MBC Seniors - April 26th - Roosevelt Lake

With plunging temperatures and severe winds and rains in the forecast, my partner and I knew this could turn into a brutal day on the water. The temps went from 90's to a high of 60 and 35+mph winds with gusts over 50. We decided to make a short run to a spot we normally fish before the wind and weather really kicked in.
Within a few casts we had a small keeper on a squarebill, I decided to throw an A-rig since there were shad in the area and some wind while my partner continued to throw the squarebill. Within the next 30 minutes we has a limit and were culling nearly every other cast. By 6:30 we had caught over 20 keepers and were working our total weight up. Once the bite slowed on the A-rig we decided to run down lake and try to beat the wind and waves to get a kicker fish from Mystery Island. That by far was our worst mistake of the day. We fished for a few hours with only small fish that wouldn't help our total. We saw the storm rolling in and when it hit, the rain and wind were intense. I had my trolling motor on 7 and we weren't gaining any ground in the back of a protected cove. We motored out when the wind broke a little and went around a deep ledge, it panned out for a fish or two but nothing that would help. By this time I noticed it was going to be a nightmare going back towards the ramp again. We were in the back of a wind protected cove with 4ft waves capping outside of it and those were the small ones. We didn't think the win was going to let up at all and was supposed to get worse so we tightened everything down for the run back across. We made it out about a mile before we hit the 5&6ft waves with a few over 7ft mixed in. For the first time since I have owned my boat I took a wave over the front, went up a 5 and I hit the gas trying to get the nose up and buried it instead in the middle of a 7+. That was the only wave we took but it was enough to wake me up to slow down and take my time through the bigger waves. Once we got past the main basin the waves got back to 3-5 footers and was smoother driving back.
We finally made it back to where we started and my partner was soaked, and thankfully I had my 100MPH gear and was basically dry except for where some water had gone through the opening of the face guard. It was in 50's and the wind was blowing but sun was trying to shine so we set the clothes out to dry while we fished on. I'm glad I always bring extra clothes just in case, it was nice to be completely dry with the cold weather. For the next hour we caught fish and managed to cull twice getting our total to 10.42 with our biggest of the day being 2.62lbs.
It wasn't what we wanted but we did have a great day of fishing on the water despite the weather and finished in 6th place, culling error cost us 5th. We caught the majority of our fish on A-rigs with the rest coming on squarebills and dropshots. With this tournament in the books we qualified for the MBC Seniors Championship, 2 days at Apache Lake.