Surely you southern folk can chime in too, it's just that we're a little more limited up here with open water in the winter months. Anyways, humor me here as we enter the depths of hell that is known as February. Where's your first spot this spring? Is it Braidwood, local water, fishing trip somewhere else? I'm hoping the weather permits for open water come early March, but who the heck knows. Braidwood is certainly going to get some attention from me as well as my local club assuming there isn't any, or minimal ice to get the boat out. Newton is of course on the schedule (twice in March for me) in which I hope to shred my thumbs in both outings.
P.S. and unrelated to bass, but saw an article come across my feed that a 40lb pike was recently caught out of the Des Plaines. I'm not a believer in quality out of the Des Plaines, but this is certainly interesting especially because the fisher said he's seen a remarkable change in the fishing the last several years....