Was doing a little pre-fishing if you will yesterday and went to Paris Landing to put in, I was going to try to be brave and make the trek to New Johnsonville by water, as i was at the gas station by Paris Landing state park the lady said be careful there's 30 mph winds out of the west, I looked outside and thought "it's barely blowing", HA! we put in and took off went under the bridge to head south and as my boat was completely out of the water for the second or was it the third time, in a row I thought "What the heck",

As I settled the boat back down and thought of the movie "The Perfect Storm" as I was climbing the next wave losing all site of land and getting sprayed in the face and my forehead freezing and going numb, I looked at my partner and said "this ain't going to happen today! i hung a right and headed toward big sandy. The funny thing is I wasn't a hundred yards from the bridge yet it felt like 3 miles. Needles to say The entrance to Big Sandy has a wide open stretch of water that opens up to the right - you guessed it to the west, yes the west where this 30 mph winds where "supposed" to be blowing from - and they were.

After what felt like 2 hours getting to my spot (which was actually less than 10 minutes) we fished a lead in bank and caught a mess of fish, we caught them on everything we threw for a 50 yard stretch, we were facing into the wind with 2 to 3 ft rollers bouncing us violently around - but we were catching fish!!!!! That was the first time I had stuck it out in the wind and waves and it paid off, we won our "dash for cash" buddy tournament, with 14 lbs and had the only limit, I fish with a real old club - Murray Bass Club and we have a blast the weigh in's are what makes it you actually never know who has the fish to win and it changes from tourney to tourney - but you better catch some or you'll be looking up all the time.

Productive lures: Jewel finesse 3/4 oz watermelon candy jigs with paca craw trailers, lipless baits in Black/Chrome and Sexy Shad, 3/8 oz spinners in blue glimmer, and My FAVORITE - 3/16th oz shakey head with watermelon candy trick worm.

(Fishing the 3/16th oz was very - VERY tough but the wind moved the bait yet it was lust heavy enough to keep contact) but my biggest tool was my Carrot Stick with the InvizX line on the symetre reel!!! I still felt everything