It was very windy here today also and they did bite very softly. We were using crawlers and grubs. The pond is 17 ft at the deepest part by the dam and thats where we fished. The two that we did catch were right off the dam in 9 ft of water. So should we have used a bigger piece of the crawler than we do in the summer? I really wanted to use minnows but the bait shop was sold out.