AFTER DECIDING ABOUT 9:00AM YESTERDAY TO GO NITE FISHING LAST NITE WITH A BUDDY.....BEING THE GREAT PROCRASTINATOR I AM... I START GETTING STUFF TOGETHER ABOUT 5 PM ...HEY THAT`S EARLY ..WE AREN`T GOIN` TO MEET TILL 11:00 PM...SO ABOUT 5:20 WHEN I CAN`T GET THE BLACK LITES TO WORK ... 1 JUST BARELY GLOWS AND AFTER DISSECTING THE OTHER I DECIDE TO CHECK THE BATTERY....DEADER` THAN A DOORNAIL...SO I WHUP OUT THE CHARGER AND START HITTIN` IT WITH 10 AMPS...DOUBTING THAT 5 HOURS WOULD BE ENOUGH.. (I WAS GOIN` TO RUN UP THE LAKE A WAYS TO CHARGE THE BATTS A LITTLE MORE BUT WAS DODGING A LOT OF TRASH AND DECIDED NOT TO.).. I REMEMBERED AT THE LAST TOURNEY (2 WEEKS AGO) THAT MY OL X-70 WOULDN`T TURN OFF AS I WAS GETTING READY TO LOAD THE BOAT...MADE A MENTAL NOTE TO UNPLUG THE POWER CORD WHEN WE GOT ON DRY LAND...THIS HAS HAPPENED ONCE BEFORE.......WELL MENTAL NOTE CAME BACK UP ABOUT 5:20 PM YESTERDAY
AFTER GETTING ROOTED OUT OF FIRST STOPPING PLACE BY $#%&* FISHERMAN (ANOTHER STORY ON ANOTHER THREAD) WE WENT DOWN THE BANK A 1/2 MILE OR SO & STARTED WORKING OUR WAY BACK TO WHERE WE WANTED TO START..STARTED CATCHING SEVERAL SMALLFISH ON T-RIG ,SHAKY HEADS AND JIGS....MOSTLY IN BLACK AND BLUE AND GREEN PUNKINS NETBAITS PACA CRAW...PROBABLY CAUGHT 10 MOSTLY IN 8-10 FT DEEP NEXT TO MAIN CHANNEL DROPS....FINALLY GOT TO OUR POINT WE WANTED TO START ON AND CAUGHT SEVERAL SMALL ONES ON THE SHALLOW SIDE OF THE 60 FOOT DEEP POINT...THEN I CAUGHT A 20 INCH 3.5 LB SMALLIE...AND MY PARTNER HAD ONE ON JUST A FEW MINUTES LATER THAT REALLY DOUBLED UP HIS ROD FOR A FEW FEET BEFORE COMING UNBUTTONED...THIS WAS ABOUT 3:00 AM...WE KINDA EXPECTED TO GET ON THESE FISH THERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE STEADILY RUN A LITTLE WATER ALL WEEKEND...14,500 ...WHICH IS NOT A LOT LOT BUT ENOUGH TO PUT THE FISH WHERE WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE AND THEY WERE THERE...... BUT ABOUT THAT TIME WE NOTICED THE DEPTH FINDERS HAD GONE OFF AND THE LIGHTS WERE GETTING KINDA DIM ..SO WE CHECKED THE BIG MOTOR AND IT WOULDN`T CRANK SO WE DECIDED WE BETTER HEAD IN BEFORE THE RUNNING LIGHTS WENT OUT COMPLETLY...THANK GOODNESS FOR THE GOOD INTERSTATE BATTERIES ON THE TROLLING MOTOR...TOOK ABOUT 45 MINUTES ON 24V HI TO GET BACK TO THE RAMP AND THEY NEVER EVEN SLOWED UP..
ALL THINGS ASIDE NOT A BAD NITE ....GOT SOME STINKY ON OUR HANDS AND WAS BASICALLY NO BOAT TRAFFIC AFTER MIDNITE..EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF BASS BOATS....NEXT WEEKEND SHOULD BE A KILLER !!
AFTER GETTING ROOTED OUT OF FIRST STOPPING PLACE BY $#%&* FISHERMAN (ANOTHER STORY ON ANOTHER THREAD) WE WENT DOWN THE BANK A 1/2 MILE OR SO & STARTED WORKING OUR WAY BACK TO WHERE WE WANTED TO START..STARTED CATCHING SEVERAL SMALLFISH ON T-RIG ,SHAKY HEADS AND JIGS....MOSTLY IN BLACK AND BLUE AND GREEN PUNKINS NETBAITS PACA CRAW...PROBABLY CAUGHT 10 MOSTLY IN 8-10 FT DEEP NEXT TO MAIN CHANNEL DROPS....FINALLY GOT TO OUR POINT WE WANTED TO START ON AND CAUGHT SEVERAL SMALL ONES ON THE SHALLOW SIDE OF THE 60 FOOT DEEP POINT...THEN I CAUGHT A 20 INCH 3.5 LB SMALLIE...AND MY PARTNER HAD ONE ON JUST A FEW MINUTES LATER THAT REALLY DOUBLED UP HIS ROD FOR A FEW FEET BEFORE COMING UNBUTTONED...THIS WAS ABOUT 3:00 AM...WE KINDA EXPECTED TO GET ON THESE FISH THERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE STEADILY RUN A LITTLE WATER ALL WEEKEND...14,500 ...WHICH IS NOT A LOT LOT BUT ENOUGH TO PUT THE FISH WHERE WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE AND THEY WERE THERE...... BUT ABOUT THAT TIME WE NOTICED THE DEPTH FINDERS HAD GONE OFF AND THE LIGHTS WERE GETTING KINDA DIM ..SO WE CHECKED THE BIG MOTOR AND IT WOULDN`T CRANK SO WE DECIDED WE BETTER HEAD IN BEFORE THE RUNNING LIGHTS WENT OUT COMPLETLY...THANK GOODNESS FOR THE GOOD INTERSTATE BATTERIES ON THE TROLLING MOTOR...TOOK ABOUT 45 MINUTES ON 24V HI TO GET BACK TO THE RAMP AND THEY NEVER EVEN SLOWED UP..
ALL THINGS ASIDE NOT A BAD NITE ....GOT SOME STINKY ON OUR HANDS AND WAS BASICALLY NO BOAT TRAFFIC AFTER MIDNITE..EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF BASS BOATS....NEXT WEEKEND SHOULD BE A KILLER !!
