What is nice about fishing in Minneapolis is that if the wind is too strong to fish my 32nd oz jig heads in one place, there is another that is protected from the wind out of that direction. I just move. This time of the year, if there is a good sun, then fishing in waters protected from the wind, is also generally in the warmer waters available. It pays to have more than one "favorite" crappie fishing spot.

For fishing in the teeth of a stiff breeze cast directly into the wind but not over hand. Side arm it or dock shoot it just over the top of the waves and retrieve directly down the direction of the wind. That produces less line to be caught and distorted by the wind resulting in straighter casts and straighter, better controlled retrieves. You hit those point on the point spots a whole lot better. That works pretty well a lot times from an open shoreline anyway. IMO a lot of the time heavy waves result in too much bobber action when the wind is stiff; so I seldom use them above a certain wind level. I generally want only a soft jigging influence from a bobber, for more and easier to identify bite.