The weather couldn't get much worse than what we had last Saturday. We were running up the lake and at one point I couldn't even see in front of the boat. We had to shut her down and fish an area we hadn't planned on working.

They made the approach here. They tried to get in. But the weather (conditions) were below minimum.

They did keep us from running, and we just weren't able to get the ball going like we wanted. If we don't run, we have trouble scoring.

Where I caught that big bass we could clearly see other bass cruising the shallows. That tells me that they are moving up and getting ready to bed. In fact, we saw several beds in about 5 feet of water. Everybody is getting excited about the spawn. We'll probably have bass on the beds by this weekend. But the real push of spawning bass won't come for another 10 days or so.

There are also a few big fish being caught deep with cranks, but the best bite for the most fish is in about 3 feet of water.

The water temperature up here was 57 degrees over the weekend. That's just about bedding water. The fish here don't know what to do. And with the cold weather settling in this weekend, they will probably go deep again, until it warms up.