[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]

Sounds like a pretty awesome trip! Man, it was so hot out there today, I thought about getting in the water with them several times too lol.

[Boyce]

Great intel, thank you! I’ll be out tomorrow and this is helpful.

I have a similar issue ongoing in my boat. First start of the morning lately, I’ll turn the key and get nothing. Try 3-4 more times and it fires right up and is good to go the rest of the day. I can’t pinpoint my issue either.

I was going to recommend looking at the starter solenoid, but I see you’re already on top of that.

[Boyce]

WBJ is the man!

[Boyce]

I’ll be flying solo in Lake P Saturday. I plan to launch at the butt crack of dawn and hit the bridges before the crowd shows up. That could be 2 hours or 10 minutes, who knows. Once I’m surrounded by the GNO population, I’ll head out to other areas of Lake P. I may take a look at the rocks near Irish Bayou, the east shore of Lake P, then I’ll probably venture into Lake Catherine. I’ll be running around like my hair is on fire if I have to.

It looks like Speckled Trout are chewing all over the place, but I’m trying to temper my expectations. Last time I got too fired up in Delacroix when everyone in LAFB was fishing that morning, and I came back with the worst box out of everyone. Lol.

[Boyce]

Strategy number 2 is to search Lake P for @will-grand ’s boat and mooch off him because we all know he will be hammering them. 😂

[Boyce]

When I first got my boat, I was idling around an area I was unsure of, and sure enough I hit some rocks with my lower unit. Now, I was only going 3-4 mph, so all that happened was a little ding on my skeg and a bend blade on my prop, so I replaced my prop, put some JB weld on the skeg, and re-painted it. That’s a helluva lot less expensive than replacing a destroyed lower unit. Hitting something while idling will at least keep your fishing trip going most of the time.

[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.

[Boyce]

That was probably about 10:30 or so

[Boyce]

I’m gonna say 50. Good weather will bring the Facebook fisherman out in full force! The trollers gonna be thicccc

[Boyce]

Now this is a brilliant idea that I’ve never thought of. Great advice!