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Anyone know someone who practices warding off of bad luck?
Bob and I met for breakfast in Centerville and proceeded down 29 and 15 to go get my boat. Everything is fixed:
- Water in the fuel issue is resolved....we found the culprit.
- New transducer installed (the one that came in the box was bad) so I now have water temp reading.
- All the lights work.
So...after a 2 hour ride down and then another 2+ hour ride to the ramp, we got on the water by 1pm.
Water temps was 63 and it went up a few degrees during the afternoon.
Here is where I need the medicine man. As we went upriver using the trolling motor, I stayed right, forgetting about some rocks that I hit with the TM last Wednesday. I hit them again today. this time, I broke one of the blades of the TM prop. Really?
Two good things: 1. Cabelas has them in stock 2. the TM ran great (a little rough) with only 1 blade. This is a really good unit.
OK, we get to the spot and I proceed to hammer the shad while Bob watched (at 1st). But once he got into the rhythm, he did great and most likely finished with more than me.
I bet we caught 60-70 shad, maybe more, I doubt less. We had many doubles and I had two at a time once. Also caught a huge crappie that got off as i tried to hoist him in the boat. We both said that Curly would have jumped in after it!
We had a blast!
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Never heard back from VDGIF if they caught the hickory poachers there today...............
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Shad! Those are some real cool colors.
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Great report! Just out of curiosity, what was causing the water in the fuel?
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Bryan wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what was causing the water in the fuel?
The gas tank has an air vent. I also had a swim platform installed. At some speeds, water gets kicked up and forced into the air vent. Shouldn't happen but it did. He moved the vent tube over a bit and installed a different cap on it which should do the trick.
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