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I know I'm too lazy to go fishin in this hot weather but I expect better out of you guys. Or are we to lazy to post reports in this hot weather. I look forward to Monday mornings to read reports but not much to read lately with the exception this morn of Tin Can and the short but sweet report from Jumptout .
Do you happen to recall what the weather was like on Saturday? Did you see the radar for the Bay on Saturday morning?
Yesterday was probably a doable in the PM but it was rain'n real good in the morning.
Saturday, (Cobb rock and East) I was on the water at 7:15 and on the trailer by 9:30 just beating the storms(lots of noise and flash'n) advance'n in from off shore. Since I was mostly exploring and checking some numbers, I would arrive at a point, check the bottom and then move to the next spot I wanted to check. I had 8 spots....I was able to make it to 3. I made maybe a dozen casts in total before I started to run back in along with 5 or 6 other boats running from the weather. West of us (where TC's report came from) I think the weather may have been more suitable. Sorry for the tone... but I'm frustrated by the lack of time I was able to be out as well.
"Good Judgement" comes from experience, ... and a lot of that..... results from "Bad Judgement".
Ok... Ok... I went fishing with my old retired fishing buddy who lives down in Lannark. There are still huge piles of storm debris on the roadside from Lannark to Eastpoint. Hwy 98 looks really good since many sections of it had to be re-constructed. In the water at 7:00am and it was smooth as glass till about 1:00pm when the storms came. Visibility of 2.5 feet and water was tainted (looked allot like St Marks on any given weekend) Water was a little cleaner near Turkey point shoals. Caught 5-6 shorts. Only picked up 1 keeper Trout @ 21", 1 12" flounder, 1 10" whiting, and 2-3 stockwells. .... Got speared by one of them and my finger is still swollen. Lots of bait in the water, and that made the fish were pretty finicky. Spotted lots of Sea Turtles and Manta Rays. There were lots of large mats of floating grass near Turkey point. My buddy said it's the darn "commercial scalloping boats" dredging in the gulf tearing up the grass.... Not much to report......
Time is the most precious commodity we have in life, stay focused.
Way to much lighting & rain for me.. 2 buddies did run west from econfina Saturday early other side of Aucilla and picked up 4 keeper Redfish in about & hr. Spoons & spinnerbaits, I saw em cleaning them at 8:30 after they got ran in, and before you ask, yes they only kept 2.
Me and the wife sent late Sat. evening at the St. George bridge, after the rain finally passed over. Got a few nice croakers and lots of Stockwells. A lot of people there, everybody did about like we did. One trout caught by guy with shrimp, he let it go. We wanted to go back yesterday morning but it rained so much we just came home. Nice weekend. You're right, MJ,lots of debris on 98.
mjsigns wrote: There were lots of large mats of floating grass near Turkey point. My buddy said it's the darn "commercial scalloping boats" dredging in the gulf tearing up the grass.... Not much to report......
There aren't any commercial scalloping boats anymore inshore. There is no more legal commercial harvest. The bay scallops you buy in the store come from Asia, mostly China, where they are aquaculture grown.
Usually, this time of year, seagrass normally sloughs off blades and it is worse because of the recent storm. Bay shrimpers can mess up the grass but I think this is natural right now.
Very nice can't wait to get my boat back and in the water again
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Wevans- They still holding your boat hostage? You coulda ordered a new T& T unit and installed it yourself by now.... what's it been 5 weeks? Who's doing the foot dragging ?
Time is the most precious commodity we have in life, stay focused.
Try 8 weeks Yamaha has been a big holdup They have replaced the hull once the rectifier/regulator twice, the stator and now "after trying to rebuild it" the T&T unit I got a feeling that my ownership of their boat and motor combo has cost them a bit more than they made from the sale of course, it would help speed up things a good bit if Advantage had a couple more mechanics working also
PS: The Yammy tech. told Randy at Advantage that my rectifier was going out because my batteries needed to be in a box and not a battery tray "on an Aluminum boat" I told Randy that if that was the case, then Yammy needed to do a recall on ALL of their G3's cause the boat came from Yammy as well "Randy didn't know that G3 was a Yammy product" and that if that was the problem, that Yammy could pay for him to put the batteries in a box as well
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
but I expect better out of you guys. Or are we to lazy to post reports in this hot weather. I look forward to Monday mornings to read reports but not much to read lately 
with the exception this morn of Tin Can and the short but sweet report from Jumptout 
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Did you see the radar for the Bay on Saturday morning? 
Yamaha has been a big holdup 
They have replaced the hull once the rectifier/regulator twice, the stator and now "after trying to rebuild it" the T&T unit 
of course, it would help speed up things a good bit if Advantage had a couple more mechanics working also 
I told Randy that if that was the case, then Yammy needed to do a recall on ALL of their G3's cause the boat came from Yammy as well 
"Randy didn't know that G3 was a Yammy product" and that if that was the problem, that Yammy could pay for him to put the batteries in a box as well 
report is better than none. 
