Windy Road Trip

Neil was once again out with me today but due to the giant winds, we had to relocate. The waters I have been concentrating on lately were just too big to even think about going on! Winds were blowing from the W/SW at over 25 knots at times and it just wasn’t safe. It would be my first road trip this season!

It was a little earlier than I usually fish the area but I was sure I could get Neil into some good bass. We started out in the shallows with blades and unfortunately Neil only came up with one small one. Out to deeper water we went and a few more small fish were landed as well. We were on the hunt for bigger and better and covered all kinds of water, trying to find them! It wasn’t easy in the wind but somehow we managed!

Our morning had been less than productive but there were high hopes for the afternoon. I had many strikes on all kinds of baits but for some reason they weren’t getting pinned well. Eventually a couple of them stayed on and were brought to the boat though and things were starting to look up. Or so I thought!

We had fished from shallow to mid to deep and never really got into any sort of concentration. All I could do is keep rotating areas and hope for the best.

Towards the latter part of the day, Neil managed to catch a few real quality smallies and we thought they had finally turned on. Unfortunately the remainder of the day saw little evidence of this as we continued to just pick a fish here & there. After one last stop and one more good fish we were done!

I had made a judgment call and gone to another lake due to the weather and salvaged the day. It looks like we were a bit early in the season to get into the high numbers that I am use to seeing, but at least we fished somewhere on this beautiful sunny day. Hopefully the weather will change for tomorrow and I can resume fishing locally once again. Either way I know I will get into a bunch of decent fish!