I usually hang up my bassin' gear here in South Central KS in about later October, and pull out my flyfishing gear and head for our stocked trout stream.  Tons of fun.  I cannot stress enough how good flyfishing feels.  But this year I think I'll give some bucketmouths the opportunity to bite when chilled to beer mug temperatures.  Why not, right? ;D

Smile, because you're fishing.  Hell I forget stuff when I load the car, because I can't wait to get out there.  I hope that feeling never fades away.

98 degrees in the shade, humidity about 80%, how can you be thinking about winter?

Yes, here in GA, I fish year round. In Jan and Feb I do concentrate on the strippers about as much as the bass. We start the moring off bass fishing but after a couple of hours, when the strippers start, we change to them. When stripper's quit, we go back to bass fishing. If the gulls are active early, we skip the bass and go straight for the strippers. There are times we have caught over 30 in one morning that went between 12 - 16 lbs. Catching these with Storm swim baits on 7' medium rod and 14 lb test line are tons of fun. When you get into them, if it didn't take so dang long to get one in, you could catch more.

Forgot to mention, a very good thermal suit, a couple of dozen pairs of gloves and a couple of those Coleman pancake looking heaters help greatly.  I've spent bunches of money on just about every kind of Gortex and every other kind of glove to keep your hand dry and haven't found one yet that works.  Those cheap, brown cotton gloves and the heaters are still the best thing I've found.  when the cotton gloves get wet, change to another pair and use the heaters to warm your hand back up.  

I can't wait to get out there. I hope that feeling never fades away.

The catholics have a term for this:  purgatory!