Felt Like the Deadliest Catch

Fished with Captain Daryl, the last trip of the year on the boats. Temperature this morning was in the lower 40s and when we quit fishing it was in the middle 50s. The wind was out of the north at 18 to 22 knots with waves 2 to 3 feet with the occasional 4 footer. I had to wear my raincoat because when the waves came over the stearn we would get at least 10 gallons of water in the boat with each large wave - it actually looked and felt like the deadliest catch! I was sopping wet for most of the trip and it took all I had to stand up. Started fishing on the south side of the dumping grounds and we only caught 3 fish. Made some moves in this area and it did not help our fishing. Moved to the humps and we picked up one more fish. Made the move out to the Toledo Light House (further out into the lake) and we tried 3 spots out there where we only caught a couple of fish. The weather was not getting any better so we moved back into shallower water. Caught a few keeper perch and then we called it a day. Boy was I happy, after pulling the anchor in rough water about 9 times I was getting beat up and had enough. Kept 13 perch and that was not how we wanted to finish the year. Could have been the nasty weather or all the hard work we had trying to catch them, but we had the perch for dinner tonight and it was some of the best fish we had all year. It was a very tough finish to a pretty good year of fishing. Tomorrow we put the boats to rest for the winter. I have some major work to do on the boat but that will be another story. I plan on fishing off the docks until the water freezes over.