One thing is for sure...we are still a bit ahead of schedule as far as water temps and spawn this year (although things have evened out some recently). I think it will remain to be seen how that may affect fishing, and it's too early to draw any conclusions.

I have been out 7 times and we've boated 8 and lost 2. Not great numbers, but not bad either for early spring. The most impressive thing I've noticed so far this spring is an average size of 43" on fish we've boated, but that may have more to do with where we've been fishing than anything else.

I always have my normal rotation of PA and OH lakes I hit in the spring before I go to LSC in June. If these warm trends continue, I'll probably be looking for different patterns and fish locations where I fish in the spring because of the warmer temps. In other words, I might be looking for summer patterns on lakes I'm not used to fishing during summer type temps. That might be challenging.

I have heard or talked with a couple people that said the last time we had a mild winter and warm spring like this was 1998, and fishing was great. That was our first year seriously muskie fishing, so I can't compare numbers to what we do now, but I do know we got some big fish that year.

Good luck to everyone. I hope it is a "record year".

Adam A.