The wind was at 10 to 15 when we left Hall's Landing at 0630 yesterday. I ran straight to my sand bar that produced Wednesday. Bouyed it off and settled in for what I expected to be a long, rough day. All of the conditions were wrong for bass fishing. Saturday night/Sunday morning was the full moon. A cold front was sitting on top of us. The barrometric pressure must have been sky high. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. The wind was blowing. And, to add to the negatives, the entire lake is still muddy.
First cast, rattle trap (not carolina rigged), produced a keeper bass. HMMMM! 10 more casts, and nothing. Switched to a carolina rig. Second cast produced a short. At about 0730 I snagged my carolina rig, and jerked it to free it up, and started reeling it in. A small bass hit it while being reeled in.
Picked up the rattle trap, and got bit as soon as it hit the water. A keeper. 5 more casts produced 3 more keepers. Then, no more hits. But I now have 5 keepers. However, they're all small. Gotta have some better fish. So, I switched back to the carolina rig, and stayed with it. At about 1000 the wind kicked up about 4 notches. But I was still getting bites. So I decided to stay on my sand bar. I increased the speed on the trolling motor, pointed the boat into the wind, and stayed there. At about 1045 it payed off. Boated a 3.74 lb. fish.To shorten this story, I moved off of the sand bar for about an hour in the middle of the day. Couldn't get bit in sheltered water, and went back to the sand bar. I caught fish all day, probably around 50 bass. Most were about 10" long.
The wind was out of the northwest at about 25 to 30 mph. The water surface temp was 67 degrees at daylight, and never got any warmer. The fish were holding on this particular sand bar.
At the end of the day I had a limit of fish that totaled 10.76 pounds. FINALLY, that was enough to win.
