[Boyce]

Tough day— I know them all too well. A guide I know in that area only caught redfish and black drum today, so maybe it was just tough on everyone. I know the Barataria Basin won’t be acting funny for long, I’m sure it’s about to be hammer time. Great report!

[Boyce]

Another cool thing about the cranking battery: it has a power reserve mode. Meaning it will not allow itself to get below a certain percentage to make sure it has enough juice to start the motor. Though I doubt I would ever run it down that low.

[Boyce]

WBJ. You’re not only the King of the Westbank, you’re the King of Consistency.

[Boyce]

Dude the finicky fish were so annoying. I started netting them all for a while lol. I netted a 13 incher.

[Boyce]

That’s a great box of fish. Great report! Hopefully Boat Stuf gets you rolling quick!

[Boyce]

Yeah me too, and I will continue to do so. I need backup plans to my backup plan.

[Boyce]

[Boyce]

With his FFS, he could see all of this by just turning the TM head. For someone without it like all of us, we would have to troll around and look at downscan to find them again, which increases the chances of spooking them.

[Boyce]

They weren’t circling it while I was watching him. They were set up on a corner of the rig and would move to the opposite corner, then they would move off the rig about 100 yards. Basically he was set up at a 45 degree angle on the corner of a rig and they would move from his left, to his center, to his right.

[Boyce]

WBJ is good for a limit every trip. If there was a betting line in Vegas on WBJ getting a limit, I’m sending the house.

[Boyce]

Ahhhh that makes sense

[Boyce]

I agree with that, it would be awesome to just use it to watch how the fish behave and move underwater.

He absolutely was on them and I wasn’t. I didn’t want to get up on his bite, so I just fished around him. But with the FFS, he was able to stay on them much more easily. Every time they moved, he moved with them.

[Boyce]

I genuinely do not know, so can you explain how this set up would help out with hook sets during a finicky bite?

[Boyce]

There was a period yesterday where maybe 4-5 in a row either threw the hook or got off at the boat. I would’ve tried that in heart beat lol.

[Boyce]

In the moment all I was thinking about is how I could be so stupid to not have such a high powered sonar device on my boat where I could merk speckled trout at will while some other poor soul in a red boat watches.

But in all seriousness, yeah that was the first time I’ve ever seen it in action and it’s sorta BS. Just makes it too easy.