Well, as I sat in my chair this morning, eating breakfast and gazing out the window watching the tree limbs and garbage can lids fly by, I thought to myself "do I really want to go fishing today?"... Well, yes I did, so I hooked up the "old Tracker" and off I went, after all if you're a fair weather fisherman in this state you aren't going to fish much!! Besides, I figured if it was just too rough on the water I could always hit the Sportsman's Warehouse in Mount Vernon! I launched the boat into the mouth of the whitecaps and motored headlong into the wind. I was using a drop shot rig with a 1 ounce weight due to the wind, and a 6' leader with a green Robo-worm nose hooked. I would get on the up wind side of a point, and blow back across dragging the rig along the bottom, but using my trolling motor to slow the presentation. If I felt anything unusual (aside from the grass) I set the hook, especially in this wind!! The first hook up was after about an hour or so, I was in about 20' on a point that extends out to 35' when I felt the tap and pull...I set the hook, woohoo, went 4.1lbs on the digital scale it's pictured next to.... The second fish was 3.5lbs doing the exact same thing! I lost one other cause I was too slow on the hook set and she spit me! It was rough as heck, snow and hail took turns whacking me in the face, and you know how on cold days the snot runs down on your top lip all day?? No chance of that, the wind blew it right over the side of the boat all afternoon! Gross but true! Water temps were 42-43 degrees, and by the time I left it was a blizzard all the way to the south end of Mount Vernon...I don't care though, cause I came home smelling like a bass!! I can't wait til the water temps warm up and the fish move for shallower water, but I am not complaining!!

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