Wind, Rain, Waves but a good running Kicker

Fished with Daryl and Mark. Temperature this morning was in the upper 60s and when we quit fishing it was still in the upper 60s. It would rain every once in a while which just made the trip that much worse. The wind was out of the southwest 20 to 26 knots and when we got to the fishing spot the waves were 3 to 5 feet. The water temp is 71 degrees. The wind report this morning was bad so the game plan was to perch fish in close to shore. We bought some shiners and headed out. Well, with the offshore wind the lake was not too bad so we made the decision to go walleye fishing out to 41 51 200 / 083 11 200, an 11 mile boat ride. We stopped a mile short of these way points and tried to set lines with the waves to our backs. After a hard time of setting lines and fighting the waves we decided to call it quits and go perch fishing. We caught 2 walleye using the jet 30s set at 65 feet back off the CJ Special spoon. The walleye are there but it was just too rough too fish in my boat. After a long ride back we started to perch fish in the swamp (41 48 170 / 083 24 630) where the waves were about a foot but the wind was still blowing pretty hard. We kept 22 perch and 2 walleye. I put a new carburetor on the kicker motor and that seemed to solve the engine problems, finally.