This morning, Wednesday, March 27, I fished with returning guest, James Copeland, accompanied by first time guests, Ben and Evan Hayes.

PHOTO CAPTION:  Ben Hayes took our largest fish this morning, just a few minutes after the first winds of the morning began to blow.  This fish inhaled his 3/4 oz. white Bladed Hazy Eye Slab.

For the second consecutive morning, the air temperature at sunrise was 45° and the winds were calm. The winds stayed calm until around 10 AM. There was a low deck of gray clouds during this time.

I moved the trip start time back to 8 AM to eliminate waiting through some of the cold, calm conditions, but we still had to bide our time until the wind kicked in.

Prior to 10:10 AM, my crew of three had landed only seven fish, but ended up with a total of 76 fish in five hours’ time — a testament to just how keyed these fish are to wind.

During the slow two hours, fish were still able to be found, but simply would hardly budge for any presentation, vertical or horizontal.  Those fish we did catch fell for the white, 3/4-ounce Bladed Hazy Eye Slab.

Once the wind began to blow, the fishing picked up very rapidly with horizontal presentations outproducing vertical presentations from that point on.

The vast majority of our fish today were taken on MAL Original lures with both white tails and with chartreuse tails. James, Ben, and Evan used the sawtooth method with a total of seven turns of the reels handle per iteration. I had the metronome set to an 80 BPM setting in order to keep them from reeling too fast or too slow.

Our 76 fish consisted of exactly 74 white bass, 1 hybrid striped bass, and 1 freshwater drum.

Fish are definitely re-populating on topographic features and are using the 29-34 foot depth range quite consistently.