3 hours ago, Log Catcher said:

Guess I'll think about winterizing and putting my boat to bed for the winter

i put my chest waders to bed last nite and broke out the electric blanket.

I pulled the quilt out of the closet a couple days ago.

If any of y’all frozen bassheads make it to TN this winter I can put you on some smallies 

20 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

If any of y’all frozen bassheads make it to TN this winter I can put you on some smellies

You Sir, are very generous ~

A-Jay

29 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

You Sir, are very generous ~

A-Jay

Hahaha! Thanks for catching that. Clearly, Siri is not a fisherman 

16 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

If any of y’all frozen bassheads make it to TN this winter I can put you on some smallies 

Wife and i would take you up on that only if you pay for my gas bill round trip?

5 hours ago, throttleplate said:

Wife and i would take you up on that only if you pay for my gas bill round trip?

Got a Prius?  Hahaha

With the big boat already put away for the winter, of course we have had some lovely, warm and dry weather here the last several days. 
Got the mower out one last time and gave the yard a good haircut, and mulched up all the leaves while they were nice and dry. Sure is nice at our new place for leaves, very few and they’re all pretty small so I can mulch em all up in one pass. 
Take that, stupid leaf rake!

 

Not really a surprise ~

Just a heads up: lake effect snow is on the horizon for the upcoming week,

especially inland over A-Jay's house, as well as portions of eastern upper Michigan.

Some generally accumulations are expected.

Here we go.

A-Jay

17 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

Take that, stupid leaf rake!

Raking and bagging leaves does get old.  But at least there's an end to it after all the leaves have fallen.  I mulch most of mine too but one area is really matted from a large maple on the property line and I have to rake and bag those.

Just finished draining all the garden hoses and winterizing the RV. Lol

 

Away to deer camp for 2 weeks and if weather permits, back on the water in December but have to at least have mid day temps into the 50's.......not impossible here. 

Thank heavens we have the hot side of lake Anna to take us through the winter.  As long as we can get there we can fish it.   There’s just something magical about throwing a top water in a snowstorm. ?

38 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Thank heavens we have the hot side of lake Anna to take us through the winter.  As long as we can get there we can fish it.   There’s just something magical about throwing a top water in a snowstorm. ?

Was just there Saturday and heading back in December.....Anna that is.

Getting ready for the chaos ~

A-Jay

33 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Getting ready for the chaos ~

A-Jay

I want some of that down here to slow things down. 

10 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I want some of that down here to slow things down. 

I'll see what I can do ~ No promises though.

On a good timing note, I emptied out & clean up the storage compartments in the Lund today.

Heading to the dealer after this mess blows through.

ProXS is getting the 3 year and  hull is getting new trolling motor batteries. 

Cha-Ching !

A-Jay

 

On 11/1/2021 at 12:57 PM, Bird said:

Was just there Saturday and heading back in December.....Anna that is.

We stay off the hot side until it gets too cold for our regular water.   When I was guiding on the public/cold side (I only guided homeowners that lived on the private/hot side) I would have the marina break the skim ice in a path so I could get to the main lake. ??

On 10/23/2021 at 9:19 AM, slonezp said:

Bring on the cold. My paycheck increases during temperature extremes. Been a very good year so far.

Mine decreases the colder it gets. 

Woke up to the first actual snow on the ground today. It was all gone by about 1:00 when the sun came out. As a bass fisherman, it isn’t a nice sight, but as a deer hunter, it was a lovely thing to see. If it only showed up for two weeks in November, then was gone for the rest of the year, that’d be just about perfect for me. 

Had a nice dumping yesterday ~ 

Got a couple more inches overnight.

A-Jay

16 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

but as a deer hunter, it was a lovely thing to see

I agree.  Our firearms opener is in 3 days and its not looking good as the forecasted highs on Sat & Sun is near 60.  That's too warm.

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Had a nice dumping yesterday ~ 

Got a couple more inches overnight.

A-Jay

Wow! 

Bring on the cold, I'm about ready for ice fishing.  Am I the only one who ice fishes on here?  Seems like almost everyone from northern climates on here don't transition to the hard water but just call it a year until ice out.

5 minutes ago, Black Hawk Basser said:

Bring on the cold, I'm about ready for ice fishing.  Am I the only one who ice fishes on here?  Seems like almost everyone from northern climates on here don't transition to the hard water but just call it a year until ice out.

I've only been a few times and I don't have my own gear. I just wait it out for the open water season. Ice fishing is popular here too but I would still say most anglers here are like me. 

9 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Had a nice dumping yesterday ~ 

Got a couple more inches overnight.

A-Jay

Dude!!!! Holy crap. We’ve seen a few flurries down here yesterday and I said thank you A-Jay for sending me some. Little did I know you were getting absolutely dumped on. 

2 hours ago, Black Hawk Basser said:

Bring on the cold, I'm about ready for ice fishing.  Am I the only one who ice fishes on here?  Seems like almost everyone from northern climates on here don't transition to the hard water but just call it a year until ice out.

I am not a fan of sitting on an ice cube fishing through a hole freezing my arse off.