Wave Tamer in the wind

With the wind blowing hard the last few days I have been spending a lot of time dragging around the big sock. Using the sock has made boat control easy in the last two outings. It slows down my drifts allowing me to cover the structure fully. The other thing that I have come to like about the sock is that when I get a fish following to the boat, I don’t run them over in the wind. It gives me the chance to stir the pot on a follow and I don’t drift over the fish. These fish were hooked while drifting down the deep weed edges with the big bag out. Slow drifts equal more fish to the boat. The ability to cover water becomes much larger when you can control the boat.

Fishing weed fingers and points has been my main focus. I have been finding a lot of baitfish out over deep water. Working with the boat out in 30-40 feet of water, casting up on the tops of midlake flats that top out at 14 feet has been the ticket in this wind. The fish are moving a lot during specific times depending on moon phase. I have noticed more active fish in the major. I got out today and hit the major just right. Having marked a number of fish on the GPS, I started woking a deep weed finger that has been holding a number of nice fish. I pulled up, threw out the sock, and picked a line to work. I dropped the trolling motor down, truned on the graph, and hucked out my Dunwright Walleys. One rod pump and I got rocked, it was a smaller fish that t-boned the bait and hooks drove home. I was fishing alone, so I got to the back of the boat where I had the net ready, I got this fish up by the boat and into the Beckman she went. One quick photo and she was back down to the depths. I ended the night with a total of 17 fish following to the boat, but was only able to secure the one in the net. I did however, get to make some new fish on the GPS. I found a nice saddle area between two humps, and in this wind, the fish were piled up in there. As we get closer the the full moon, these fish are going to become a lot more active, keep a close eye on the moon phases and the fish activity.

Happy Hunting

Them bags make all the difference in the world in presentation. When you only have to steer and don’t have to worry how fast the boat is moving, plus they do a nice job of stableizing the boat when you are into some rollers. You got ya some nice ones there agian Bob…

Nicely done Bob and thanks for the Tip!

Here’s a great site for moon phases etc.

solunar chart

Great info Bob

Nice fish

Jeremy thats an awesome website

Thanks

I’m just curious but when it says major or minor what is that in refrence too and is it more beneficial to be out on the water on the major or minor or both.

Thanks for the assistance

Majors and minors are peak activity periods in between the rise and fall of the moon. The closer these periods fall inline with the rise and set of the sun, the better chance of have very active fish, and deer (watch the ditch on the drive home from the lake) . So to answer your question about which is better to fish through, I would say BOTH Time on the water will be your best way to really understand what the fish are doing during these times. Weather also plays into this as well. I was on the lake yesterday, working some big fish that I have seen on the last few trips out. Moon rise was my focus yesterday, hoping that these followers would turn into eaters. I hit the lake, had wind, cloud cover,a rise in barometric pressure, and the moon soon to rise. I had two hours of very aggressive fish movment and then it was OVER. The main reason I believe things came to a hault was the fact that the cloud cover went away. Bright blue sky and clear water are the kiss of death. I don’t think there is a right or wrong to all of this data, I will say that the more I pay attention to it, I feel I have a little more in my favor in reguards to setting the hook more often. Keeping records and data of fishing trip is one of the most usefull tools I have. I look back at trips from the past, keying in on water temp, wind direction, sky conditions, time of day or night, sun rise and set, moon phase and all of these things help me make a game plan for my next outing. It gives me starting locations based on past experience. Sometime those plans produce and other times I have to go back to the drawing board. Some of the hardest days of hucking baits are the ones I seem to learn the most from.

Thanks for the info Bob

I’ll be looking into that website Jeremy provided and doing some research

By the way the question begs to be asked, did you manage to put one in the boat last night

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Thanks for the info Bob

I’ll be looking into that website Jeremy provided and doing some research

By the way the question begs to be asked, did you manage to put one in the boat last night

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I did not. The fish moved good for two hours and then it was over.