Another windy trip

Yup, it's a regular thing around here these days. Low humidity day but very breezy and I said to heck with it, I'm going anyway. We had rain in the forecast for today. A comfortable 82 at waters edge and surface water temps about 77 or so. I launched a few minutes before 5, with a steady wind from the NE.
I'd made up my mind on the way up that I was going to troll up the basin and let the wind push me back over that deep water and see if I could find some fish. I found lots of bait balls but sonar didn't show any larger marks anywhere near them and no bites were to be found; so much for that plan. Speed drifting might have worked for Rich and Walt but I don't get the results that they did.
I moved over toward the edge of the basin and followed the deeper contour out away from the weed line and finally picked up 2 nice bluegill, about 8" each.

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Took me well over an hour to find these 2 and the wind I expected to fight all night began to ease off and by 6:30 I'd have flat water to fish for the rest of the evening.
I eased over to a favorite spot and began casting different lures trying to find something they'd hit. Fishing slow and fishing deep I finally fooled the first crappie.

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A few casts later, a big hit and a tough fight before this one came to the surface.

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Small lures will catch big fish.
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I'd work that area until it got to be time to troll for home, landing a couple more single pole casting.
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The trolling back to the beach would produce one each of another 'gill and crappie and I hit shore about 8:10.
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Although not many fish were landed, I did enjoy the evening and will hopefully get in another trip this weekend.

Congratulations on another fine outing. Thanks for sharing

Good job and trip. Thanks for sharing

Another good evening trip. Glad to see the break in the weather. Keep up the good times. Tight lines.

Nice catches