Shaws Bluff

[straw hat]

Well not as good a trip as last time. We only caught 6 keeper crappie. This summer we have caught nearly all our fish on fallen logs and rock drop offs and virtually none on standing timer. Fish were all caught 6 to 10' deep on windy banks.Water was a lot greener than 2 weeks ago. Water temp 88 to 90 at the surface and 87 to 89 down 5 feet. When we finally packed it in and headed back to the launch, about half way my motor sound changed suddenly and the motor started shaking very bad. I looked back at the motor and there was a rubber gasket from where the top unit attaches to the bottom unit. et hanging down. So I have to add that to my project list. When we finally got home and my wife started to open her door on the truck the handle broke into 100 pieces, very sharp pieces to boot. Never seen one do something like that. The mechanism jammed in the open position so I had to tie the door shut with a bungee cord. Well, there is another thing to add to the project list. That is life though. The good news is it gives us something to complain about.  lol

[Dutch]

Sorry to hear about your troubles.   I hope you don't have a 3rd shoe to fall.

I sure hope some are around standing timber as I am taking a guy long polling on Monday.  Of course we will be fishing shallow standing timber and shallow brush piles.

[straw hat]

You may do Ok. Ours were all shallow. Good luck.