Made our first trip to Banks. I have wanted it for years. Took the wife's pontoon boat, and 6 of us headed over. Launched around 8, wind was horrendous. Tried to hide from it in a couple small coves where we did some jigging and caught a tone of tiny perch and smallies, but my uncle pulled up a nice smallie. The wind was blowing so hard at this point that the bowmount maxed outcouldnt hold us steady. We trolled flicker shad with the wind and pulled up more perch and smallies.
Found some flats and deployed bottom walkers, and we were able to scare up 5 eyes, 4 eaters and one dink, a ton of perch, and my wife caught her biggest small mouth bass @ 2#. We ended on that note after burning thru 3 dozen worms. Rated a 4 because it was our first trip there and we didn't get skunked, but the wind was a fight the whole day.