Welp today was a good day, best I have had in a long time. Really appreciate folks suggesting things to do etc..I still have so much to learn and being older hope that I can learn quicker than my past lol. Was really windy today, gusts to 20mph but I knew it was coming from the south with would be coming up the main lake but there would be plenty of branches that I could fish and be out of the wind, and let me tell ya it was windy. Front coming through tonight so not sure if that was the deal or I actually figured at least for today what they were wanting. I had been fishing for a couple of hours and had some new stuff tied on, micro chatterbait and some of the other stuff that I had been throwing, spinnerbait, jig and bunch of other stuff. Wasn't sure what skirt to go with on the micro chatterbait, changed the white out to a green pumpkin and went to a couple of shallow flats and nothing...decided to change my jig from a black/blue skirt and blue craw trailer to a more bluegill skirt, still dark has a little blue and green and change my trailer out for a green pumpkin craw. Was fishing an different area around a lift and reeling my lure back to the boat and had one swim up and almost hit it at the boat. That got me thinking, all my skirts on my spinnerbaits, and chatter baits where white, not bright white but that light white with some chartreuse in them so I switched out my skirt on my spinnerbait (one willow, one colorado) to the same one that I had on my jig and, trimmed it a little and put on a watermelon red fat albert grub. Well I started getting some hits, still pretty slow but was getting some dinks here and there and that was better than nada.
Fished up one of the arms and it was getting late, had about couple of hours and wanted to fish a pocket off the main lake. Oh boy the wind was crazy gusting up the lake, pretty small pocket and the wind and water was pushing into it pretty good, there was a couple spots that I wanted to fish, one was towards the back on the side of the lift that was acting like a funnel with the wind and water, and what do you know nice 3lb fish. Really glad I had spot lock since the wind was really pushing me around. From there I bounced to the other side that had and arm that would be out of the wind and decided to fish that. Again up shallow to the side of a lift, 5lb fish (ok it was 4.93 but I'm rounding up, lol). I fished pretty much that arm and caught nice keeper after keeper. Probably caught 5-6 keepers and bunch of dinks. Not sure if it was the skirt making the difference or maybe the front coming through but I've not had that good of an outing in a long time, will keep trying the darker skirts for sure now, haven't tried it on a spinnerbait.
TLDR; really had a nice day on the water, best day in quite some time even with the wind. Still have so much to learn about where and when and on what but will keep plugging along and try to keep learning. Again appreciate all the suggestions and advice. My plan is to create a thread in the Fishing reports section and just record my outings on these lakes and maybe over time continue to figure things out. I need to write things down anyways so I can see what the trends year over year so I figure I will just create a thread and record my outings, good and bad, lol.