02-23-2009, 10:00 AM
Put in at Marion Co. Park at about twelve today. I was not really surprised to see that I was the only person there due to the temp outside being about forty degrees with about a twenty to thirty mile per hour wind! Dressed warm and went to a couple of spots I regularly fish. Wind was blowin so hard my hands were freezin and couldn keep the boat where I needed to be. I had to stop fishin about every ten minutes and warm my hands up! I finally decided to fish another spot and just let the wind blow me down a shallow flat. Managed to get lucky and boat several nice fish! Caught 7 fish in all and best five were around 15 pounds. The fish were bitin, but it was nearly impossible to get em in the boat by myself with three ft. swells. If I would have had a partner we probably would have really put a hurtn on em! Here are a couple of pics, not really good ones. Hard to take a pic of yourself with a cell phone! Caught em all on a crankbait in about 8 ft of water.