Bassin' Over the Border

With the Minnesota Bass opener still weeks away, we decided to hit up some of the ND bass waters (few and far between).  The recent cold weather has been wreaking havoc on patterning the creatures.  We started fishing then when the weather was 70 and sunny and many of the bass were extremely shallow in the rushes and as tight to shore as you could get.  The plain ole' spinner bait was the choice and there were doubles and triples like they were going out of style!  Most of the fish we caught were in the 2-3 lb. range, but we did manage a few that were pushing 4.5-5lbs.  It was a blast then the water got cold and had to start really working for the fish.  The trick was to slow roll spinnerbaits over the deeper newly emerging weeds or twitching a small crank-bait.  This weekend the weather was awesome up here and we slammed the bass that were staged in deep water.  The trick was to find sunken trees that fell into about 10-15 fow.  One after another we stacked up the pig bass.  They were all just fat, fat, fat fish and it was a blast to say the least.  On one tree, I went 5 casts with 5 fish; I would pitch it to the tree let it sink and when I lifted up my rod, boom there it was.  I am also really excited for the opener which I will be spending on Leech this year, which should be awesome!  From the stacked waters of NoDak.....Keep Livin' the Dream!