I don’t care how cold it is.. are any of you thinking about bass fishing.. cuz I sure am.. I am not ready to do anything about it yet.. and its not time for a trip down the river to Cabelas.. ( they are alway out of what I need when I go there anyway).. but anyone just starting to mentally getting ready to go?
I would like to hear your random thoughts.. about fishing that is. save those other thoughts for a different thread.. 
If you are into hard water fishing, I got a small lake that will put you on a ton of Largies. That way you dont have to wait to get your fix…
I’m with you. It’s only going to get worse.
Well, here is some “optimism” you can try and believe in. The Avg Daily Temp according to weatherchannel.com for Rochester is 19 degrees Jan 8 – 17. On the 18th it’s 20 degrees and goes up from there.
So, OPTIMISTICALLY thinking, on the 18th, we’re on the uphill slide of winter! 
I like the way you think Chuck 
I mentally and some physically started to get stuff together for the year.. I got this new ( OLDER THEN DIRT ) paper graph.. for me this is going to be a break through cuz I have used flashers all my life..
and I am in the process of buying two new rods.( meaning that I am waiting for my lovely wife of 30 years as of Jan 13th, the okay to order the dopey things..)
I really am set for tackle. In October I was out to the Delta area in California and bought some swim baits .. may be I need a new reel or two.. but I should be fairly good..
but then there is the Mental side of fishing.. RIGHT NOW, I am all gung ho.. I know where to start. what new methods I am going to use.. and I am thinking about news spots that I am going to try instead of driving over and past them for the past 30 plus years..
but it seems as the closer it gets the more your confidence fades..
In the past, I would go to Alabama to fish HARD for 4 days with my best friend. but just under a year ago, he had a heart attack, ( 3 weeks before I was to get on the plane..)
and he isn’t ready for “spring training” as of yet.. He needs to heal more..
and so I sit here and mentally fish or think of fishing.. or tell old fish stories.
and curse the river on a daily basis until it starts to soften..
Me and another Idofishing member were bass fishing march 20th of last year in pool 5a and actually didnt have to bad of day 
. I cant wait until the end of march/early april.
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i too can usually get a good fix of open water fishing before march is over. its not bass fishing, but the walleye fishing on the river that we can do all winter helps just a little. that is the only time you will ever see me fish for those stupid things….
Oh play nice now! There not as good as bass on the stove top ,but there not to bad either!
anybody starting to look at their boat? or put line on the reels yet? or just getting cranking to do something? I see some big Walleyes were being caught on pool 4.. anyone desperate enough to do that? its kinda a pain to take a bassboat out now.. if I had a smaller boat I would consider it..
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anybody starting to look at their boat? or put line on the reels yet? or just getting cranking to do something? I see some big Walleyes were being caught on pool 4.. anyone desperate enough to do that? its kinda a pain to take a bassboat out now.. if I had a smaller boat I would consider it..
I have been spending the last two weeks off and on working on getting my boat ready. I am finally hooking up the cooler livewell in my small boat. Before I had to put the pump into the river to fill my livewell. Now I actually have a livewell pump to suck water with. I also have to make a new platform to cover the gas tanks and everything else in the back of my boat.
I am doing all this in hopes of hitting one of the many Poweplant lakes in the next few weeks.
I can’t wait for March
Jeremy
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