Thanks Glenn for the article on finding pre spawn bass

I printed it out, and read it three or four times.  Finally most of it stuck.

Today was my first day for the year.  It was also my first expedition which I planned to fish mostly with a jig.

Air 47, Water 45.8 - 46.  Cloudy, no wind for the first hour, then a brisk breeze.

I concentrated on the shelf.  I tried a spinnerbait and caught one.  Tried a chatterfrog and caught another.  Tried a wacky rigged 5" senko and got nada.

One hour gone.

Had rigged one of my rods with a half ounce Strike King football jig, black with blue flash.  Added a flappin hog, watermelon/red flake trailer.

Second cast, a roe laden 6 pound bass.  A few casts later a two pounder.

In all, I caught nine bass, seven on the pig n jig.  

Be kind, I should have caught more but on a few occasions, I mistook a hit for a hang. I was lucky to catch the ones I did, because on some, they hooked themselves.  

The line went tight, but not with the characteristic tug I'm used to with other lures.  It wasn't until I pulled on the line and it started moving off that I realized it was a fish.

In one place, I caught two, and missed two or three others.  While fighting one fish, which was about ten yards off the port side, another bass jumped clear of the water about ten feet off the bow of the canoe.

Then the wind picked up, and I called it a day.  Good thing.  It started to pour just as I was strapping the canoe in the back of my truck.

I figured I had dressed just right, since I felt comfortably warm while fishing.  It wasn't until I hauled the canoe out of the water that I started to feel cold.  My feet were cold, my hands were cold.

If I'd kept on fishing, I'd have probably developed hypothermia.

It was a great morning.