Wind always a factor in the Great Lakes

There's never been a tournament in the Great Lakes where wind wasn't a factor.

 

It's will certainly play that way here. But how won't be the easiest thing to pinpoint.

 

Yesterday the wind howled out of the south, with a little east worked in. It made it really rough and probably kept some of these guys either off some spots. If it didn't it certainly hurt their ability to work those areas affectively.

 

Today the wind is different. It's out of the west and feels like it's getting stronger. While the lake isn't as rough it's not smooth as glass either. There's still a chop but not so much you can't get out and fish.

 

But for most of the last week or more the winds on this lake have been mostly out of the south.

 

Smallmouth and their wolf pack nature will certainly reposition in a wind like this. Any key places these guys might have found in practice might not be so key today.

 

They may have to find them all over again. We are watching Kriet in the Chambers Island area. He didn't fish here yesterday likely because of the wind. He's here today because he believes he can catch the bigger fish needed to move him up. But he's not getting those bites he had in practice. And he's actively looking, sometimes jumping down and idling a few 100 yards while working the series of humps, points and drops in the area.

 

At this point and with what appears to be a slowing of the catch rate in BassTrakk it appears a lot of guys are doing the same thing – searching: All of them looking for where the wind positioned these fish today.