Let's be honest here, the sunnies and the crappies and even the perch never really stopped biting and they don't all year around, but we are finally deep into the spring patterns with spawning due to start soon in the shallowest, warmest southern waters and all across the state in the next couple to few weeks, if the temperatures stay up.

Once spawning starts I shift over to carp for a couple of weeks and let the panfish do their thing; there are far too many harvesters who would follow us around, many of whom couldn't find the beds on their own if they fell into them.