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Comment by Jason Preslar on March 4, 2013 at 10:12am

Forecast looks to be better towards the later part of the week.....I'm ready for the heat too!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 4, 2013 at 9:59am

Nice report Jason but me personally...I'm ready to sweat a little....bring on the heat! Only 16 days until Spring but it looks like we have to survive another winter storm later this week......

Comment by Jason Preslar on March 2, 2013 at 5:15pm

I hit a local pond after work this evening....37 degrees and the wind was super harsh.....3 shirts under a hoodie and I could barely move my fingers when the sun was setting.....got 3 decent gills though, using a baby shad tipped with crappie nibbles......they seem to catch more good gills than crappie though.....

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 2, 2013 at 4:17pm

Got out to a local five acre pond this afternoon for a couple hours in relatively harsh conditions.........Water temperatures at 49 degrees on the surface and stained from a very wet February.....Normally I would still fish micro jigs and baits in these colder conditions but I was impatient and decided to tie on a new style Gronaw Grass Shrimp jig in a 1/32 ounce size.....I caught some smaller crawfish to tip with today and this was definitely to the bass' liking......

Great Blue Herons and River Otters are working the rain swollen ditches in my area so I stopped and grabbed a few to wet a line with.....

This new "Green Darner" colored jig above was pounded by Largemouth Bass and a few gills also.....

I also caught a few fish on this new one in chartreuse and red filament also tipped with live crawfish....

Big fish today was 18.5" and 4 pounds and 11 ounces...tricky on a light action 4' 10" Eagle Claw Rod and a Zebco 11 reel......

Had a total of four largemouth between 14 and 18.5 inches today...

Mouthful of the Green Darner jig...

A Silent Stinger caught some medium gills and some channel cats too.....

 

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on February 26, 2013 at 10:05am

I'm excited to be in eastern N.C. as February nears a close and March brings some changes that every North Carolina Bluegill Angler should love.....It starts with the return of Daylight Savings Time on March 10th, a great change for anglers still in the work force as it allows for some weekday fishing with extended daylight hours and this will grow through July as days will get longer and longer.....Followed closely by the first day of spring on the 20th and finally the most important day in March in the coastal region is Good Friday, the 29th...this is historically the beginning of the Bluegill transition period in the tidal waters.....water temperatures normally reach 60 degrees by this date each year give or take a week......Based on what I'm seeing right now and the current forecast we appear to be right on track again.....Another heavy rain event is filling lakes and rivers throughout the state today....this will keep many waterways a bit stained and it would appear that water temperatures will hang between the high 40s and the mid 50s.....We're getting closer!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on February 19, 2013 at 9:20am

Thanks Jim and good luck Jason....hope you guys are able to get out for a little while after the front....Shorter days in the winter makes it tough when the weather is lousy on your day off.....Applaud your determination to fish and hope your effort is rewarded...Let us know how you did!

Comment by Jason Preslar on February 19, 2013 at 5:36am

Jeffrey, it's pouring snow here this morning. That figures because its my day off and I was going fishing with my brother! We're goin to wait it out and go anyway, supposed to be sunny and in the 50s this afternoon, so we'll see.

Comment by Jim Gronaw on February 18, 2013 at 9:35pm

Finding and catching fish in the middle of winter is a challenge and very satisfying when you do. Our temps are all over the place and skim ice is almost an on-and -off thing now. I would love to see 3 to 5 days of 50 degree temps and with a little cloud cover and light wind. But I have gotten crappie down to 38 and gills down to 39 degrees in the open water...but it can be tough!

Good job, my friend!

Comment by David Wester on February 18, 2013 at 6:25pm

Nice fish Jeffrey. Must he nice to be able to have a couple of"go to" spots like you have. I went to the local hot hole on Lake Norman the other day, it's the Duke Power discharge that heats the water. Hooked a couple of bass but no eager gills. Funny thing is,most anglers would he happy with the bass and not bluegills. I guess that's why I'm on this site. Anyway, just booked our shellcracker trip to Santee Cooper on full moon of April. Hopefully I'll get some practice in locally before then. Can't wait until spring when they don't just bite the jig, they attack it.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on February 18, 2013 at 5:24pm

Had a very chilly day in Northeast N.C. this President's Day....After a real blustery day yesterday......I got out to a local sand pit and located a few willing gills and some aggressive Channel Cats.....With stained water, I decided to add a chartreuse shad 1" gulp minnow for additional scent attractant.....I think it helped to lure a few nicer gills and just kept the channel cats busy.....Air temperatures barely got to 40 degrees and the weekend cold front pulled water temperatures back down in the mid 40s.....Late February and early March can be up and down so we'll keep counting down to Good Friday and fish when Mother Nature allows......Enjoyed getting out but I'm ready for a warm up and so are the fish......

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