to store since Nov. and shove off. Most of us have a good enough summer to keep the bass fishing fires burning and then, low and behold, "Is it really November again" Rinse and repeat until you die. Why, you ask would a yankee keep doing this? For one of two reasons, ie: either our brains really don't thaw in the summer or we love it up here and wouldn't change a thing.