For years and years, anglers have been caught off guard by windy conditions while out on the water. Whether it’s simply a 5 mph increase over what you expected, windy conditions will change the way bass and other species eat and stage on any given body of water.
Long before the days of down imaging sonar and mapping chips, anglers relied on a variety of tools to find depth change and contour lines. Whether it was using visual topographical cues or simply counting down a weight to the bottom, these old school tricks and tactics could only get them so far.
It wasn’t that long ago that I had no idea what ANGLR was about, or even that it was an electronic fishing journal. I saw buttons on people’s hats or lanyards with the name, but felt it was either anglers with a secret the rest of us were not a part of, or some branded gear I had never seen.