It looks like spring will be 2.5 weeks early!

[ExBassGuide]

In the early spring I look to nature to tell me when to go fishing!!!! Yes the thing I look for is the pink blossoms you see on some trees. I just saw my first pink flowers for this year. Last year it was Feb. 7th. You can also use daffodils, but track the pink flowers. I can tell you the day each year for the last 16 years. So now we need to talk about what is it that warms a lake up. This time of year it is warm rain and sometimes sunny weather.
If we got some warm days with some good sun the bass would go crazy! The winter is not over but the bass do not know that (they do not where watches). Deeper lakes get stirred up by the wind and take longer to cool off and warm up. Roger
Do you look for hint that its time to go bass fishing?

[rob allen]

I usually look for the first time we have a couple sunny warm days usually there are a couple by late Feb once in a while even a couple days in the low 70's that's what I look for. more watching the weather than other natural hints.. though I do take notice when i see the first lillypay break the surface.. not too long now:)

[bucketmouth]

Earliest Bass I ever caught came in the first week of March.

I usually begin my weather watch after the sportsmans show each year. Don't really have my boat ready to go before then anyway.

The biguns usually come during those first warmming days after mid Feb.

[ExBassGuide]

First week in Feb. Bass have been taken from every month of the year just now always on the same year :laugh:

[nitrobass]

3 days of sun and I'm heading to the coast..

Fishing can be great this time of year. Weeds are down, skiers arent around, and fish can be tricked pretty easily. Not a lot of big ones but enough to warrant being out there for sure

[Whopper Stopper]

I usually wait for the first couple of 60 degree days in February. On the north end of Cullaby Lake across from the canal is a inlet on the East Shore. It's shallow and warms up quick. If I can be there on one of those warm days I usually find them almost up on the bank behind the brush piles. I have to skip my bait as far back under those brush piles as I can and work it SLOW. If you cruise by and cast to the edges of the brush/trees your wasting your time. You have to skip it way back. :dance: