Post by Shadslinger on Apr 7, 2013 12:14:17 GMT -5
Well the weekend started off trying to get a starter put on my truck. They gave me the wrong one so I had to wait till saturday morning to get the right one. I swear I got some kinda voodoo curse on me. 3 weekends ago it was a water pump on the truck and battery and cables on the boat, last weekend the starter went out on the truck, got that fixed saturday and this morning blew a tire out on the way to the lake on the trailer.
Anyways we made it a evening trip yesterday getting bait easily around 5:30 and fishing planer boards with free-lined Gizzards up on the banks. It started off slow with a few hits and misses and one small fish on the only small gizzard I had. About a hour before dark it got right, the fish were blowing up and chasing and hammering the bait. I missed several hook ups and lost two in the chaos. We had one that nailed the outside board and I missed it, then I missed it on the inside board. I start reeling in to put new bait on and right at the boat it blows up out the water like jaws startling me and I missed it again.... ;D. Quick on the draw I drop that rod and grab another out the holder and hook a fresh gizzard and cast it out with my thumb on the spool slowly feeding it line, wont 30 seconds he took it and I nailed him that time. Was a good evening with one of Randi's friends catching her first striper.
This morning started off kinda hot right at light and by 7:30 I had 5 in the boat but then slowed down after that. I blew a tire on the way this morning and being 5 in the morning with a spare that was flat and only 2 miles to the ramp I kept on getting up.... ;D Sounded like a jacuzzi when I backed the trailer in the water. Ran to Rocky Mount and picked up a new wheel and tire when I was done fishing and loaded up the boat and headed to the house by 10.
Got my moneys worth on this tire
Finally got Miss Priss back in the boat and a fish in her hands
This was jaws
Anyways we made it a evening trip yesterday getting bait easily around 5:30 and fishing planer boards with free-lined Gizzards up on the banks. It started off slow with a few hits and misses and one small fish on the only small gizzard I had. About a hour before dark it got right, the fish were blowing up and chasing and hammering the bait. I missed several hook ups and lost two in the chaos. We had one that nailed the outside board and I missed it, then I missed it on the inside board. I start reeling in to put new bait on and right at the boat it blows up out the water like jaws startling me and I missed it again.... ;D. Quick on the draw I drop that rod and grab another out the holder and hook a fresh gizzard and cast it out with my thumb on the spool slowly feeding it line, wont 30 seconds he took it and I nailed him that time. Was a good evening with one of Randi's friends catching her first striper.
This morning started off kinda hot right at light and by 7:30 I had 5 in the boat but then slowed down after that. I blew a tire on the way this morning and being 5 in the morning with a spare that was flat and only 2 miles to the ramp I kept on getting up.... ;D Sounded like a jacuzzi when I backed the trailer in the water. Ran to Rocky Mount and picked up a new wheel and tire when I was done fishing and loaded up the boat and headed to the house by 10.
Got my moneys worth on this tire
Finally got Miss Priss back in the boat and a fish in her hands
This was jaws
