I struggled to untie my rope to launch my canoe because it was frozen. And I had already decided to only fish the shoreline where I launched because the older I am, the more I fear cold water. However, the fishing was hot for the first hour and fifteen minutes. I started with this skinny one and photographed it in case I didn't catch another:

 

 

Oh, Kate of little faith! This was my next one:

 

 

My pond is getting soooo close to producing 19-inchers. Perhaps next year. Or 2027 at the latest.

 

Then I caught this slender, but handsome bass:

 

 

I then decided to  paddle to the far end of the north shore and try a grass bed there that has been holding bass. I trolled with a spinnerbait and underspin. Both rods snapped back. It was the third time this year I hooked two bass at once while trolling through a school.  I decided to photograph both at the same time. Not easy to do!

 

 

Still, you can see that both were beauties.  Then I reached the grass bed, which was in shade, and hooked this honker:

 

 

My last bass was this football:

 

 

Six of the bass were caught on a white spinnerbait with a shad-colored Keitech. I skunked the last 45 minutes because I kept fishing the same spots and apparently had already caught the active bass there. My seven bass give me 1,382 for the year and only 18 to go to reach 1,400, which is my new goal, as I've run out of warmth to catch 1,500. I am fishing my pal's pond or perhaps the new pond  tomorrow afternoon. 

Nice fish @Swamp Girl. It's crazy how different the weather is in various parts of the country. Our northern friends are talking about frost, and end of seasons, while those of us in the south are just starting to get into the fall pattern. Today is the first day that our high temp hasn't been 80+ since April or May.