06-03-2010, 09:00 AM
First fishing trip in the new ride with my better half.<br />Took a fall in the shiny new to me boat and blasted both knees.<br />Very painful, but funny in a way too. I survived and learned another lesson of course.<br />I am getting more comfortable with it and I know this hole in the water is what I wanted.<br />Susan enjoyed it and we both like how it runs. The only thing I forgot the trolling motor was down and as we accelerated, we got washed down by shaft in the water, no harm done, but another lesson learned emoTeacher <br />On to the fishing... emoAngler <br />No water moving and T storms threatening we searched and rode around.<br />Tried bluffs hmmmm no water moving. Went to a bridge and started on some crappie and Susan caught a nice slab.<br />Weather started getting iffy, so we went to training dock #1 and finally squeezed a shot or two under it to snag a few more slabs on 16s and 32s of various colors. BG and PA in any color as long as we could get it into position for our finicky fish.<br />We cut our trip short as the rain and lightning showed up and successfully took the boat out at the ramp.<br />I took a pic of Susan&#39;s first crappie from her new boat!<br />God blesses us in so many ways all the time! emoCool