Personal best largemouth!

[tt350z]

Well we had a nice warm day today, so I decided to take the boat out and target some largemouth's. It hit a whopping 41ºF today! Of course by the time the high temp was recorded I was already on my way home. Had my best day out there today, 2 over 3 lbs, 3 at 2 lbs, and about 5 little guys.

It's a only a 3 lbs 8 oz LM , but consider the state record is 8 lbs 8 oz from the same lake... in 1983.



I think this is the only lake that doesn't have enough ice to drive a truck on. North end of the lake frozen over.

[dragon1]

Excellent job on the PB in cold water, for sure!

[got2be5]

Nice job nice fish as well.

[Redfish]

41? I would have been trolling the boat to keep from freezing my southern boys off!

[dragon1]

41? I would have been trolling the boat to keep from freezing my southern boys off!

Wool unders, itchy, but waaarrrm!

[tt350z]

41 is definitely a heat wave, there was a few times I thought about stripping down to just my tshirt, that is until the wind picked up!

I had my ice fishing bibs on, it got a little toasty in there.

[the hooligan]

Nice bass

[Yetti]

Sweet looked fun !

[dhottle]

WTG cold & all.

[igl00jx]

Way to whack them! Gotta love the heatwave in the north country. Balmy 40+ the past couple of days in the Twin Cities.

[USA-RET]

Nice chunky fish and congrats on a PB. When I lived "north" I'd have been out there too. Now, when temps fall below 60, I'm in a sweatshirt, long pants, stocking cap, and sipping hot chocolate in front of a space heater.

[facelessnewsouth]

Man, I can't imagine being on the water when it's that cold!!! Luckily for me, I don't really have to. It's supposed to get to 80 here today .

Congrats on the PB!

[spookybaits]

Right on man, good job! What bait you catch it on?

You ever throw swimbaits? I bet if you put the time in you could get the state record. I'd bet those north Dakota bass haven't seen too many swimbaits...
What's the main fish forage/baitfish there?

[tt350z]

Caught all the bass that day on a 3/4oz D&M Piranha swim jig.

I have a few Spro BBZ-1 and a couple Ragos that I left at home. I wasn't throwing them since I had only ever landed small (maybe 1 lb) bass there. This was my 5th time out to that particular lake as its one of the farther lakes for me to drive to.

I agree, I doubt any bass up here in ND have seen to many swimbaits. Now that I know there are some decent size ones, I'm gonna start chucking them.

Main forage is bluegills and crappie. Probably smaller northerns as well.

[Gone Phishin]

Congrats! Beautiful fish.

It hit 41* here yesterday...I drove home on the interstate with my driver's window down.