Russelo 4/18

[LongLine]

River launch at 5:30. Main fuse holder to dash melted ½ way out the channel, so have no idea what surface temps were. (Kind of embarrassing to lose your lights right in front of the CG station) Headed to Russell & west. West wind, very slight chop (less than a ft) Good cloud cover. Great feeling to be back on the water.

Picked up two little browns over roughly 20 FOW. Both on R&R melons, off riggers down 5 ft. Both quite feisty. This one had an interesting wound on its flank & looked like someone recently snagged it.

The Lake Guardian pulled into Rochester today. (EPA research vessel)

Out noon. Got to meet Yankee Troller at the launch, after all these years. Great to finally meet ya Rick.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[L&M]

Tom: Boat running all ok now?

[LongLine]

Hank - Seems to be. idled nicely. Blew a little smoke but not like before. May take a couple times for the oil mix to thin out. Didn't pull the cowl off. Will tomorrow. Found some water in the battery box which may be why she went dead. (don't have the foggiest notion how that got there. Was in basement all winter) Put the battery on charger after I picked it up from you then tested it nightly with hygrometer. Floated in the green every night. Charging at 14.4-15.9 per fishfinder. Wondering if the fuse holder has/had something to do with that.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[Yankee Troller]

Tom,

It was nice to meet you too! We fished the same waters for quite a long time without a face to face.