Spinner Baits in the Wind

The wind came up Saturday afternoon as I was heading into one of my favorite
backwater lakes. I caught three fish on a spinner bait in a classic windy
weather position. I cast directly into the windward face of a tuly line.
Three fish in five casts. Then nothing. I kept at it for about 2 hours,
but nothing worked. I tried retrieving into and across windward points,
casting into windward tulie lines, and senkoing protected leeward spots.
Nothing produced.

Since the bite was so perfectly classic for the first couple minutes with a
spinner bait I wondered what I could have done to improve that bite
afterwards?

Maybe I just got lucky and caught all the active fish right off the bat?
Some how I doubt that.

What would you have done?


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Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com

Spinner Baits in the Wind

Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 11:45am (CDT-2)
From: (Bob*La*Londe)
The wind came up Saturday afternoon as I was heading into one of my
favorite backwater lakes. I caught three fish on a spinner bait in a
classic windy weather position. I cast directly into the windward face
of a tuly line. Three fish in five casts. Then nothing. I kept at it for
about 2 hours, but nothing worked. I tried retrieving into and across
windward points, casting into windward tulie lines, and senkoing
protected leeward spots. Nothing produced.
Since the bite was so perfectly classic for the first couple minutes
with a spinner bait I wondered what I could have done to improve that
bite afterwards?
Maybe I just got lucky and caught all the active fish right off the bat?
Some how I doubt that.
What would you have done?
--
Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com
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Bob, did the wind change at all? Sometimes when the wind dies down a
bit, you need to change strategies...a different bait! I have fished the
"river" when the wind was really blowing, and had really good luck with
the spinners, but when it started to die down, I swiched to soft
plastics fished deeper...worked for me sometimes. .

Geez...it can get windy out there in Arizona! grin. God, I miss that
river!!!!

John K