WaterChap
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Here’s a report on what NOT to do, because it didn’t work at all on Tuesday. I put in with my 12 year old son at about 8:30am at CFP. I got some minnows to increase his chances of catching one. Had to let my motor down with the release screw (more on that later). We started by going back in a Dallas Bay cove.
I tried working a topwater and a spinnerbait with no luck. Saw quite a few gar and some white bass hitting the surface. Moved to a grassy point.
Through a stick bait into the edge of the grass as well as a spinnerbait. Threw into the grass with a soft lizard. Absolutely no action at all.
Tried a nearby channel drop off with fish on the screen. Deep diving spinnerbait. No luck.
Tried a bluff wall and rocky point with a stickbait and spinnerbait. Zero. An old timer told me back at the ramp that the bluff wall was his magic spot and he got zero there that day too.
Fished a channel drop off up the main lake with a deep diving spinner bait. Saw fish on my unit, but I haven’t been able to connect with deep water fish. They were at about 27’.
Reading other reports, I obviously should’ve been frogging it. I was thinking it was still too warm, but obviously not.
Took my boat by Sportsman Marine to have the tilt looked at. He is backed up two months but said he’d take a quick look. I’m pretty sure he regretted that. Fixed my tilt in nothing flat. Silvertalon was absolutely right about the relays. I just couldn’t find them, but they were in plain sight. He also looked at my tanks leaking at the sending units. When a technician who’s been around as long as Robert say’s, I’ve never seen that before, you know you’re in for it. A couple of hours later, after grinding and cleaning and shaving down rubber washers, I THINK I might have non-leaking tanks. Maybe. I left with a kit to change my lower unit oil. He also told me that I should grease my trailer jack before it stripped out.
We got back to drop off the boat. I got out the grease to lube the jack, but I couldn’t deploy it. It was stripped out. Took off the trailer with a floor jack stacked on a pile of lumber and landscaping pads. I know what my project is this weekend. I think I’ve worked more on the trailer than the boat.
I tried working a topwater and a spinnerbait with no luck. Saw quite a few gar and some white bass hitting the surface. Moved to a grassy point.
Through a stick bait into the edge of the grass as well as a spinnerbait. Threw into the grass with a soft lizard. Absolutely no action at all.
Tried a nearby channel drop off with fish on the screen. Deep diving spinnerbait. No luck.
Tried a bluff wall and rocky point with a stickbait and spinnerbait. Zero. An old timer told me back at the ramp that the bluff wall was his magic spot and he got zero there that day too.
Fished a channel drop off up the main lake with a deep diving spinner bait. Saw fish on my unit, but I haven’t been able to connect with deep water fish. They were at about 27’.
Reading other reports, I obviously should’ve been frogging it. I was thinking it was still too warm, but obviously not.
Took my boat by Sportsman Marine to have the tilt looked at. He is backed up two months but said he’d take a quick look. I’m pretty sure he regretted that. Fixed my tilt in nothing flat. Silvertalon was absolutely right about the relays. I just couldn’t find them, but they were in plain sight. He also looked at my tanks leaking at the sending units. When a technician who’s been around as long as Robert say’s, I’ve never seen that before, you know you’re in for it. A couple of hours later, after grinding and cleaning and shaving down rubber washers, I THINK I might have non-leaking tanks. Maybe. I left with a kit to change my lower unit oil. He also told me that I should grease my trailer jack before it stripped out.
We got back to drop off the boat. I got out the grease to lube the jack, but I couldn’t deploy it. It was stripped out. Took off the trailer with a floor jack stacked on a pile of lumber and landscaping pads. I know what my project is this weekend. I think I’ve worked more on the trailer than the boat.
