Thread: Lemmon today,,wind!!!

Went to Lemmon today and got on the lake at 7:45 am and long lined jigs till 9am putting 2--10.5 inch crappies in the box out of a dozen that I had snagged as most were 9'' or smaller releasing them. With water temps 62.5 I decided to use the 12' rods and Okuma Line Counter reels with bandits, and loaded 200;s on and picked up another 12 keepers. Wind picked up about 10am and by 11 am was in 1 to 3' whitecaps as I prefer to fish the windy banks and made for a long day of fighting the boat and keeping fish hooked on the bandits..lost 3 really nice crappies as I just couldn;t get them in the boat due to the rocking and rolling as we had 30 to 40 mph gusts. I did have 65 degree water on the windy banks and all fish came out of 5-10' depths at a speed off 1.4 to 2.0 mph when they hit. the slower the better, but boat control was unreal. Caught about 50 total releasing most as kept 14 from 10-12". Fish quit hitting about 2 and at 3pm quit. I have fished 4 times now and fought the wind trying to long line jigs and now cranks. Here's a pic.