Reply With Quoterig an anchor on each end of the boat. rig it so you can raise and lower it from one place in the boat. that should help hold you steady but the wind will still blow your line and make it harder to detect strikes.
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Windy today.....frustrating
I'd like some input on how you handle windy days on small waters. I only have a small 12' rowboat, no motor of any kind. I fish small waters, mostly 100 acres or less due to my equipment. Today was particularly frustrating. The weather was changing for the better thanks to a front going through. The wave and wind action prevented me from my usual technique of swimming my jigs as I usually do, watching the line for strikes as well as feeling them. With a single anchor, I was swinging around like the hands of a clock so the vertical and near vertical jigging was next to useless. Should have brought a 2nd anchor I guess. I had a float (garden variety, not a slip-float type).
This gave me a chance to keep the jig in the vicinity of the weedlines I was working but I couldn't get too deep with it and my best fish today seemed to be deeper than expected. I caught quite a few bass today, in fact they were the majority of what I did catch but they were not of legal length, doggone it. I would have kept them if they were.
What advice would you have for me to consider for future trips? I'm mainly a pan fisherman; bluegill, crappie and yellow perch are my quarry for the most part.
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rig an anchor on each end of the boat. rig it so you can raise and lower it from one place in the boat. that should help hold you steady but the wind will still blow your line and make it harder to detect strikes.
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X2 what oldduckhunter said and always if fishing any depth u don't say use a slip float not a fixed. Old fixed float OK if fishing sy 4 foot or less but even then a slip will allow longer cast and cut down on wind blown lines.....................
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x4 on anchors and slip floats.
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