Being this was a "home" lake for us. We tried to do our very best to put people on the fish. The wind played a major role in our presentation and we had to change up or original plans as the wind would not allow for us to pitch light plastics in towards the weeds.

We located pods of fish holding at about 10ft down over 14 to 18 ft of water. This is very unusual for Woodburn lake. It is usually loaded with fish but they are scattered all over the place. This particular day was the first time I have ever seen them school in big numbers.

The fish wanted the bait moving. And they did not want a vertical presentation. Early in the morning, a size 1/8oz jig running about 12 foot gave you enough swing back to put the presentation in the fish's strike zone. As the day progressed, we switched over to long lining 1/16 oz jigs. Our best colors were in the green variety with chartreuse, lime green, and green chartreuse being the top colors. I attempted vertical jigging and I did catch one fish but spot lock didn't want to cooperate and I spent the next 5 minutes removing the prop on the trolling motor to untangle line.

I did long line soft plastics however the fish were light biting. The wind made it difficult to sense the bite and it was pushing the boat between .8 and 1.1mph. Minnows gave a better option but the key was to hold the rod in your hand and "chug" it every so often. We ended up keeping 22 fish. I also caught two pike including one really nice one that I should have kept for pickleing.

Kevin and Uncle Al.
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Don, Bill, and Jimmy doing a little spider rigging.
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Special thanks to Al and his wife Andrea for setting up another great camp. We had lots of food and enough fish this time!