[Boyce]

The prep has begun! See you fellas tomorrow

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[Boyce]

Great report!

I feel your pain on losing that jerkbait. Consider it a $12 admission fee to watch that trout put on that show. Sucks that happened, but I bet that was still entertaining to watch.

My motor did the same thing a few times about 3-4 months ago due to bad fuel. I put mercury fuel stabilizer in my tank every fill up and it hasn’t done it since. Maybe something easy like that could work for you.

[Boyce]

Great info. Before I got my Lowrance Ghost, I had a Minn Kota Edge and started having issues and worked on it myself. Much easier than I thought and like you mentioned, plenty of YouTube videos out there. I too used trollingmotorparts.com and replaced the brushes, armature, and seals for pretty cheap.

Minn Kota makes it easy! If you’re mechanically inclined already it’s even easier.

Thank you for sharing!

[Boyce]

You the man! Thank you!

Seems like the perfect time to get the kids on some easy fish.

[Boyce]

Welcome Tim. Glad to have you here!

[Boyce]

Hammer time!! Great report. Man, those are some big ass trout caught under a cork. That’s awesome!

Also, I like your first mate. He/she seems cool.

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[Boyce]

I think that fishing those rocks can yield you all kinds of fish. Definitely some redfish, black drum, and sheepshead. Flounder possibly too, but you will need to be fishing the bottom to get on some of them. If you do, be prepared for snags.

The south wind may make fishing those spots tougher unless you can get on the lee side of the rocks. If you have spot lock it’ll be much more doable, though 15 mph wind can kick up the waves pretty good.

If I were you, I would try dead shrimp or gulp under a cork and just work those stretches of rocks up and down.

As far as your graph goes, rocks are a great place to start learning side scan. Start idling down those rocks and graph it with your sidescan and screenshot or take a picture of what you’re seeing. Post it in here for feedback. The rocks will be obvious on sidescan, but really any anomaly you see on the bottom that’s different from everything else is noteworthy and could possibly hold some fish. You’ll want to play around with the contrast and the palette color until you find something you like. Sidescan takes a while to really know what you’re looking at, but the only way to learn it is to practice. Whenever you’re done fishing, go take a boat ride and graph stuff that you can see (like pilings, rigs, rocks, shells, etc.). That way you’ll know what they look like on the graph next time you see them.

Hope this helps. Good luck and let us know how you do. Even a report saying you caught zero fish is better than no report at all.

[Boyce]

I’m fired up for Saturday. Let’s go!!!

Great report again. Thank you!

[Boyce]

Ask the pilot if he can hover for a bit while you make a few casts…

[Boyce]

Using this forum as a “war room” while out on the water is elite level stuff. I love it.

Good luck out there!

[Boyce]

I know that search function was important to you, and for good reason.

Thank you for making this site what it is.

[Boyce]

Ain’t no party like an LAFB party. We going catching!

[Boyce]

Let’s go!!!

Should be a good day Saturday, I’m looking forward to it.

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I think it could be a best seller

[Boyce]

Haha the garden can always wait! Maybe you can knock both out if you smoke the trout and are back at the dock by 8:30 am. LOL.

If you are able to make it out, text me 225-955-9262. Would love to meet up.

[Boyce]

Damn man. Work getting in the way of fishing is the worst.