May fish this Western PA Hardwater tournament on Saturday if the ice is good, then I'm done regardless.
- Waiting for blue winged olives to start hatching on spring creek and fishing creek. Then onto caddis and sulphurs..
- Waiting for things to warm up, so I can get a spring steelhead trip or two in, and also so the bass go into prespawn and spawn mode.. Got first club tournament of the year on April 9.
- Organizing and taking inventory on everything on my boat, hit on the idea this year of writing the depth on the bill of all my crankbaits.
And, while the season this year was short, and I only fished three lakes (seems every time I wanted to make a road trip to a big-name impoundment, the ice was never safe), I had some of my best days on the ice ever, including some triple digit numbers days. My theory is that, last year, when we had 2-3 feet of ice, some of the oxygen dissipated, significantly slowing the fishing down.