St. Andrews 08/18/2006

Post by **Chalk** » August 18th, 2006, 2:00 pm

Maiden Voyage of the Jack Plate started out with a dead battery yesterday, fixed that problem. Slide the Ghost rider into the bay around 0630 this morning....Spent the better part of an hour cutting donuts and testing the jack plate out and new steering cable..I need to adjust the cavitation anode, could hardly turn to the left under power...Jack plate seemed to launch the boat out of the hole better, RPMS were up, top end was the same.

On to fishing - Hit my faithful redfish bank, had the first red hit my topwater bait five times on three different cast before it hooked up....Nice 21" red in the box....Fished down the bank had several other reds on, missed some to....Decided to go exploring, headed over towards North Bay...Idled in looking for some trout, had a few strikes....Kinda boring so I ease over to the bank and start seeing bait and a few redfish...Ended up catching a 22", saw several big one's....Had one take me to skewl on topwater, most likely an overslot red

Ended up catching one more red and decided to call it a day. I can tell it's been almost two months since I went fishing...Headed to St. Joe in the morning

Post by **Sir reel** » August 18th, 2006, 2:27 pm

Glad ya got back on the water. Thanks for the report.

Good luck tomorrow.....shame ya can't find somebody to fish with whose more in keeping with your skill level.

Post by **tin can** » August 18th, 2006, 3:37 pm

Time to work on the prop.

Hope your partner doesn't drag ya down too far tomorrow.

BKTomblin Jr · Post by **BKTomblin Jr** » August 18th, 2006, 3:56 pm

Con-grats Chalk !!

Post by **Eerman** » August 18th, 2006, 5:16 pm

Glad the jackplate's working for ya. At least yer partner helps you accumulate those redfish tongues to keep you in business.

Post by **Chalk** » August 18th, 2006, 6:31 pm

Eerman wrote:Glad the jackplate's working for ya. At least yer partner helps you accumulate those redfish tongues to keep you in business.

That boy can't keep a secret

Post by **Redfish Jim** » August 18th, 2006, 7:18 pm

Gonna try 'em myself tomorrow.

Post by **Eerman** » August 18th, 2006, 8:35 pm

Chalk wrote:
Eerman wrote:Glad the jackplate's working for ya. At least yer partner helps you accumulate those redfish tongues to keep you in business.
That boy can't keep a secret

I swore to leave 'em all for you

Post by **rocket** » August 19th, 2006, 5:01 pm

Post by **birddog** » August 20th, 2006, 8:54 pm

Chalk wrote:
Eerman wrote:Glad the jackplate's working for ya. At least yer partner helps you accumulate those redfish tongues to keep you in business.
That boy can't keep a secret

The cat's outta the bag.