We're well past ice-out, and by now anglers have greater open water fishing opportunities presenting themselves. Ponds, flowages, drainage lakes, backwaters, swamps, rivers, and channels would be such places to start looking at. Pursuing early season largemouths has always been engaging and enjoyable. In my boat, more heavyweight largemouths get caught in spring than rest of the year combined. Catching big largemouths on a steady basis isn’t easy however. While fish movements from ice out to pre-spawn is generally predictable, those specific movements and their whereabouts will vary on a lake-by-lake basis. The beauty of fishing the Northwoods, is the diversity of our lakes and their bass fisheries. Not one of them fishes the same as the other! There are no shortcuts to consistently catching trophy largemouth bass in spring, but there are certain strategies and methods you can implement to improve your success. In my lake selection, location is first and foremost. You should always want to be on waters that warm quickest, but also offer adequate habitats as it relates to the spring season. The success of early spring largemouth bass fishing in the northwood