Well no luck being stuck on shore at this time of year. Hopefully the ice is more generous than the shore bassn'. C'mon perch.

I'm close to being done for the season. As much as I love fishing, I'm ready for some down time. I fish several times a week, a couple of them on my bass boat, and with the price of gas, that doesn't come cheap. Most of the time I fish from my canoe with a trolling motor in a local honey hole. It's only five or ten minutes from my door to the pond. That only costs me a buck or so in gas, and the electricity to recharge the tm battery. An average trip in the bass boat is 25 - 40 dollars in fuel.

When the action slows to a crawl, I have a three to four month hiatus. After speedweeks at Daytona, I'll start to get a serious itch, and be ready to rock n roll into the next fishing season.

at least 2, maybe 6 more weeks for me here in WNY. I have SUCKED since about mid Aug. on my home lake. Very low water, very strong alge bloom that still won't clear up, and me generally being an idiot have all contributed. But I will keep at it, you never know what's going to happen. I caught my biggest smallie last year (5-2) in the middle of november.