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    Made a visit to our town pond this morning.
    Weather was sunny, to partly cloudy and 59 degrees at 10:30 . But it was windy .
    Weather on my phone said 16mph sustained with gusts to 29mph .
    Started off with a 5’6” Daiwa Trout X AT ULF rod with a Daiwa Fuego LT 1000d rigged with a 1/124th jig with a 1.2” black wiggle wax worm , ice fishing plastic body .
    I put a small weighted 3/4” bobber about 18” above the jig .
    I caught a couple small gill pretty quickly up off the shallow flat , which was about a foot deeper from the 3/4” of rain we had last night . I was happy to see the rain .
    The bite died quickly. I tried a spider fly over a float without any luck after switching to my 6’6” St Croix Premier light .
    The float n jig didn’t cut it .
    Switched to a drop shot setup and caught another small gill . I didn’t care for the longer rod rigged drop shot , so I switched to the 5’6” Daiwa Trout .
    That was the best move . Using a Black Bobby Garland Itty Bitty Swim’R on a 1/80 jighead I caught the three biggest fish of the day . Two nice gills and a decent , beautifully colored redear .
    I left around 1:20 with the wind getting worse .
    I included the small gill for its purple color .
    Drop shot saved the day again .
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    Good job figuring out the bite! Thanks for sharing
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    Awesome. Certainly is windy here
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    Pretty fish no doubt….tough conditions.

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    That's dedication - fighting the wind like that. Congratulations on making some catches in tough conditions.
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    Default 11-28-22

    What a difference a day makes .
    Today temp around 60 with sunny bluebird skies . Mostly light winds .
    And the catching was tough .
    In two hours I only caught three small gills. Threw all kinds of baits at them
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    Caught one on drop shot , two on the float and fly/jig .
    Beautiful day .
    This guy was having a tough time catching lunch .
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    As AH said, pretty colors still holding up for this time of year.
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    I like the colors.


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