PIB fishing this weekend

PIB delivered a healthy amount of largemouth bass this weekend. We caught about 30 between the hours of 9am and 3pm. The weather was cold in the low 40's, but the water temp was low 50's. Here are a couple of pictures.

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Ha, it's always fun up in the bay. I couldn't believe how thick the lagoons were already. A few more weeks and you'll need a canoe to get back to where we fished.

Good luck to you as well!

very nice largemouth!!!  those are some nice prespawn largies, with the water in the low 50's the prespawn patterns should work for a while yet,  but next week I see there could be a warming trend and the water will inch back up towards the 60's ,  action should pick up til then when the majority head to the beds, great job Otking!!!!!

Dude I was out last night water still is right at 60 back there, the fish are in spawn you can see fish on their beds with polarized lenses. The water temp in the bay is ranging 54-62 right now. Last night hammered largies and smallies on cranks

ORIGINAL: grouseman

very nice largemouth!!!  those are some nice prespawn largies, with the water in the low 50's the prespawn patterns should work for a while yet,  but next week I see there could be a warming trend and the water will inch back up towards the 60's ,  action should pick up til then when the majority head to the beds, great job Otking!!!!!

wow grouseman....would love to tag along....do you eat the bass or just strictly practice catch and release? 

Hey grouseman...when the topwater action heats up I'd like you to get me on some bass so I can try to catch one on my flyrod.

ORIGINAL: grouseman

  fishing when the air temp is in the 40's is not a lot of fun unless you're killin em.  Hard for me to get excited about fishing in air colder than 50degrees. 

Stay home tweedy bird , yer better off there anyways.

There is no spawn on and has not been up to this point. Been fishing here as long as anyone and I know exactly where they spawn and it simply hasn't happened. Why are people saying this? You don't have to be a biologist to know what conditions are needed and that has not happened. THere are always some outliers that might get a bed early but all of the fish I have caught and that is quite a few so far this year have not even come close to starting.

Stop hallucinating

Welcome back Dennis

quote: grouseman

Hummmmmmm interesting , one guy says water in low 50's another says 60. Guess I'll have to go see for myself. But I'm not a fan of bed fishing, just not my thing. Hopefully it's just the males preparing nests and not an actual full blown spawn, that kinda sucks. Wonder if anyone has been catching any of the big 4-5pd females or maybe they haven't come that shallow yet. Puzzling, gotta get up there.


Grouse, the one guy who said the water was in the 50's fished last weekend. The one who said it was 60 was fish'n on Wed. night

I was crusin your guys facebook pages...u guys sure do catch some fish!

I would love to compete against Dave Lefebre while his story is great I know several guys on this page that would crush him in a fish off such as Slick, Deetz, Bings, myself and several others. I have never seen him finish in the top 50s in any tournament. Just sayin'

How do I post a pic?

OK last chime in for me here on this thread.

If you are making a contest out of fishing and how many fish you can catch versus how many fish the other guy can or cant catch then you have just made fishing a "job".

That may be fine for some of you , whatever floats yer bote.
I choose not to make it a job but a recreation and stress reliever. To each their own.
Just dont belittle someone cause they aint gots money to have the "best" gear.

I fish cause I can and know how to. Its the one thing that helps me get by in life.

OH and IM not sponsored so Ive earned my skillz through experience. My "friends" know this and know who they are.

I can take any criticism any of yinz throw out there. The more I know the better I will be , good or bad. Just ask Slick.

Just sayin' .....If I dont resopnd its cause you aint worth the time. No hard feelings Fish on and do what you do. Cause if there wasnt any Jagoffz out there who would I laugh at...

I couldn't hold a candle to the pros.
But I also don't want to fish for a job.
I already miss to much work fishing...