Carl Guffey, CFF 9, few, 8/5/2011, Nickajackangler

[Carl Guffey]

<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">What a day. I left the house around 3 o'clock and headed down to Chattanooga. I made it to exit 81 and turned south, starting my drive down. One hour later I had gone 5 miles, seems that TDOT was doing some bridge work and had traffic down to one lane on the north and south bound lanes. I changed over to hwy 11 and again traffic was bumper to bumper and moving at a snails pace, but at least it was moving. Finally made it to Chattanooga, picked up Nickajackangler, ran by Wendy's for a quick grilled chicken, ran to Wolftever, dropped the boat in,started boat on first crank, ran hard to CFP. We made the cut off and thought we were ready to go catch some fish.</font></p>

<font face="Georgia" size="2">Blast off started and as we neared our designated release I tried to get the boat started. It wouldn't. Finally fired and our number was announced. I idled through the no wake zone and kicked it. The boat feel on it's face and died. Spent the next thirty or so minutes idling trying to get the boat up on plane . The motor finally built up enough rpm and we headed out to the river channel. Ran to our first spot, Nickajack caught a dink on a buzzbait and there were no more. Started to move to our second spot, again boat would idle but would not build rpm and go to plane. We wound up on idle to our next spot. We started fishingthe ledge and Nickajack misses a good fish on a blade. The fish hit the bait and came about half way back to the boat then justopened it's mouth and swam away.We fished another mile or so anddid not get bit until we reached the end of thatdrop off. Nickajack caught the first keeper on a ten inch worm and that was it for another hour.</font></p>

<font face="Georgia" size="2">We started idling toward CFP thinking it was going to be a long way back at slow speed. I finally managed to get the boat up and on plane and we ran back toward Dallas Bay. We made one more stop near the weigh-in ramp and Nickajack caught one more keeper on a big worm.</font></p>

<font face="Georgia" size="2">Nickajack caught three fish, (two small keepers) I broke a livewell switch, boat motor, and fell hard releasing our two fish after weigh in(large bruise on right upper thigh, cut on knee), caught no fish,but it was a good night with some good friends.</font></p>

 

[dd22fish]

THOSE are the kind on nights it pays to stay home in the BED. DD22FISH

 

[Hook1]

I'm sittin here reading all these reports and a question comes to mind. Why is it that a night tx usually brings the worst of peoples luck out? Ive read several posts about stuff breaking and fuses blowing and motors dying. Good grief! You guys had a time. I just fished for fun which turned into a bitter sweet trip

 

[Pointer 78]

I thought we had a bad night. I hope it's nothing serious brother. I'm tickled that you showed up though. It was good seeing you again.

 

[Strato-G]

emoBang bad nite for problems , hope none are serious, good to c u ................ emoGeezer emoUSA

 

[Nickajack Angler]

Hey, we fished good water. Fish weren't biting in those areas. If the boat had run well, there were only two other spots we probably would have hit. But it was a good time as always fishing with Carl.
Not a big fan of the night tourneys, but probably because I've only had one night of success after dark for bass. Great to see you guys... looking forward to the next one. Thanks for coming down and fishing with me Carl. Hate you had boat "issues".