Well a ton of stuff went wrong on Saturday but still managed some fish. First off, I wanted to try some of the ring free as suggested by Charleston Marine, so I filled one tank with the stuff, but the tank must have a blockage and didn’t work, so I abandoned that tank and went with the other. Then I get this weird intermittent loss of power after changing tanks, then the power comes back and we get to the fishing spot in Clouter. We picked up one trout on the TT. Decided to troll in Beresford/Nowell and now the motor works fine except that it doesn’t start when I want it to. I trouble shoot and narrow it down to the neutral start switch or solenoid. At this point we are way up the creek, literally. Get the motor started and tell my buddy that we are trolling back out the creek and heading home. Picked up another 11 trout. During this time both of our rods get funky on us and we get some ridiculous backlashes. I had all three screws on the side of my Penn back out at once, reel starts spinning backwards while I’m driving the boat, with a trout on. Finally make it back to the landing and get the boat on the trailer and the metal eye on the bow breaks before we can pull the boat out of the water. Good thing I had some rope in the truck. Managed to get on the hill before dark after a loooong day.
Trolling was the way to go. Most fish caught on green grub or electric chicken.
yep. Same kind of day. Trailer flat, rusted lug nut, rounded shoulders. Had to remove hub to get tire off and go buy new hub to get on water. It’s always something on a boat!
What kind of boat were you in, we were in nowell creek a couple of times Sat and threw everything at them. We did see some guys trolling and catching fish. Just wondered if it might have been you.
I was in a small McKee with one other guy. I passed one other boat exactly like mine, trolling up the creek as I was trolling out. Was this you?
Marsh Picker,
Ring free is a Yamaha product suggested to me by Charleston Marine. It is supposed to be an entire fuel system cleaner.
No, I don’t think so, we saw some guys trolling in a Jon boat, not a Mckee. Mine is a little bigger with the V bow and I have a tiger paw sticker on either side.