Its time Dan! You can get to em in your yak right now. I will haul you out there and keep an eye on ya amigo! I’ve caught some toads up shallow in the winter on other guys boats Dan but that’s not something I have much experience with. I grew up on the south end of the lake so I’ve grown accustomed to looking deep and mid-depth before I ever go shallow. Blues can be anywhere on any given day though. Some guys fish in 1-10 ft and some guys fish out deep both with matching stringers. I can guarantee you all the blues in the lake aren’t on the same pattern each day. If it’s been cold and we get a warm up then some of my fishing buddies will go shallow on that day and catch some big fish and the same day I will have a matching stringer in 30-40 ft. I’m no guru and I’m still learning as I go but one thing that 3 different top end guides have told when I asked them about the same thing. They all 3 said that if your getting your tail kicked and you’re looking for that Hail Mary, find a point or pocket that the wind has been blowing on all day and anchor shallow. I still prefer to pull boards over structure cuz it’s produced plenty of hail Mary’s for us. There are a million ways to skin a cat.

That was a great report and congrats on getting your son on his birthday fish Buddy got Mama on her birthday fish Wednesday on Tawakoni... only a 25 but she was happy LOL Gato we lost several as well also there were a lot of short Strikers

El Gato you have finally inspired me with the planer boards! I started seeing more and more that this was an application I needed. I know there are a ton of videos out there but today I'm doing my own planer board making video and hopefully it will come out somewhat decent LOL