10-18-2018, 09:00 AM
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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Tried a nearby channel drop off with fish on the screen. Deep diving spinnerbait. No luck. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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’. <br /><br />Reading other reports, I obviously should’ve been frogging it. I was thinking it was still too warm, but obviously not. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.