Been reading some Articles on here lately. Mainly on tactics, patterns and such.

Went out yestetday and barely did beat the skunk off. It was terribly windy and mostly sunny.

This is my first year NOT fishing from a kayak. Bass boat owner is what I am now. Im so use to fishing the slop and shallows cause deeper water wasn't really accessible when the wind howls.

How do you tackle summer days? Cover orientated lakes with little structure. Mainly a creek channel, man made riprap jetties, some have steep drops coming off those jetties, and steep banks. DNR have put brushpiles at the base of some drops. And also scattered throughout the lake.

Map example

* marks brush

Here is just one simple tip. Use your FF, locate 10-12 ft, find a weed line in that depth and fish the length of it with any and all baits until you find what they want that day.

Good luck.

Its still early summer, which means the fish are doing a couple dif things... I've found on the lakes Im fishing the last couple of weeks, the soft plastics have been out performing all else.

I throw a few dif styles and are as follows...

Shakyhead - with a greenpumpkin 7 inch trick worm - first drops of the shorline, around any structur, laysdowns, grasslines... main lake points in the 8-10foot range.

3/8th's Weighted wacky with a senko. color of bamacraw  on the windy days  as well as none weighted wacky same color senko on the calmer days.

and when it really gets tough... Ive been catching them on a sliderhead with a junebug finesse worm.

and of course my newsest fav, the black n blue bitsy bug with a KVD junior chunk.  Ive fished this all over the lakes... shallow.. deep... pionts.. an general my bigger

fish come off it. Slow hoppin to start... if nothing... slow it to a drag with no hops. stirs up the bottom alil more.

 

Hope that helps some with your next trip out.