Today my friend and I drove two hours to an (electric only) lake, battled 20mph+ winds, and burned through several batteries, all because I wanted to catch a spotted bass. It took quite a while for us to figure it out, and even then we were far from having it down to a science, but I'm very happy with how things turned out. Every fish we caught today was on a wind blown, slow tapering bank in 5-10FOW on a half oz trap. The water had about 2' of visibility, far from your typical spotted bass water, but I sure did catch a couple of pretty ones! The biggest one was 3.54lbs, the second biggest was 2.71, and I also caught a 1.71. We caught 8 bass in total including several nice largemouth, and our best five went 14lbs. Can't complain with that on a lake I had never been too in far from ideal conditions!

 I gotta move south. This just ain't fair.

Congratulations. WTG on working the lake in those conditions.  Looks like you guys didn't loose your hats in that wind...

Nice catching!

The wind was your friend. 

I've noticed over the years if you're in a spot getting hammered by wind and you get a mud line going there will be big spots in it. They fight so hard too.

 

Good job out there!

Nice fish, great pic!

 

 @everythingthatswims  Living up to your name again I see

Nice job

Congrats

 Here's 2 different versions of the same pic

A-Jay

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

The wind was your friend. 

Yes and no. 1100 acres of water and we never got more than half a mile from the boat ramp in fear of not being able to get back. I would say 2 hours of our day was spent pulled up on the bank waiting on the wind to die down also.

ets back at it catching bigguns.  just as certain as death and taxes.

What lake are you fishing in Va? I live in northwestern va and would like to catch some spots since I've never caught 1. 

On ‎3‎/‎9‎/‎2017 at 11:48 PM, everythingthatswims said:

Today my friend and I drove two hours to an (electric only) lake, battled 20mph+ winds, and burned through several batteries, all because I wanted to catch a spotted bass. It took quite a while for us to figure it out, and even then we were far from having it down to a science, but I'm very happy with how things turned out. Every fish we caught today was on a wind blown, slow tapering bank in 5-10FOW on a half oz trap. The water had about 2' of visibility, far from your typical spotted bass water, but I sure did catch a couple of pretty ones! The biggest one was 3.54lbs, the second biggest was 2.71, and I also caught a 1.71. We caught 8 bass in total including several nice largemouth, and our best five went 14lbs. Can't complain with that on a lake I had never been too in far from ideal conditions!

nice, guys. looks like you had a blast . love catching spots , man do they fight. sometimes even harder after in the boat. they will repay the favor with a hook. ouch!