Sat/sun On The Upper End

[rps]

Saturday I went upriver to cooler water. I was hoping to break my dry spell on walleye.

Did semi split shift fish as a battery died after about 15 minutes. A 24 volt motor on 12 volts is sad. I suspect the battery was too long on the shelf before they put it in my new boat last May. Did a warranty swap out in Cassville and went back on the water.

Caught trout, but I wasn't fishing for them.

Sunday I stayed around Holiday Island. Stumbled on some spotted bass chopping shad around 9:00 and caught five. No keepers hooked up, but I did have one explosion on the topwater that got my heart beating.

Finally found walleye, but not where I started looking. The ones I found weren't down 30+ feet. They were at 20 feet in tree tops. Basically you had to troll a crank at 20 feet and rip it out of tree tops. The hits came after the rip. Four non keepers plus this 25.5 inch male.

Two more days of teacher training, Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday I'll fish. Thursday is the first day for kids.

[Champ188]

Apparently Saturday was the day for trolling motor issues. Planned to spend the wkd in the James but snapped a steering cable around 2 p.m. Saturday. Up to then, caught one keeper LM and several short K's on shaky head and dropshot.

[rps]

Somewhere after our first boat, I guess we all become accustomed to the idea our rides are always an ongoing project. First this, then that, etc. I have sometimes wondered about the timing though. Very cold, very hot, very wet, and very broke seem to be the best times for a needed immediate repair, right?

[T-RockJaws]

That is right RPS... Never seems to be in perfect conditions when you just happen to have a little extra money!

[Donna G]

Well, I'm gonna steal Champ's thunder, but he always says that boat is not a word, it's an acronymn B.O.A.T. - break out another thousand. He got the trolling motor cable replaced about 10 last night. Made it back to the Rock tonight at 10. Looking forward to the next five days, I don't care if it is hot.

[T-RockJaws]

At least the humididty isn't going to be quite so high the next few days, enjoy! Hopefully that trolling motor cable will be the last thing to go wrong this year, had to replace one of those myself a few weeks ago.