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Do you like fishing windy days or do you prefer calmer waters?
Id rather fish calmer days on my river. Today was windy though and I still caught some fish. The problem with wind is I am in a kayak so if I try to fish a laydown I'll get blown past it and I can't pick it apart without alot of maneuvering and repositioning. I have been doing great with craw patterns the last few weeks and then 3 days ago the bass stopped biting the craw and started biting shakey and wacky worms. Took me a day to figure them out! Idk what made them change though. 🤷
On my lakes due to the best fishing now I can have is had by working a weightless fluke rigged weedless between sections of lily pads and over submerged weeds minimal wind and minimal waves are my best most productive days as you really need to retrieve your fluke as close to the lily pads as you can to get max numbers of bites and if it's to wavy you can't see the lily pads clearly to make maximum accurate casts
I still catch plenty of bass on windy days with moderate waves just about 30-50% fewer as in 2 bass and hour vs 3 or 4
It just amazes me I need be only a 1-2' off a edge of lily pads vs dead next to it and I catch 25-50% fewer bass
Also 90% of my best outings where I catch 10-20+ bass are on dead calm days more evenings than mornings
I learned many years ago to set your expectations of the size of bass you will catch 100% on what is tha lagit average size of bass in any given lake or river
Do not expect or hinge your success on catching bass 5lbs or heavier if they're are very very few of them in the lakes you fish
In the 4 lakes I fish a bass over 5lbs is very rare especially from shore but they all have significant numbers of bass in the 2.5-3.5lb class with
(my favorite lake is absolutely lousy with 3lb-3.5lb bass and I personally will take catch 100 bass over 3lbs in three months vs a few bass over 5lbs any time) 4-4.5lb bass not all that uncommon I use this information in my selection of luers and noticed a significant increase in the numbers of bass I caught when I downsized all of my faster moving luers especially a very significant increase in bass caught using 1/4oz-3/8oz chatterbaits and spinnerbaits vs 1/2oz
Why?
Simple
Because all the lakes I fish are 90% muck bottom and weed choked by early May and there are huge areas were weeds are between 1-3' below the surface and a 1/4 and 3/8oz chatterbaits and spinnerbaits are much easier to work in a puse, slow down, speed up, erratic retrieve over submergent vegitation and stay out if the weeds VS a 1/2oz or heavier chatterbaits or spinnerbaits and I can work them very slowly and still stay above submerged weeds
The bass in these lakes absolutely can not resist a smaller chatterbait or spinnerbaits but absolutely 1/4oz chatterbaits worked dead slow then with short bursts of max speed then a pause and erratically as I can absolutely murders the bass from March till deer hunting takes me away from bass fishing
Also I get more successful hookups on 5"-5.5" fluke types baits than larger 7" or 8" yes I get TONS of bites on 7" Zoom Super flukes and 6" and 7" paddle tail baits but because I can not attach a stinger hook (have to rig them 100% weedless) to them I miss a lot of fish because they are smaller bass under 4lbs and have more difficulty getting a much bigger bait in thier mouths up to the section of the bait that has my hook in it even tried going to a 5/0 from a 4/0 hook then a 6/0 but didn't help and I noticed with a 6/0 I got fewer bites due to the obvious reduction in action the bait had due to the much larger hook
I really need to get my kayak I bought up and in use as there are HUGE areas very difficult to access with a fishing boat due to weeds and shallower depths that would be perfect for a kayak
Hey Lowbrow, I saw drop your red favorite rod in the lake. Here a tip to get it back. Take metal stringer open all the hooks up, but one tie a cord to the single end. Then cast out where you think it dropped in . Drag the bottom with open stringer. With any luck, you will hook in your lost rod.
Another great tip, how you keep coming up with these great ideas is amazing. Thank you for your expertise.
I sorta like a breeze. Keeps me from sweating my ass off.
I have a bomber shallow A in a chartreuse and black that I like throwing in the fall. I like how I can use it near structure.
I love fishing current and wind. A spinnerbait or a chatterbait are the best choices for working current seams along the bank. When I know the wind is blowing, I know the bass are biting!
RIP red spinner. It was bright red. It was ugly. But it caught fish
Thanks for another nice tip! Never really thought about it! Have a great weekend brother!
I don't mind some wind because it turns the bite on. but I don't want 20+ mph winds blowing. That's just a pain!
There's a spot on my leg where the wind comes blowing between two points. There's some rocks and laydowns on one side. I've caught small fish in front of them but I've never tried fishing behind them. I wonder if that's where the big girls are
I want a 10 mph wind