So up in Ny we finally had some decent weather out of the 30 degree temps and the lakes all unfroze and the sun has been out woohoo! So of course I had to take advantage and went out picking apart the banks with a spinnerbait and crankbaits and just crushed them! Around 25 total and a few nice chunkers. 

Congratulations on catching your first bass of 2018.

25, d**n, that is crazy.  I've never come close to those numbers here in the PNW. Thatd be so fun, congrats.

congrats and hopefully just a start of a good year 

Congrats.

 

Same here. I went to a local pond after work. Got a bunch of bass, a decent pickerel, and a few crappie. You are right about the crankbaits too. I notice the fish were holding pretty shallow and switched from an xrap to a squarebill and crushed them. 85 degrees today got the wheels turning and the reaction bit going.

 

BTW you are way smarter than I wearing your sun gear. I went out in a tank top and got roasted.

2 hours ago, BuzzHudson19c said:

Congrats.

 

Same here. I went to a local pond after work. Got a bunch of bass, a decent pickerel, and a few crappie. You are right about the crankbaits too. I notice the fish were holding pretty shallow and switched from an xrap to a squarebill and crushed them. 85 degrees today got the wheels turning and the reaction bit going.

 

BTW you are way smarter than I wearing your sun gear. I went out in a tank top and got roasted.

Yeah I tried filling first and using jerkbaits and nothing, changed over to a lipless and got one on the first cast so I had to continue, an yesh the 85 degree sun deft calls for sun gear. 

2 hours ago, StrikePrince said:

25, d**n, that is crazy.  I've never come close to those numbers here in the PNW. Thatd be so fun, congrats.

Oh yeah I didn’t wanna stop but of course.. had to go into work yucky , this same lake last year though I got my PB best with numbers.  72 bass in around  8 hour fishing day 

Congrats on the first bass of 2018.  I can't imagine having to wait until May for the first one.  I caught my first bass of 2018 on January 1st.

1 hour ago, BCline said:

Congrats on the first bass of 2018.  I can't imagine having to wait until May for the first one.  I caught my first bass of 2018 on January 1st.

Yeah I usually start being able to head out in March but this spring was horrible, lakes were still frozen up

untill first or second week in April