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24 February 2018 skunked

379 views 3 replies 2 participants last post by  twaskom 
#1 ·
I was very prepared and launched at 0630. Dry but extremely windy and tons of dark clouds rolling. Very overcast. Tried shallow then in between and then deep then just before noon back shallow to dig in and make my final stand. Thought about getting some pics but too disgusted. Needed a go-pro so I could have video of yelling at pelicans eyeballing my topwater. (I had five baited lines out but took my 5000D out to throw topwater for redfish).
Every place I stopped I said well this is it I'm fixing to get me one.....and nothing ever happened.
Sitting in the boat I looked up the barometric pressure it had fallen all day. Finally I said if I don't catch a fish by 1500 I'm out. And that's what happened. Really wierd... usually when the weather is bad I catch fish. We did have a front roll in because it is colder the next day (today). Maybe I was out there during the front coming in but I never felt any cooler air despite gale force winds. I was going to be out there a day earlier but had stuff to do. Maybe that was the day.
Didn't even lose a bait or get a bite all day. (shoulders shrugged and hands up in the air)
 
#2 ·
Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear get you. But it sounds like you gave it a good try and varied your locations enough to cover almost all the possibilities. Glad you were able to get out. Waters here are swollen out of their banks and will need a little time to settle down.

tight lines
 
#3 ·
Thanks Tom not much to see here but I'm trying to compile and organise information. The wind made boat control a real challenge. I may have to give the two anchor method a try after swinging back and forth all day....
If nothing else I get some exercise from all of this but I vowed yesterday to only start going on week days.
If I was a guide some folks would be getting refunds.
 
#4 ·
I have tried the two anchor method a few times. It still leaves sone room for swaying but not as bad. But you will have to use some longer anchor rope to set them out correctly and get them to hold. Also you then have two places where a big cat can get you wrapped up. Still, you gotta do what you gotta do.

In the spring, when the air is much warmer than the water, and the wind is up, I tend to try the bank area that the warm wind is pushing into. My thoughts would be that the warm winds are heating the water and pushing it to one side of the lake. If there is a point on that side, then that location has two things going for it.

Of course when everything fails, try something else. :bruised:

All guides get skunked on occasion, they just don't like to talk about it.

tight lines
 
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