This Weekend...

[Ultralance12]

Ill be out for the first time in 5 weeks this weekend and was wondering if anyone expects the patterns to change much with the hot day on friday and the front on Saturday. I know water temp wont be much different but Im hoping to get away from jerk/crank (which i still have never caught anything with) and back to my fb jig or maybe even spinner. I may even get lucky and see some whites (i usually just throw whatever is on my line at em even if they are in the middle and ive got on a jig). If anyone is out there the last few days or tomorrow let me know if you noticed the fish change behavior. Ill post an amateur report saturday night.

[dtrs5kprs]

Ill be out for the first time in 5 weeks this weekend and was wondering if anyone expects the patterns to change much with the hot day on friday and the front on Saturday. I know water temp wont be much different but Im hoping to get away from jerk/crank (which i still have never caught anything with) and back to my fb jig or maybe even spinner. I may even get lucky and see some whites (i usually just throw whatever is on my line at em even if they are in the middle and ive got on a jig). If anyone is out there the last few days or tomorrow let me know if you noticed the fish change behavior. Ill post an amateur report saturday night.

It's March, so if it is hot it will probably be windy with it. If so, should be good for the wart, stick, or A-rig, if it doesn't get too bad. The brown fish ought to start eating a smoke grub on staging places before too awful much longer.

[Quillback]

We've been catching them on jigs and tubes the last 3 weeks. Smaller jigs, 5/16 or 3/8 seems to be the best. We're also finding fish back in the coves, not all the way back on the spawning flats but in the deeper water that gives access to the flats.

[mudbug]

My friend woke me up this morning to tell me about his fishing trip to Springfield lake yesterday evening (3/13/13).

The lake was about a foot high. That puts it up in the weeds on the bank. He was catching bass on a spinner bait, waking it over the top of the weeds, in no more that 3ft of water. Most came in 8-10”.

Now the thought had crossed my mind that he was feeding me a fish story. But I don’t think so. Because he cut the conversation short so that he could get to basspro when they opened, to buy some more spinner baits.

He tells me his trip ended when he lost the one that they were biting on.