Wind ? What Wind ?

Sunny , with Temps in the low 50’s today , so you got to go fishing and compare a couple more combos , Right ?
But what about the wind ? 14mph with gusts over 27 out of the West . If it’d been cloudy or cooler , I would have stayed home .
Fishing from the sunny side of the town pond , facing the pond , the wind was primarily blowing from about four o’clock. I wish it’d been behind me .
I took my 6’6” TFO Trout & Panfish II , paired with a KastKing Zephyr 1000 SFS , new model . 2# Floroclear is being used on all reels unless noted .m
The other combo was a 4’10” Major Craft Finetail Glass UL , paired with a Shimano Stradic 1000FJ , the old white one .

I started with the MC Glass , casting a 4.6mm tungsten jig with a mini trout magnet body .
I caught a couple LM bass that were a treat on the little glass stick .
Using the MC glass rod I didn’t feel handicapped at all . My casts were as long as I’ve been getting with my longer rods and I had no problem feeling the .87g jig , even with the wind .

I switched over to the longer TFO rod and was surprised I didn’t get any casting advantage with the longer rod and this is with the KK SFS reel that was the winner last year in my driveway casting experiments I did last year .
I caught a LM on the TFO and then switched over to a 3.0mm tungsten hair jig under a float . Fishing the float n jig I managed to catch a couple of nice bluegills. It took several casts with a slow retrieve to catch the gills . I caught one just letting the wind blow the rig , drifting from my right to left . A good way to cover some area .
I put up the TFO and took the MC Glass to the other side of the pond .
It was tough being on the side with the wind blowing almost directly into the bank . I found one corner where I was able to work my jig enough to catch a couple more small LM’s .
Five LM and two bluegills in almost two hours of fighting with the wind . Still fun getting out .

I plan on swapping the reels and taking the MC Glass back next trip with the KastKing SFS reel .

Better than work any day. Good job.

Sure beats what I did today. Glad that you got out and put your skills to the test in the strong wind. Good Job!

Nice catches sir. Wish we had your temperatures here

Better than my trip. I made to the ramp, backed the boat in, and watched the waves drench me from the side. Loaded back on the trailer and headed back home. Decided to go to the farm pond after changing

First nice day we've had in a while. Just had to wet a line.