What Is Your Favorite Fishing Season?

[FishinCricket]

If anyone would like to trade some Aprils and Octobers for some Februarys and Augusts...shoot me a PM, I'm interested

Is that some kind of code? (like fruit on your dashboard?)

[ozark trout fisher]

Favorite fishing season... The dead of winter in late December, January, and February. There are no crowds, and the trout fishing is as good as it gets on the Current and other similar streams. The fish are eating egg patterns like nobody's business, and it's possible to go out there on a terrible, nasty, cold, wet day, with icicles shooting down from the bluffs, and catch 40 or 50 trout pretty much all by yourself, all while freezing your butt off. It just doesn't get any better than that.

But I like the entire year... The seasons change the character of the fishing and the experience, but there are unique things to see and good fishing to be had 12 months a year.

[jdmidwest]

The dead of winter, gigged stunned smallmouths on a snag hook are alot of fun.

[Wheatenheimer]

Depends on the fish. For trout I like salt and pepper with a squeeze of lemon. Crappie and Walleye a nice cornmeal batter. And Smallmouth I like to wrap in bacon, coat with graham cracker crumbs and fry in lard.

Ooooohhhhh...........Season! I thought it said Seasoning.............my bad!

In that case, Winter for trout and the other season (Sprummertumn) for warmwater species.

[Norm M]

high cold muddy water. when the river is out of it's banks and chocolate milk is clear by comparison, I have the river to myself, location and presentation is fairly cut and dry. It's a big fish deal, definitely not numbers, sometimes all day for that one fish, sometimes a couple three of them and other times a lot of exercise out in the cold.

[fishinwrench]

high cold muddy water. when the river is out of it's banks and chocolate milk is clear by comparison, I have the river to myself, location and presentation is fairly cut and dry. It's a big fish deal, definitely not numbers, sometimes all day for that one fish, sometimes a couple three of them and other times a lot of exercise out in the cold.

Have you bumped your head ? Totally full of it ?....Or is there something you need to share with me ?

Lets talk about that location/presentation during blown-out flood stage, can we ?

[fishinwrench]

Is that some kind of code? (like fruit on your dashboard?)

Yes it is a code, and if you don't already "get it" then you probably don't need to.

[Norm M]

no, I'm not putting you on. mostly stuff that pushes a lot of water. say for instance flooded trees, 3/8 to 1/2 oz single spin size 6 to 8 magnum willow or colorado blade, reversed living rubber skirt, 5 inch twister and skin the bark on the flooded trees. in others, large jig/pig or weighted keeper hook with 5 or 6 inch twister. If there is enough room a big crank like a Norman DD20 fished extremely slow and against any current flow if current is present in less than 4 ft of water. Big, fat, dumb, slow, eat me.

I was one of the guys featured in an article in In Fisherman a few years back for this kind of fishing. Steve Quinn and I both spoke at an Illinois Smallmouth Alliance banquet and after I talked about my experiences we got together and put together the material for part of his article. I've also had the outdoors reporter for my local paper and the chicago sun Times do features on this. I helped the guy from the Sun times catch his first smallie on a crankbait in 33 degree water temps.

I have written about this in the Illinois smallmouth Alliance Bronzeback Bulletin and on multiple websites relating to smallmouth fishing like river smallies and other websites in the upper midwest.

I've also caught smallies on topwaters in the dead of winter, a time or two in high cold muddy water but generally in much more normal winter flow regimes.

You just have to be willing or possibly crazy enough to do things a touch differently than conventional wisdom dictates. After all, it wasn't all that long ago that the books and fishing magazines all pretty much said forget about fishing for smallies when the temps fall below 40 degrees. Now you can't pick up a magazine in the fall/winter issues without at least one or two articles expounding upon the coldwater opportunities in river smallmouth fishing. I know I was inspired by Butch Ward as were others many years back to give winter fishing for smallies a try. He also felt that high water made location much easier.

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[ollie]

I love the summertime fishing the best I think. If the fish aren't biting then you can just get wet and enjoy the cool water. Although I also like the nasty winter stuff fishing for trout. Have had some of my best days when the weather gets nasty. The bigger boys like to come out an play in that weather!

[Wheatenheimer]

no, I'm not putting you on. mostly stuff that pushes a lot of water. say for instance flooded trees, 3/8 to 1/2 oz single spin size 6 to 8 magnum willow or colorado blade, reversed living rubber skirt, 5 inch twister and skin the bark on the flooded trees. in others, large jig/pig or weighted keeper hook with 5 or 6 inch twister. If there is enough room a big crank like a Norman DD20 fished extremely slow and against any current flow if current is present in less than 4 ft of water. Big, fat, dumb, slow, eat me.

I was one of the guys featured in an article in In Fisherman a few years back for this kind of fishing. Steve Quinn and I both spoke at an Illinois Smallmouth Alliance banquet and after I talked about my experiences we got together and put together the material for part of his article. I've also had the outdoors reporter for my local paper and the chicago sun Times do features on this. I helped the guy from the Sun times catch his first smallie on a crankbait in 33 degree water temps.

I have written about this in the Illinois smallmouth Alliance Bronzeback Bulletin and on multiple websites relating to smallmouth fishing like river smallies and other websites in the upper midwest.

I've also caught smallies on topwaters in the dead of winter, a time or two in high cold muddy water but generally in much more normal winter flow regimes.

You just have to be willing or possibly crazy enough to do things a touch differently than conventional wisdom dictates. After all, it wasn't all that long ago that the books and fishing magazines all pretty much said forget about fishing for smallies when the temps fall below 40 degrees. Now you can't pick up a magazine in the fall/winter issues without at least one or two articles expounding upon the coldwater opportunities in river smallmouth fishing. I know I was inspired by Butch Ward as were others many years back to give winter fishing for smallies a try. He also felt that high water made location much easier.

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Well, I don't mean to be a turd, but this is the "ShoMe State". Give us some links to these "said" articles and/or pic's proving your bizarre statements.

Please and Thank You.