The first time fishing in a good while due to the Wuhan, pneumonia, and the walking pneumonia. It was with great expectations that Mickey and I around 8:00 launched at Lake X. I had looked at the forecast but had not put enough attention to the wind, which was blowing pretty good when we started. We fished around some of the places where we usually have luck but nobody home except one smart aleck that pulled my rod down and escaped. We let the boat drift against a treetop in 3 to4 feet of water and dipped and dunked a worm in between the limbs, ala Garhole tactics. It was not working to start but soon one cooperated and came up between the limbs without getting hung up. We tried that two more treetops with no takers. By 10 the wind was howling making fishing hard. Had it not been for the spot lock on the trolling motor fishing would have been impossible. We would pull up beside a top, hit the spot lock, and fish until we got hung up or until we were satisfied there were no hungry fish there. Then on to the next one. The fish were very reluctant to bite and it took many casts to the same spot to entice them to finally bite. When they did bite it was hard to detect because of the wind. To make any progress against the wind, the trolling motor had to be on at least 8 and on spot lock the motor was running almost continuously . I was convinced that the batteries ( two 12 volts hooked in parallel) would not make it through the day. They did, but it will take until tomorrow to charge them back up. We ended up with 7 fish and a 3.87 or .78 FOD, I can’t remember which. The 4 we kept, <16 inches are going to make great table fare.