Mickey and I went to Log Loader Chute this afternoon with plans to start fishing around 3:00. I didn’t look at my watch when we started but we were close. We caught several right off the bat that were small but the wind was blowing a gale out of the North making it difficult to hold position on the spot. At the higher speeds my trolling motor is hard to steer because of the torque and that was a real problem. Using two feet to steer helped but was not the real solution. The first spot gave out but there were others that looked just like it. Unfortunately the fish were not in them. The stripes were a real pain and difficult to get off of the DT-6 without getting stuck with a hook or one of those sharp gill plates. The day was not without mishap. First a big eyed carp of substantial size bit my DT-6, had the bait in its mouth, and was taking drag, going under the boat, and just generally clowning. I was afraid the little pretty blue back DT-6 was going to be lost. Mickey took my boat hook when the fish came close and hooked it in one of the hooks on the bait and pulled the fish up to the side of the boat where I took my pliers and unhooked the fish. Next we saw some fish schooling in shallow water and went over to investigate. They were mostly stripes but in the process of finding out what they were the level wind pawl in one of my reels shot out. Second one lately. Then a jumping carp launched over the side of the boat right into a pile of Mickey’s rods. Rods went everywhere and it was amazing none were knocked into the water or none were broken. Next a gar, one of many, cut off an XD5 of mine that I had just put some over sized hooks on and that had caught a few fish. In the almost a mishap category, I had caught a stripe and had unhooked it and thrown it back and dropped my Yozuri into the water. The rod started jumping and I pounced on it because another stripe was trying to make off with the whole thing. After seeing fish deeper on the depth finder we switched to an XD5 and started to catch a few more. We patrolled the same section of bank until we could catch no more. We ended up with 30 bass and a 3-6 FOD. The FOD had a 4 1/2 pound head and a sunken belly. Also we caught innumerable stripes, two catfish, a goo, and a bunch of gar that we usually left with a headache.