Windy Crappie

Temps got down around forty last night with a front coming in behind the heavy rain we had the night before last.
With the front came the wind , 17mph with gusts over 35 .
I waited until after lunch to give it a try after it had warmed up to around sixty .
The lake was full pool and muddy . The wind coming in from the west was blowing straight in on me for almost the entire shoreline that’s available for bank fishing , making it almost impossible to fish .
I wound up on the northern most end of the area which has a wooded point that helped a little at breaking the wind .
I had little hope of catching anything , but lady luck was on my side .
In a little over an hour I manage to catch four crappies using my tungsten bead jigs with a shortened TM .
I was using my 6’ St Croix Premier UL paired with a Shimano Sienna 500 reel spooled with blue Daiwa J Braid X8 and 4# Floroclear.
I would have stayed longer but when I went to sit on my fishing stool I missed and sat hard on the rocky bank . I hit hard enough for my Apple Watch started calling 911 .
Just a little sore , probably be more sore tomorrow.

Ouch. That doesn’t sound pleasant. Glad wasn’t any worse. Nice catches.

Glad you caught some on a hind end kind of day. Thanks for sharing

Handsome crappie!

Congrats on your catch. Sorry to hear about the accident. At our age it does hurt more than a few years back for sure.


Regards


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Well at least it it only basically hurt your pride and not your wallet or bones ….
Might ice the bruise down and sit on a soft pillow ….
The new KABOOM, done it more than once myself

Nice and you were dealing with some bad conditions. Bank fishing can be challenging, and I hear you on falls. As AH said, we don’t recover as fast as we once did.
Bob
PS Nice selection of TMs
B

Nice catching fish like that in challenging situations. If you fish enough you're bound to take a tumble or three. I know I'm not the man I used to be, getting clumsier and always dropping things or bumping into things. Always have new bruises and wonder when did I do that? We older folks need to slow it down more.