Seneca 05/11/2012

[ERABBIT]

Seneca 05/11/2012

Little nippy this am so I had a few extra coffee's then got the boat uncovered and ready to head out. Kinger boy was very good again launching , on the water and coming back in........he did give me that EYE when the wind and waves started building........I think it was about 10:30 am when I started letting the down riggers down so I could wire in the ground needed to make the short stop system work on my non-short stop riggers now wired for short stop.... .....anyway that went well it was just a small ripple on the water when I had 300 feet of cable down............got 3 rods ready with DW ss spoons dropped them down on three down riggers and started south.........surface temp was 45.5* to 46.4* never put the the X4 in or down had three reading all close.........first fish came on a moon cricket 35' back 4' back rigger angled in the prop wash 19" brown (female) with a small lampery which lost it head some how .............2nd 17' down 40' back not sure of the name of this spoon small landlock sub legal........... next one same rigger good fish but lost him before I got a eyeball on it head shaker and wanted to stay down best guess laker...............then one realese on the thrid rigger with no one home........waves were pretty good by then so I called it a day.........Kinger said about time...... ........when loading boat back on trailer wacked the side of those nice fancy Cannon rod holder on a peir post snapping the pin in the low-profile rigger.......good thing these pins are thinner that the old high profile ones or MUCH more damage would have been done...........looking at a better way to protect the riggers and bases.........

[Trolling Keuka]

it will be a few more days before I can get out again.

[ERABBIT]

Good Luck when you do..............there is a LOT of JUNK floating around also forgot to put that in my post.......weeds , leaves , sticks , branches , ( lots of small one but did hook up one good size on on the down rigger wire and one on a transducer or the X4 ducer didn't take me long to slow her down get the hook a move them out of the way..... )

[quality time]

Thats one brave dog! You should put a cape on him. Looks like underdog. You just need to teach him how to dock the boat so you can secure the lines on the dock

[ERABBIT]

..... You got that right QT....... .....save me a few bucks in repairs also

[quality time]

I've got a german shorthair that I have been wanting to get on the boat. I get limited trips on the water and just worried if things go bad I drive a couple hrs. for nothing. He loves fish and sets and begs for a taste. I even got a pfd for him. The thing that worries me is that he would freak out when we crank the big motor up. And he is a big dog over 90lbs getting in and out of the boat might be scary. Wes

[BrookTrout]

Yeah the wind picked up steadily today, glad you got out and got a few fish.

[buckboardjr]

Nice job Kinger and Ed!