Windy today.....frustrating
I'd like some input on how you handle windy days on small waters. I only have a small 12' rowboat, no motor of any kind. I fish small waters, mostly 100 acres or less due to my equipment. Today was particularly frustrating. The weather was changing for the better thanks to a front going through. The wave and wind action prevented me from my usual technique of swimming my jigs as I usually do, watching the line for strikes as well as feeling them. With a single anchor, I was swinging around like the hands of a clock so the vertical and near vertical jigging was next to useless. Should have brought a 2nd anchor I guess. I had a float (garden variety, not a slip-float type).
This gave me a chance to keep the jig in the vicinity of the weedlines I was working but I couldn't get too deep with it and my best fish today seemed to be deeper than expected. I caught quite a few bass today, in fact they were the majority of what I did catch but they were not of legal length, doggone it. I would have kept them if they were.
What advice would you have for me to consider for future trips? I'm mainly a pan fisherman; bluegill, crappie and yellow perch are my quarry for the most part.