I racked up, packed up for the season just waiting for spring at the moment. So why don't you guys help keep my mind on tracks by telling me your fishing experiences lately. Since these winter months are here now. Thank you I can't wait until spring. Time to hibernate.

My boat has been out of the water and shrinkwrapped for over a month. For some reason the bass didn't move into my canal this Fall (which is very odd), and there is a thin layer of ice on the water right now and I can't even go icefishing for perch. I'm a cranky old -------.

Within the next few weeks there should be enough ice to go fishing, however that isn't my favorite way to fish. It is better than not fishing at all though.

Falcon

Winterizing the boat today and calling it quits for the year. I've always done pretty decent in November but this year the November fishing was tougher than Superman's kneecaps :-[.

The club tournament season is over, but I will start fishing a local series on January 11.  Any fishing I do between now and then will be focused on finding fish to catch for that first tournament in January.

Winterizing the boat today and calling it quits for the year. I've always done pretty decent in November but this year the November fishing was tougher than Superman's kneecaps :-[.

Is this Ken Nance from the old crankenstein.net ?!!???

Fishing has been good in Alabama.  Unfortunately I hit a rock last week and bent prop shaft and tore up prop.  I am about to hook up boat and take to couple of dealers to get estimates.  I hope the price is lower than what they quoted on the phone!  Otherwise my boat will be parked for a while....

It's Primetime on the Tennessee River. Our smallmouth

season gets started in October and runs through about

mid-March.  My partner caught his PB in November, 2004;

mine were caught two months later, January, 2005. Those

are the fish in my avatar.

8-)

Fishing has been good down here between the fronts.

Winterizing mine also. That means charging the batteries, respooling reels, discussions with the B Monkey, fueling up, and trying to decide where to go. Now through April is my favorite time to fish.

Winterizing the boat today and calling it quits for the year. I've always done pretty decent in November but this year the November fishing was tougher than Superman's kneecaps :-[.

Is this Ken Nance from the old crankenstein.net ?!!???

Fishing has been good in Alabama. Unfortunately I hit a rock last week and bent prop shaft and tore up prop. I am about to hook up boat and take to couple of dealers to get estimates. I hope the price is lower than what they quoted on the phone! Otherwise my boat will be parked for a while....

No, my name is Mike. Someone else asked me if I was Ken Nance. I didn't steal somebody's handle, did I :-??

I wouldn't worry about it Mike.  There is a man named Ken Nance who lived in Kentucky and had a really cool site at crankenstein.net.  Word is he had a bad episode of Chrohn's disease and disappeared.  (I don't think he passed away or anything like that).  But anyway, since you are from Kentucky people might ask you about it from time to time.  I have not seen or heard from Ken in many years so I think it is very safe for you to use "crankensein" as your username.  It shouldn't bother you one bit.  

Nothin' but dinks around here the past few days...  

We caught 7 keepers over the holidays.  5 of those between 8 and 9 am Friday.   We have had 3 fronts blow through in the last week.  The bite is off.

Down here in S. florida the bite has been slow for the Large mouths,  but these wierd looking bass won't seem to stay off the hook. (LOL) This one went 18 inches and around 4 lbs.

Wish I could still be out there, meanwhile I am waiting for the ice to thicken >    So jealous of the members down south.

still waiting for the water to warm back up lol i cant wait until i graduate... ill make it a point to find a college with good lakes around and warm all year round    but i still got 3 and a half yrs of high school to go >

My boat has been out of the water and shrinkwrapped for over a month. For some reason the bass didn't move into my canal this Fall (which is very odd), and there is a thin layer of ice on the water right now and I can't even go icefishing for perch. I'm a cranky old -------.

Within the next few weeks there should be enough ice to go fishing, however that isn't my favorite way to fish. It is better than not fishing at all though.

Falcon

ah nice your from MI too!

Man, sounds like you guys from the southern part of the states there are still having fun. Well good luck to you guys, wish me luck when springs here lol ;D

The bite is still on nice and strong in East Texas.  I'm catching nice bass in shallow water and out deep as well.

Winter is my 'time to shine' when it comes to bass fishing.  Last winter there were many trips where my buddies were skunked and I was pullin 'em in all day.  I stick to t-rigs, c-rigs, jigs, and shakey head finesse worms this time of year.

These days its been in the 40s in the mornings and up into the 60s in the afternoon.

If it gets below freezing for a while, then it'll be time to hit up the power plant lakes.  They stay nice and toasty.

I live in franklin nc which is west of asheville and just 15 miles from the georgia line and about 35 to south carolina. I fish alot of local tournament trails. 3 to be exact and they are all year long. Last week 16 pounds won it over at chatuge we finished 5th with just over 9 pounds. but they thing about all the lakes around here is the spotted bass have took over. I would say every lake is at least 75% spots and spots hit all year long. They might be deep but they are 10 times easier to catch then largemouths in the winter. just like RW said about the smallies. the spots are now just heating up really. yeah you might have to spend half the day finding them but once you find the bait and the fish getting them to bite is not that hard really. just use a drop shot, shakey-head worm, jig or a spoon. also deep cranks and slow rolled spinnerbaits work. I have tourney this saturday and sunday on nottley. I'll let everyone know how they are bitting.

That peacock is purrrrrrrty!  

Down here in S. florida the bite has been slow for the Large mouths, but these wierd looking bass won't seem to stay off the hook. (LOL) This one went 18 inches and around 4 lbs.

Sweet! We need to meet up on the Lake so you can put me on some Peacock!

I had all of last week off but only managed to get out one day. Hit the upper Potomac for some smallie action near one of the warm water discharge areas near me. The smallie action was rather slow. Only managed 5 little dinks. One my way out, I fished part of the C&O canal that I've caught a handful of largemouths before. I managed this 20 incher on a t-rigged Strike King stick bait. My digital scale weighed her at 4lbs 4oz.

My Fall has really been bad as far as time on the water goes.  I spent seven weekends in Lewisville, Texas, including some days during the week, performing an upgrade of an enterprise network so fishing days have been scarce.  Unfortunately, I was working around the clock much of the time I was there so I didn't get to check out any Texas water.  However, when I have been on the water fishing has been good.  Water temps are around 40 and heading south fast but the black and blue GMAN jigs are still catching fish, though at a much slower rate.   8-)

Bass fishing's done in CT. All of my favorite ponds are mostly, if not fully, covered in ice.

I'm in for a long winter of trout and salmon fishing. Sucks.

i havent had much luck all fall but today i tried out a new pond and caught 2 4lbs bass and a crappie.. others include a few dinks. i thought i was gonna get skunked. i used a shakey head jig and the zoom brown and green trick stick. i let it sink then sit then twitch twitch BOOM.

YAY SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

SS