The bad news…I’ve got one of worst cases of wind burn I’ve ever had this morning and thought my contacts were going to fuse to my eyeballs yesterday. Must have really tough for anybody that dared to venture out much further to the south.
The good (great) news is that the catching yesterday was in my top five for the big pond as far as quantity and quality were concerned. We boated 38 eyes on the north end sand (between 18-20 feet) and didn’t even fish either of the prime times. Seemed like there were two primary size groups for our boat…14-17 inchers (about 3/4 of the catch), with the other class falling between 23-26 inches. For us, they showed a strong preference for crawlers on a plain hook with a couple of beads in front (red/glow or red/chartreuse combo), up through mid afternoon and turned over to leeches (same set up) after the one little squall passed and the sun started sliding off to the west. Saw lots of other fish caught today. Great day to be fishing and catching 
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It was more the perstistence of the wind in your face that wore us down. The couple of times I’d say we saw three footers make a showing were when the wind shifted a bit more westward and the fetch increased. After that little squall went through late afternoon, she settled down significantly.
I haven’t told the wife yet that we need a new camera 
