i have a 20' glass boat and still there are times i cant fish the open water,,BTW forgot to mention if you put in at macfarland and the wind is up, go up the barge canal and fish around the lock, i have always been able to pick up a fish or two up thru therefish the right hand wall of the lock, and the rocks out in front, it easy and safe to run up thru there, also i'm gonna get my pickwick map out this week and we'll find you some places to catch some fish, in the meantime remeber they call it fishing and not catching, but we'll see if we can't turn that around

one last thing, you need to be checking with some folks about fishing in late sept/oct with yellow tails, you'll need acast net and a round tank to keep them alive, for whatever reason they don't do well in square tanks or a livewell[&:], but that and the top water bite in the fall are awesome, more later