I fish all winter as well..
BTW... Spring time, I'm all about the large mouth fishing. I fish a "Landownerd only" lake nearby, and catch 4-10lb large mouths all through the spring, at a rate of about 15/day. Demolitionman, I haven't had a chance to fish Erie yet, but I've made a few trips up to Lake Champlain, which I absolutely loved. I've caught so many small mouth up there in a day that I got bored. I also quit fishing normal lakes for about a year after each trip because I get spoiled. I found that a lot of locals don't really even bass fish on that body of water either, which I thought was strange, because it is so easy. I went into a tackle shop, and the guy asked me what we were fishing for. I told him bass and his response was "I didn't even know we had those here"