This year in WNY....NOW!!!! At least in places with warm water. Like J.Francho said, it does seem like between 55-60 degrees is the starting point in the spring, in the fall I have caught them well in water that was in the low 50's.

Funny, I just posted on my blog about this topic. In Maryland, I've been ice fishing on this day in the past, and with this warmth, everything is happening so fast. Last night, the lake that I had an hour to fish just had that topwater feel to it. Frogs and toads everywhere, bugs buzzing me, panfish dimpling the water feeding on them, spring peepers singing in the background. So, I tied on a buzzbait and withing a few casts toward the end of my legal fishing time, I hooked a decent three pounder...but the bass threw the hook right at my feet before I could lip it. Still, this was my first time ever in Maryland hooking a bass on a buzzbait in March. I'll be pitching topwater more and more this week.