Sat Eve/NIght Report

Saltwater Striper Fishing
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Thumb’s fine. Thanks

Got the lighting problem all straightened out. I use a 12v CFL bulb above my console, which normally lights up the whole boat. The bulb was coming on that night, but not lighting up all the way. Turned out to be corrosion in the bulb socket keeping it from making good contact.

Gonna head back out tonight.

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki

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Originally posted by striperskiff
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Originally posted by Steverino

Good report Tim, sorry about the thumb.

I found out on Sunday that a rescue call went out Saturday night about 10:30 somewhere around Spence. Anyone know what happened? I didn’t see anything in the news. We saw a colored light down that way, but it didn’t look like the strobe from a LEO.

Not sure what was going on, but if I remember right I believe it was solid red lights that we were seeing… defiantely not the flashing blue lights you normally see on the weekends. I asked a guy at work who lives at the condos about it, thinking something happened there, but he was out of town this weekend.

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki

Someone at work just mentioned this. That’s the first I’ve seen about it.

http://www.thestate.com/2013/04/15/2725545/5-injured-in-collision-of-two.html

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki

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He’s the manager of Yacht Cove…The one that was with his grandkids and got hit that is. I have known David a few years. Sad stuff.

Wellcraft V20, 175 Yamaha
Formula 25 SC Express, Mercruiser 260

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I fish almost exclusively at night and you really have to be careful. Several times I have run up on people on very dark nights with no lights whatsoever. I’ve seen some large boats going 40+ miles per hour when you can’t see more than 20 yards. When these two mix it is almost always tragic. If you fish at night keep your speed down and keep a bright flashlight/lantern in case your battery dies and you lose lights. That happened to me in a friends boat and we almost got hit. Luckily Murraymaker came to the rescue and let us use his backup battery to get back.

Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude

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Another problem on Murray - especially down lake - is that standard navigation lights are hard to distinguish from all of the shoreline lights (homes, streetlights, etc). They just blend in especially if the craft is stationary with only a regulation white anchor light.