I predict next week will be my best fishing all year, so I'm pre-reporting and we'll soon see if I'm right. It's cool today and tomorrow will be even cooler, ranging from 47 degrees to 50 degrees. It starts to warm on Sunday and that warming continues through the week. See the trees and bushes last night?

 

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Still brown, right? Well, I expect them to erupt this coming week and I expect the bass to do the same. I've done well this spring with quality, catching seven bass over 19 inches in the last four trips, and about a dozen bass between 18 and 19 inches this last week alone, but quantity should double or triple next week...if my forecast holds...and it'll stay that way through the end of June. 

 

#whenthetreesawakenthebassdotoo

 

P. S. - Does anyone else still have bare branches?

In east TN when the trees turn green the fishing gets worse 

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

In east TN when the trees turn green the fishing gets worse 

 

Interesting. Not that way here. When the trees turn green here, the water is finally warm enough for the bass to feel perky. 

Two different worlds 

55 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Two different worlds 

 

Yeah, for sure. I think about this every time I share how many bass I catch with my chartreuse and white Zakos and worry that other BR members will go buy them, catch nothing, and say, "Swampy's a kook."

 

As Jimmy might sing, "Changes in latitude, changes in bass attitudes."

I find that areas with fruiting or flowering trees or bushes tend to hold the biggest bass early in the spring - may have something to do with pollinators attracting other life to the area and creating a food chain around the bloom.

1 minute ago, Pat Brown said:

I find that areas with fruiting or flowering trees or bushes tend to hold the biggest bass early in the spring - may have something to do with pollinators attracting other life to the area and creating a food chain around the bloom.

 

You know all those YouTubers will clickbait titles like "Monster Bass," who then go out and catch one three-pounder? Still, some of them garner hundreds of thousands of views, even though an old woman in a canoe outfishes them ten-to-one. Well, I wish you had a channel, Pat. You sure deserve it. You constantly share things I haven't observed and didn't know.