high winds

[Guest avid]

It's windy out there today, but I'm gonna wait a few hours and go.

Winds are 15-20 knots with gusts up to 30.

I have fished these conditions before but usually because they blew up unexpedectly.  

It can be alotta fun.  Six Flags over Avid.

I wouldn't attempt it without the canoe stabilizers, a good pfd, and my 55 lb thrust MK.

So I'm thinking spinnerbait, jigs or pegged weighted plastics, swimbaits, and crankers.

I don't remember how I usually do with topwaters, and my log doesnt' show anything.

Whaddya think?

[GatorBK]

I think its windy as heck here too I want to get out there myself> , I think I will wait a bit . I dunno about the soft plastic thing today , its so windy here a weightless soft plastic will swim on its own. I might start with a rattl trap today. As far as the topwater it may work , I caught several yesterday evening on one but it wasnt quite this windy. I would use a noisy topwater maybe a prop bait , one with rattles in it , or a popper.  The lake I fish here in FL is clear water and I catch more on topwater with a light wind because the bass arent so spooky , but today is more than a little wind.

Good Luck

[Raul]

It's windy out there today, but I'm gonna wait a few hours and go.

Winds are 15-20 knots with gusts up to 30.

I have fished these conditions before but usually because they blew up unexpedectly.

It can be alotta fun. Six Flags over Avid.

I wouldn't attempt it without the canoe stabilizers, a good pfd, and my 55 lb thrust MK.

So I'm thinking spinnerbait, jigs or pegged weighted plastics, swimbaits, and crankers.

I don't remember how I usually do with topwaters, and my log doesnt' show anything.

Whaddya think?

Heddon Torpedo  

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

I'm thinking "drift anchor"

[justfishin]

Same high wind here Avid. I feel beat up. Two foot rollers and you had to wrap your leg around the butt seat to stay in the boat,lol. We had a cold front as well. I fished for two hours before I finally got a handle on them. I stayed with a 1/2 oz spinnerbait in white with Indiana gold blades and we managed 35 green ones on the wind blown shores on the outside of the coves. My biggest was 4-14. Man, w :)e really had to work for those fish. I am couch bound, I am getting to old for this stuff. My buddy stuck with his no. 7 Shad Rap and did well also.

[linesider7]

I have to admit it, I hate this wind.  I'm pretty lucky, I live very close to a low lying lake, that's pretty protected from the wind.  That's where I've been fishing lately.  Going to crack of dawn it tomorrow on the big lake, keeping my fingers crossed.

[heathen]

Dealt with high winds and lots of fishing pressure today myself. Did pretty decent considering the conditions with a 1/2oz spinnerbait and a texas rigged Sweet Beaver.

18" - 24" chop on a small lake, winds 15-20mph with gusts of 30mph. Had the best luck in the stumps but it was like manouvering in a mine field do to the wind. But still managed 15 LM with a best of 4.5lbs.

[Catt]

I feel you pain Dude, we had that weather yesterday  

When facing windy one must consider is it windy because of pre-frontal conditions, post frontal conditions, or high pressure blue bird sky conditions. Each of the above mentioned conditions require different approaches to try and scratch out a limit.

Pre-frontal conditions are the easiest to address because the bass should remain active until the actual day of the front. One should be able to catch bass in protected coves and on the back side of points. Just as mentioned wind blown points can be very productive but my I suggest you approach from the backside working you're way toward the end where the wind comes around the point.

Post frontal and high pressure conditions are a little more difficult to unlock due to the fact the bass will be highly inactive. The key areas will remain the same but you should plan on fishing real slow and tight to cove.

Bait presentations would be any thing you can cast easily with out back lashing; usually heavier lures. One should also consider fishing deep instead of shallower because deeper bass are less affected by frontal conditions. Due to safety factors I would avoid main lake structure and instead concentrate on deep structure in areas with tall trees or high banks that offer protection from the wind.

[Cajun1977]

prop baits with the front prop bent forward

[jomatty]

in conditions like that i always try to get the spinnerbait or trap bite going first.  i would think ripping a trap along the edges of the grass beds would be something i might start with if i was in fl. (althogh i dont know the specifics of Avids lake)  is that kinda like lakist profiling or something, like a cop pulling over a black man, or assuming a white guy has a small...if so i didnt mean to imply that all lakes in fl are grassy shallow.  if this one is though...try the trap and spinnerbait...also might be a good day to finally hang a hawg on one of those big swimbaits.  i like topwater in the wind, especially if i get some cloudcover.  i think it has to do with the breaking up of the surface or something but it seems to work...

[GatorBK]

I used a buzz bait yesterday in the wind and caught a couple , then I put on a topwater and caught several more. The topwater was floating around like a small boat in the ocean but bass were hitting it.

Its still windy as heck again today :-?

[gatrboy53]

fished the stump fields of rodmans sat. the wind was 15/20out of the n.e.thats tough on the open flats at rodmans.had a good day 18 fish .most came on a bagleys balsa B,burned then stopped. onc ethe wind got to howling i switched to traps and continued to catch fish.

[jacksize]

boy you're not kidding about the wind, i fish here in west palm area too. the good side to this ( i think), the wind is helping churn the water columm and it seems the bass are more active.

don't need to tell you how low the lakes are, so i've been wading knee to thigh deep for the last two mos. the last few days the waters are considerbly cooler and more than just dinks have been hitting really hard. just my observation. does anyone else thinks so???

also, top water has been awsome the last few days.

[GatorBK]

I have been catching some 4 to 6 pounders but a lots of small ones , my biggest bass have been in the wind on topwater. I catch little ones on worms lately I even swiched to a 10 inch worm and caught even smaller bass???

[Guest avid]

I have been catching some 4 to 6 pounders but a lots of small ones , my biggest bass have been in the wind on topwater. I catch little ones on worms lately I even swiched to a 10 inch worm and caught even smaller bass???

What topwater do you like in the wind?

[GatorBK]

I have been using a Heddon Pop N image its like a Pop R but I like tha action better. I cast it into the wind to keep the bow out of my line ,and it works better retriving it with the waves than against them . I twitch it a couple times and pause it . Kind of a walk the dog action with the 2 or 3 twitches at the same time I make it splash the water in front of it instead of the deep popping sound or action. If I cast it with the wind I cannot get the right retrieve or spalshing action  because the nose of it digs into the waves .

I tried a buzzbait in a protected cove and caught a couple and missed a couple more but it didnt work as well in the rough water.

Also I havent tried it down here but when I lived in NC the bass there liked a devil horse on windy days . I would rip it a few feet making commotion on the water . But it seems the bass here may not like as much commotion  on topwater as other places.

[GatorBK]

I tried 2 new lures today I have never fished with senko so I got some. They worked well in the wind while it was sunny out I rigged them wacky style with no weight and caught several the biggest about 3 pounds

Then it got cloudy and was sprinkling and I tried a chug bug and caught several off it

[FL_fisher]

the wind has been relentless lately

[George Welcome]

BK, do you kill every fish that you catch? Every pic you post has the fish lying in the dirt!

[RoLo]

I haven't lived in Florida as long as some of the fellows.

Just a few days ago I spoke with Mickie at Hoppy's Marine and he promised me

that he has never seen a windier year in Florida in his entire life.

I was glad to hear that, because if this doesn't quit soon I'm off to Belize in the horse latitudes :

Roger

[fourbizz]

Throw that King Kong ALL DAY!!!!!!!

[Guest avid]

I feel you pain Dude, we had that weather yesterday

When facing windy one must consider is it windy because of pre-frontal conditions, post frontal conditions, or high pressure blue bird sky conditions. Each of the above mentioned conditions require different approaches to try and scratch out a limit.

Pre-frontal conditions are the easiest to address because the bass should remain active until the actual day of the front. One should be able to catch bass in protected coves and on the back side of points. Just as mentioned wind blown points can be very productive but my I suggest you approach from the backside working you're way toward the end where the wind comes around the point.

Post frontal and high pressure conditions are a little more difficult to unlock due to the fact the bass will be highly inactive. The key areas will remain the same but you should plan on fishing real slow and tight to cove.

Bait presentations would be any thing you can cast easily with out back lashing; usually heavier lures. One should also consider fishing deep instead of shallower because deeper bass are less affected by frontal conditions. Due to safety factors I would avoid main lake structure and instead concentrate on deep structure in areas with tall trees or high banks that offer protection from the wind.

What about "Chronic conditions"  ;D

[Catt]

Avid,

Since Thanksgiving to now I've not be able to fish Toledo Bend because of medical problems in my immediate family. I have not been on Toledo Bend since March; my fishing is limited to Lacassine Wildlife Refuge which is a shallow marsh. Fishing a marsh limits where you can cast to start with and this wind cuts that in half. This much wind is not usual for Southwest Louisiana, so I'm still trying to crack it with only limited success.

All the big bass I've caught recently has been with a Texas Rigged Worm with a 1/8 oz weight; try casting that in a 20-25 mph wind. I've tried going with a heavier weight but that only buries your worm in the grass. Top water bite has been nil & void, I can cast a Senko a mile with this wind but the bass will not touch it. So what bass I've been catching has been on a 3/16 oz Stanley Spinner Bait or a ¼ oz Rat-L-Trap.

[Guest avid]

Het Catt,

Sorry to hear bout your family.  Hope things improve real fast.

This wind has got me whipped.  I haven't unlocked any reliable pattern.  It's almost like the bass have a hotline or something.  I catch one or two on a certain bait, then it dies.  I'll toss another bunch of baits, get another one - maybe, but then that lure is done.  and so on.

I haven't caught anything over 3 lbs. or any numbers of bass since the wind rolled into town a few weeks ago.

[Catt]

I aint noticed you fishing beside me, I'm on the same stupid pattern  :-?