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My dad and I went out of Myers yesterday morning. Crossed below the girl scout camp and fished the west side heading north. Lots of bait in 75 to 100 ft of water all through the water column. Ran through that but didnt pick up anything. Finally got 1 laker on a gambler rig in 140. Then the ol mam decided he had had enough and we came in. Not many fish but a great time together. Nice pup!

What do you think of tomorrow afternoons wind? I saw it's supposed to be from the south, which is good. And supposed to ease up around 2 or 3pm, which is good. Just debating on making another run up....

I had decent screens in 45 to 60, but some of those might have been the browns like the one I caught. Weird thing was it hit a green mag spoon. I launched out of mexico. The ride over wasnt bad at 130 or 2, but by 4 it was starting to get a little sketchy for fishing solo. I took a couple 3 footers that came rolling through and decided to call it. Even though it was only a couple hours, it was great to be out.

One brown....50ft of water down 30. Fished from 2 to 4 before getting off. It got a little to rough for my liking with my 16ft.

Made the decision and sent the boss an email, I'm heading up tomorrow afternoon. Most likely out of Mexico and heading towards the river. Blue and white starcraft. I'll be on the radio. Goodluck everyone and be safe 👍

I'm thinking of making a run up out of mexico tomorrow afternoon for the afternoon/evening bite. Fellow small boater here, I have a 16ft starcraft. I have only fished lake O with a south wind. What do you think those north northwest winds at 6mph would do to the waves? Im debating on if it's worth trying to come up. I know typically with a nw wind it gets rough.

Hey guys. As in many of my previous threads, I just got done totally gutting and re-building my boat this spring. One thing I didnt realize with switching from carpet to all vinyl on the floor is that the gas tanks and batteries under the splashwell would slide around on the vinyl. I'll admit that they weren't secured on the old carpet which I know was not good. For the past couple months I've just been using a tie down across the front to keep them from sliding forward, but they still moved side to side some. Yesterday afternoon I put the finishing touches on it. I bought 8 stainless eye hooks and 4 cam buckle ratchets. I drilled holes in the floor and put the eye hooks in and tied everything down. I covered a small block of wood with vinyl and screwed it to the floor behind the left side battery so it doesn't slide back into the trim pump (mounted on the inside of the transom).The only thing I need to do is to take ghe eye hooks back out and put some 5200 around them to try and seal them up a bit. I'm happy with how it turned out. Everything is super tight and neat, and itll still be easy to remove the tanks for filling. It's hard to tell from the pics, but each battery is tied down with it's own strap. Then the big tank is tied on it's own. The kicker motor tank and the smaller tank are tied with one strap as well. I just thought I'd share.

Not to derail this topic...I am on the lake now by taughannock. I saw the boat heading north in the distance about a half hour ago. I always monitor channel 16 on the radio just for the sake of it. They just came over the radio stating they were doing marine research near the middle of the lake and that they are towing a 2500 foot cable with an un manned boat at the rear and that if anyone has any questions to respond. For whatever it's worth, I thought it was interesting

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I'll be out of both myers and long point this weekend. Will see if they are out and about again this weekend

I saw them very close to shore right off Myers while I was loading out around 1030am Sunday morning.

Do you think the green poses any threat to keeping fish from it? Other than looking around and making sure your not in a copious amount of algae or anything.