oh oh oh me too, mee too, ooooooooh oh me too!!! tell me tell me.. lmao J /k but really that is a good question.

I have always been told to fish the windy blown sides.

the perfect scenario for shallow water fishing is where the river flows into the lake from the northern end of the lake which most lakes are like that to some extent. when the wind is out of the south blowing towards the upper end of the lake you'll have shallow flats up towards the upper end of the lake if it's an older lake around farming, dirt road run-offs and what not the lake will get silted in towards the upper end so if you've got a lake like that where the lake's main river system flows into it from the northern end or northwest or northeast end these would be the ideal areas to look for shallow water blues. bluecat are more of an open water fish than the other two and will roam across those flats in groups of 10 to 50 or more fish and a lot of times the gulls will tell you where they are because the gulls will be diving on them ... I've noticed that gulls see bluecats working an area and they'll go down and nip at them as I've witnessed this up close ... the bluecat will be up in 2 to 4 ft of water on those northern flats and they'll be coming up near the surface and those gulls will dive down and try to bite them ... now this seems odd but that's actually what they were doing and they weren't coming up with anything but they just kept after them and anywhere those birds were diving I was catching fish and there weren't any shad or anything the birds were coming up with and the birds also gang up on where I throw my bluecat carcasses out after I get done cleaning the fish. but when they're diving down in areas where there's no shad I used to wonder what they were doing because I'd throw my net out and never caught any shad but then some days later I seen what they were doing and it was about a 3 to 4 lb bluecat that was near the surface and one of those gulls came down and tried to bite it ... the blues were up in there feeding on debris that had been washed into the lake .. there was about a 5 inch layer of junk on the bottom on top of the silt mud that they were sifting through and getting worms and stuff out of but no shad up there. but this is just an example of how to locate the fish up in those shallows .. if you see a hand full of those western gulls working around 2 to 4 ft of water they're probably seeing bluecat up there and thinking they can get a bite off one when they're seeing them from the air. I went out to do my break-in on my new motor a couple of days ago and seen about 8 to 10 gulls working over 3 to 4 ft of water and I'd already netted some shad for the next day as I had a trip scheduled but that ended up falling through cause the weather forecast deteriorated. but anyhow I seen gulls working up there so I put the break-in on hold and went up there and caught about 20 fish in about an hour and a half ... 6 or 7 of them were 10+ which I threw back and kept 12 of them between 3 and 7 lbs and then went and finished up my first hour of break-in on my new 115 horse optimax. but anyhow that's just an example of where to look for shallow water blues in scenarios where you've got the main tributary on the northern end of the lake. when there's a good south wind a lot of times you can just pick a spot out there and throw out lines in every direction and pick up several fish without knowing how to locate them. broadcast your poles in all different directions like that as far out from the boat as you can and cover as much water as you can .. sometimes you'll get bit on just a couple rods in one direction and that'll give you an idea of which way to move ... when the bite slows to no bite in about 15 mintues then pack up and move in the direction that you'd caught a few fish .. say if you're casting out 50 yds and you caught a few fish west of where you are then move 100 yds to the west and rebroadcast your rods and you might end up in the big middle of them.