What type of fishing (non-ice) do you do this time of year?
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Well, I just wondered HOW to fish this time of year, because I’ve heard that fishing can be very good this time of year. I live in southern Il, It is cloudy and is about 36 degrees there is no ice on the pond. I’m fishing at a farm pond, so their is like your usual fish: Channel Cats, LM Bass, Sunfish, Bluegill, Crappie, etc.
Any suggestions or winter fishing stories appriciated!
But please no Ice Fishing tips, because I want to go, but I’m sadly not allowed. 
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I like to fish for compliments.
I haven’t went in a month, so I’ve just been buying lots of gear and even a DVD about fishing. I feel like a drug addict that hasn’t had any crack in a year! The last trip I went, and a few other trips before that, I burnt the crappie (and the occasional green sunfish, small bass, or bluegill) up with grubs and tubes rigged on jig-heads. I’d just cast and retrieve the grubs close enough to the surface for me to see them, and I bounced the tubes off the bottom.
I actually watched an eleven-inch crappie hit and miss my tube, then come back and NAIL IT.
well this time of year…..if you have access to any ponds then cool………..
ponds are good fishing year round………………
‘everything else right now is flooded….im in south, too……………
ponds are excellent……..depends where, and how you fish it
I live close enough to a reservoir to get out when it’s not too miserable. In winter, I usually catch bass only if I’m fishing a carolina lizard. I don’t know why nothing else works for me this time of year. The bass like deeper water when it’s cold I think!