Well as many of you know, the boat engine died a while back and I have been relying on some of the best people in the world to take me fishing. Well as good as that is and as blessed as I am to have such friends I can say that I finally got my boat back and I am so thankful. Dave R at Coastal Marine did a great job and let me help to save some money and learn. Not that I want to do this again. It was (now looking back at it) a great experience.
I took the boat out most of this weekend to do all of the sea trials and to break the motor in properly. A fairly extensive procedure and the final leg was to go full throttle for 10 min. WOT turned out to be 4400 RPM and 43 mph. That is just too fast for me, the boat felt out of the water and not 100% under me so that will be the last of that maneuver.
Well to fishing, we got back from church this afternoon and decided to go Spanish Mackerel fishing. The water was too rough for Angelique (aka Chuck for those that know us well). We stayed out for about 30 min of fishing. Caught five threw one back but got enough for a good meal and lunch tomorrow. We are beyond blessed to have the best seafood at our fingertips in Reedville.
We fished around R2 to 1GW and just around that area, it was too rough to go out further. Just a note, I didn’t see anything that I would take for stripers out there so early season for stripers will be in the river and creeks. I’ll let you know when that changes.
Ran my normal setup and as normal there was only one rod that continued to go off. It was the same green that I had in one of the previous posts. Chuck did a good job of getting the fish in while I drove the boat.
Weather:
- Waves were two to three feet, from the south which meant we were in the ditch the whole time.
- Air Temp 82
- Water Temp 75
- Pressure 30.11
- Very clear sky and beautiful
- Low tide 11:46 AM
