It’s taken me a couple of weeks to finally get two new starting batteries installed and all the gremlins extracted from the electrical system in my boat. 
The problems were left over’s that resulted from the visitors who removed my two starting batteries and my 7 spinning combo’s. 
In order to finally eliminate all the problems, I ended up having to replace my old fuse panel with a new one, reconnecting everything, removing the battery switch and reconnecting the correct wires. I wanted to test all my work and also evaluate how my backup fishing gear was going to work to prioritize what replacements would be made first. The backup gear was stored in my garage when the theft occurred, which is why I still have it. 
On the other hand, there was a reason it was in the garage covered in dust…. I sure do miss my old equipment!! 
The wife and I took off work at noon Friday and by 2pm we were on the water headed out of the lighthouse pool.
The parking lot looked like labor day weekend! The weather was beautiful and as we headed out I saw a fellow, who was wade fishing the bar, catch a nice trout which was encouraging. 
There were a bunch of boats drifting to the west of the river channel but I had already decided to head east so off we went. Stopped just west of Stony in about 5 ft and drifted in a easterly direction with the wind towards Black Rock. My wife was in her favorite spot sit’n on the pole’n platform and fishing a Cajun Thunder with a slurp. I put out another CT trailing from a rod holder and then started throwing various top water and suspended hard baits. The wife caught a nice trout but it was just barely short and went back. We had a few short Sea Bass come on board but nothing special. I had a lizard fish attack my super spook and put up a pretty good fight. Went back to fishing and then heard the wife say….â€
