08-02-2012, 05:11 PM
I've done well with plastics there before, but when it's that windy I usually try cranks first. They were hitting them aggressively enough that I stuck with it. I did try throwing a stick worm up into the pockets in the shoreline weeds, but the wind made that too difficult, it would just whisk the worm across the surface. I put it on a shaky head and tried that for a bit during that lull after the storm, but I only had one light tap on that.
Last year, when the water was really high and clear, I caught a lot of nice ones on a drop shot in about 18-20 feet of water. This year the water is low enough that I'm not even seeing water that deep on the finder. The year before last, there was an algae bloom too, but the fish were a little deeper and I cleaned up with a shaky head.
I figure, as long as the fish are up shallow and aggressive, I'm going to take advantage of that. I think part of it is that every time I've been there lately, it has just been so dang windy.
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Last year, when the water was really high and clear, I caught a lot of nice ones on a drop shot in about 18-20 feet of water. This year the water is low enough that I'm not even seeing water that deep on the finder. The year before last, there was an algae bloom too, but the fish were a little deeper and I cleaned up with a shaky head.
I figure, as long as the fish are up shallow and aggressive, I'm going to take advantage of that. I think part of it is that every time I've been there lately, it has just been so dang windy.
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