fishing a c-rig at night

[zooker]

water temp at 3:30am was 87.5 degrees.. water was clear wind was blowing but good from the east at 25-30 gusting around 40+.. -yeah i know east wind- air temp was 78 it was "perfect".. i ran to a little known chunk of struture the wind was blowing straight into it..caught 1 bass on a lipless bait 4 more on a c-rig and 1 on a pnj all before day light. 2 were short. i took pictures of most of the fish just they did not turn out none to good.-kinda p.o. that the pictures of the big fish did not turn out well-he went 7.1 pounds - this is the only decent picture i have of any of the fish. please note that is the correct time as you can see why i have diffaculty getting decent pictures..



got to talking with a guy-local pro- about 5:30 ish.. i was on his spot-aww poor thing - i was ready to leave any way and ran to a quiet non wind blown point. where i caught 1 dink on a horny toad 1 even shorter on a pop-r. and 3 more on the c-rig..

i was using a 3/4 oz tungstung bullet no clicker just a cut glass bead, a ball bearing swivel, 36" leader lenth-12 pound envy green ande-. i was using before daylight a zoom 8" magII june bug worm on a 3/0 ewg gammy after daylight a watermelon seed 6" lizard with the same hook..
all of this was rigged on a 7 foot fenwick hmx heavy -ya think?- casting rod topped with a quatum mag gear reel loaded with 12 pound envy green ande mono..
both batteries were no there last legs fighting the consant wind.. i headed home about 10:30am

zooker