Let me say that I love fishing anytime..mid summer...mid winter thru ice. But like everybody I have times that I prefer. My favorite time of year to fish is spring when the water temps are high 40s to high 50s with stained water and overcast conditions. Love throwing a trap or spinner bait catching those prespawn fattys. What about you guys?

I catch the most fish in late spring and the biggest in the winter.

 

A hot summer evening fishing plastic worms or topwater, or a warm fall day throwing inlines.

   I love the spring, too. But I like the fall more. The bite in the lakes dies before the bite in the rivers, and I have a high old time with spinners and spinnerbaits, cranks and blades in the rivers. The ones in spring might be a "fatty", but the ones in fall are a lean, mean, lure-chompin' machine.    ?   jj

Pre spawn in mid November to majority of post spawn in mid April. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

Dawn.  Hot summer morning.  Work some morning topwater and then troll the banks, stumps, points. brush piles and laydowns with a jig or t-rigged senko.  This is biding my time, you see.  I'm waiting for the sun to go high and the fish to go under those heavy muck mats.  Especially the shaded ones.  Then it's frog time.  Most will have put the frog away by then.  That's when I break it out!

Post spawn. I think its the easiest time of the year to pattern bass, at least where I live .

I'm a high school teacher, and 5 am from mid June through August is the highlight of my year. 

Late spring/early summer. Warm enough to enjoy the day without broiling. Catching bass on almost anything cast. 

Wind-less sunny mornings in May are pretty high on my list ~

A-Jay

 

Any time around here the water is upper 40’s and higher . I  just love being on the bank or water. But I guess spring more just because it’s starting up again .

Light snow going sideways on a highland reservoir , clear water 

Pre Spawn water warming 55 to 58 degrees for numbers of big bass.

Weather fronts are part of this seasonal and light rain and wind goes with the territory, storms heavy rain with high wind Stay home.

I enjoy mild summer nights for overall good fishing.
Tom

Last week of March/first week of April. All within the same week in different years. 

I think my preference directly ties to the fact that I live up north and our lakes are locked up with ice for months. That first wave of fish that really push up in spring are special to me because its the first bass I've caught in months..its a sign of things to come. Plus alot of my biggest fish have come in cold water be it spring or fall. I caught 4 largemouth over 6lbs this year...all of them in 55 or under water temps. 3 in April/may 1 in October.

3 hours ago, scaleface said:

Post spawn. I think its the easiest time of the year to pattern bass, at least where I live .

yes

I love it all.

 

But if we were to groundhog day one specific time it would be the mid summer weed flipping bite with a big jig or heavy tungsten Texas rig. That never gets old.

Spring, especially April and May.  It tend to catch my biggest fish then and the most. 

Winter, usually November-March. Takes away a lot of my lake options, but the water is a whole lot less crowded usually. We'll see this year though. With so many more people fishing, and I finally decided to take weekends off next spring to try and fish kayak tournaments, which means my days off will be on weekends instead of weekdays like normal, so the empty lakes might not be the case anymore.

During the dead of summer when most people are complaining that the fishing isn't good, I'm having the best time, catching the most and the biggest fish of the year. The infamous spring and fall are my version of summer: fishing isn't good, it's not greatly productive, and lots of dinks when they actually are biting.

Spring. March through May. I usually fish afternoons. Overcast sky with a light breeze. Numbers and quality.

I usually catch the biggest fish in summer though.

Give me summer. I catch the biggest late spring and early fall and I like the reduced crowds but I like being warm and I like the numbers in summer.

Mid-summer night, deep water structure, full moon on the horizon, gentle southern breeze, Hoot Owl in the distance, that solid thump on a jig!

 

Here in northern Illinois I'll take the last three weeks of May, cloudy with a slight wind, some rain moving in.

9 hours ago, ironbjorn said:

During the dead of summer when most people are complaining that the fishing isn't good, I'm having the best time, catching the most and the biggest fish of the year. The infamous spring and fall are my version of summer: fishing isn't good, it's not greatly productive, and lots of dinks when they actually are biting.

I agree 100%

And you can add getting hung up in a passing shower. Love it, and the fish love it.