The wind hasn't slowed the bite down....... yet.

The wind was bit of a problem today and probably will be for the next few days, but it hasn't slowed the catching down thus far.The front due in Thursday will push even more shrimp into the lake and that is always a good thing.

The slot reds were eating Hoginars better than anything else for us!

I fished with James Duke and his son, Tom, yesterday and we had a great catching day.  The lake was dead calm most of the day and we were able to ignore the gulls and follow the shrimp getting blasted off the surface by some very nice trout and slot reds.  We caught all of our trout on tails and all of our reds on Hoginars, but we did lose a few reds that ate tails.

One of several nice trout that James caught fishing longer paddle tails under the gulls.

We are consistently catching not only more reds, but larger trout as well fishing the longer paddle tail plastics like the Assassin DieDapper and TTF"s Big Minnow.  We are throwing the rat tail plastics as well, but while they catch the heck out of fish, they have not fooled as many big trout.  When I say big, It's not like we are catching 7 or 8 pound trout, but 3 to 5 pound trout under the gulls is big for me.

I have also been throwing the longer plastics under the Kwik Cork, both rat tails and paddle tails, and while the bite is a little slower, the average size of the fish has been better.  The one exception has been when fishing the TTF Shiney Hiney with a shrimp tail under the cork.  Pumpkinseed and red shad-white tail plastics have also worked much better in the dirtier water stirred up by the wind.