Snow, sleet, rain, “dippin’ dots” looking soft hail, sun, blue sky, rain again…what a crazy weather day for fishing.
Congrats to all of the teams that did well on Saturday! You guys definitely earned it…and any team that braved the elements and stayed out there all day deserves an “Attaboy” award. T-tops work pretty good, but Brad and I were talking about how nice that pilot house on Donnie’s boat would be on a day like that, especially with a heater going!
Our day started out with my bait tank motor going bad so we had to deal with that for a while and get the onboard bait tank going and the bait switched over. It worked perfectly on Friday, so go figure. Two keepers in the boat in the first hour or so…then nothing for six hours except stripped baits and a lot of short strikes. Very frustrating, because we were over fish and a ton of bait nearly all day.
To top it off, some enterprising, sniper-in-training wannabe decided it would be fun to shoot my boat with two red paint balls on the ride home!! I would love to meet this little warrior because it’s a lot of fun to get that off of yellow gelcoat. They would have been directly involved in cleaning that up if I knew who it was. It had to be paint balls…two globs of impact spots and a nice long, smear of red trailing each spot. Oh well…I’m supposed to pray for them, so guess I’ll have to get to work on that…
The highlight of the day for us is that my niece, Kaitlyn, did win the lady angler award. She also caught one of our fish that we weighed in and my son Randy netted it for her, so that was pretty cool. They did a good job hanging in there with us on tough day.
No doubt the Pilot House was enjoyed Sat, but the ride up I-77 was a different story. at MM 32 NB we saw 4-5 bass boat rigs pilled up together with several other cars involved. That was probably a bad day!! 35MPH all the way back to Rock Hill Congr to Shawn,Big John & Woody.
Billy, sounds like you had about the same day fishing we had. We caught 2 decent ones in the 1st 10 minutes of fishing. We thought it was going to be an easy day; however our 3rd and final keeper did not come for another couple hours after the big blue. If that cat had stripes and no whiskers, we’d been a couple hours early for weigh-in:smiley: But as for the stripers, it was a frustrating, short striking day.
Congrats to everyone who braved the elements to fish Saturday but especially to Team Overtime. Way to go Daniel on your 3rd place, big fish and youth angler! Now go clean the boat
Everything worked perfect on Friday when Shawn and I fished. Saturday morning sitting in our spot at 6:30 waiting on 7:00, couldnt get my trolling motor to turn left or right. Changed out battery in FOB, still wouldnt work. Figured out that the problem was in the spirally cord going from the base to the head of the trolling motor. If I held the cord tight, it worked fine. Finally figured out after about 2 hours of heck, that it would work if I wrapped the cord around the trolling motor to keep pressure on the connection at all times.
Still made me scared to move all day so we stayed in the same spot/area all day trolling around and didnt move until time to go to the weigh-in. Had a decent day, but couldve been better.
Hoping it is just a loose connection. Didnt have a chance to work on it Sunday or yesterday.
