06-23-2010, 09:00 AM
The lovely Mrs. EricM had to go to the airport early this morning so I hooked up the boat and went to the river. With the grabblers doing so well on the spawning flatheads, I thought that the blue cats would be back deep and out in force again. NOT.<br /> I wandered all over the nuke area looking for a few fish. Not a single fish from 7 am until about 9:45. Then I hit three 5 to 7 pound blues in 15 minutes, went fishless again for half an hour, and caught one more before I packed up and left at about 11:00 am. The breeze was perfect and the day was comfortable at that time. I watched and talked with others and very few fish were taken there again. Looks like they haven&#39;t drifted out of the shallows yet.<br />On the way back to the ramp, the motor suddenly started to rev and the speed dropped dramatically and the boat came off of plane. I was afraid that something had happened to the prop or insert, and I tilted the motor way up and saw no problem. when I again put it in gear, there was no problem at all and it worked great all the way back. I obviously picked up something on the lower unit that caused the prop to cavitate and dropped it off when I shut down or when I tilted the motor up. Strange!