Radical temperature drop in New England overnight. Air temp was 43 degrees when I hit my local pond at 11 this morning. Water temp: 48 degrees. Wind: 10 mph

Didn't have high hopes, but the sun was out and I had the day off from work. It took awhile: tried a jig, an X-rap, then a lighter jig without success. Finally tied on my old reliable blue shad DT-6 cranked with pauses and picked up a nice little 1lb, 12 oz LMB. Then it was time to go home.

We're supposed to get another warm up next week, but I'll be at work.

Season's not over yet.  

Great news Norman.  You've rekindled my hopes for tommorrow!

Good luck! Gonna be brutal out there.

Ahhhhh, no worries, we New Englanders are hearty folks.  Plus, I'll have a nice venison stew simmering at the house when I get back.

Yep, real cold spell has set in here in NH. Took advantage of the 68* we had the other day and managed one LM on a DT-6 as well.

This guy was 1.5lb. The only other bites were a couple of small perch and a really ticked off pickerel.

47* in montgomery, alabama...and im still wearing chacos

its getting pretty cold here too. 40* when i woke up this mourning.

I plan on taking the canoe out this afternoon with my fishn buddies in search of a nice 3lb season-closer.

and LBH, isn't venison stew the best? i swear its the best soup/stew i've ever had. I come from a hunting family and we have plenty of meat to go around during the winter. Venision Jerky and Stew are my faverite. Also wild boar is very good, we got one in texas last year.

It got down to about 75* here yesterday. Boy was I freezing. ;D

hey NH Guy , thats a beautiful lookin fish

good for you Norman.

"One more cast"

"One more cast"

I don't know about that,.....our last cast of the season usually bounces,lol.

Russ, how'd you do yesterday? And how was that venison stew???

I got a date with a rake today :-[

2 more 5's yesterday but I didn't put them in current video, keeping it all Nathan and me.  I went with Eric yesterday.  Bite definately slowing but the big girls are still eating.

Got back too late to start stew, simmering as we speak,....house smells YUM-E!!

Yep, This guy was 1.5lb.

its really only 1.5....?....it looks much bigger to me