Since it's a cold and rainy weekend on the west side, I decided to drive over to Stan Coffin and try it out. Heard lots of good things about this lake, and love that it's CnR for Bass. After a 2+ hour drive, I had the lake to myself other than a few guys throwing roostertails off the bank.

Hit the water at 1pm. The water temp was between 57-59, so still a little chilly but the bite was working. Caught 5 in about 4 hours of fishing. The first two were caught right out in the middle, just east of the boat launch. Caught one on a pumpkinseed jig with a rootbeer/gold glitter grub, caught one on a green/chartreuse Yum Dinger. Both were caught in 4' of water. Then the wind picked up. Bad. I was in a float tube and at one point the wind was blowing me east, faster than I've ever gone in a float tube.

I finally hid behind the south rock cropping and found some still water, started throwing a watermelon and red flake 5" senko and dragging it off the rocks into the slop. The wind kept blowing me east and I decided it was time to head back to the car. Started trolling the senko, fighting the wind, and hooked two more in this manner - the biggest of the day was just over 3 pounds.

If the wind hadn't been so bad I know I would have caught more fish, but when you're in a tube and spinning around in circles, the fish would rather laugh at you than grab your line.

The grass is THICK on this lake, even this early in the season. I imagine you could walk across this lake in the summer, just by jumping from weed bed to weed bed. But I did see SEVERAL fresh spawn beds already being dug out in 2' water all along the north shore, so they're moving in and starting to get to work. Another week of weather like they had last week and the spawn will be just about ready to go at Stan Coffin.