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St. Andrews 08/18/2006

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 2:00 pm
by Chalk
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 :-D

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Posted: August 18th, 2006, 2:27 pm
by Sir reel
Glad ya got back on the water. Thanks for the report. :thumbup:

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

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 3:37 pm
by tin can
Time to work on the prop.

Hope your partner doesn't drag ya down too far tomorrow. :smt005

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 3:56 pm
by BKTomblin Jr
Con-grats Chalk !! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 5:16 pm
by Eerman
Glad the jackplate's working for ya. At least yer partner helps you accumulate those redfish tongues to keep you in business. :wink:

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 6:31 pm
by Chalk
Eerman wrote:Glad the jackplate's working for ya. At least yer partner helps you accumulate those redfish tongues to keep you in business. :wink:
:smt013 :smt010 That boy can't keep a secret :lol:

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 7:18 pm
by Redfish Jim
:thumbup: :thumbup:

Gonna try 'em myself tomorrow.

Posted: August 18th, 2006, 8:35 pm
by Eerman
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. :wink:
:smt013 :smt010 That boy can't keep a secret :lol:
I swore to leave 'em all for you :-D

Posted: August 19th, 2006, 5:01 pm
by rocket
:thumbup: :thumbup: :beer: :beer:

Posted: August 20th, 2006, 8:54 pm
by birddog
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. :wink:
:smt013 :smt010 That boy can't keep a secret :lol:
:lol: :lol:

The cat's outta the bag.