There's the sunshine!!! FINALLY the ice is gone and the waters warming up. It's been a looong, painful winter. Just a few weeks ago I was staring at the 3 foot of snow on my back deck thinking I'd never get to fish again. At long last the sun has returned and turned the water soft again!
Nate met me after work out at the honey hole hoping the big bass were awoken from their slumber and hungry for a meal. We could see big brown spots swimming in the water, and they were all gathered up in one end. Nate and I threw about everything we had at them and they weren't interested. We decided to make the 30 minute drive up to Marysville to the farm ponds on our buddy's property. The move proved to be a good one.
I was on the dock hooking up live bait for my 2nd rod. Nate went to a tree that's fallen in the water and hooks up on the 2nd cast. I've been dying to use my new Rapala digital scale I got for Christmas, so we threw the fish on there. 1lb, 4oz. Not exactly what I'd call a cow, and not the weight I wanted to break the scale in with...But a bass is a bass.
Again Nate caught it on a white jig with a mister twister. That's the hote set up righ tnow. He caught another small one before I could get a line in the water. I run over and throw the exact same thing and almost immediately hook up. Cross March off the list! 1st Ohio Bass of 2010. Probably the same 1.4lbs.
We worked around catching a few more fish and tried the other smaller ponds. Nate caught 3 and I had caught 4. Nate left to go feed his face and got his van stuck in the mud. Brian showed up and we spent quality fishing time getting his Mexican painting van out of the mud. Nice work Super. Brian and I went to make a couple more casts before calling it quits. Brian finally hooked up and gets on the board for 2010. He's got some catching up to do....
It's like someone flipped a switch, we were catching fish left and right. That's how you do work in March! It's a real subtle bite right now, you have to fish these jigs really slow and be patient for the bite. I missed 3 or 4 by setting the hook too fast. Had 2 on about to land them and they got off. It's a tough hook set. Brian caught another one right away and I caught 3 on consecutive casts. Unbelievable for March. The last of those 3 was the best of the day. He actually hit the jig hard and about fell on my ass setting the hook. I yelled out "I HIT HIM SO HARD I MADE HIM CROSS EYED!"
Darkness crept in and lightning started flashing close by so we decided to call it a day. Scoreboard: Me 8, Nate 3, Brian 3. Heck of a day for early March! Just for the record, Nate's Bass was 1.4, and Brian weighed in this beast. 
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