Hughes 5/2 Shakedown

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Left the house a little late (on purpose) with it being the first time out with the boat and trailer. Pulled out a little after 5:30.

 

Launch is looking better than ever with dock upgrades. Channel reportedly has been dredged. 

 

Boat started right up, so that's a good start in itself.

 

What boats we could see (not many) were hugging the shore line so suspect some kind of brown bite was on. Didn't see any move out in the course of the mourning, so assume the must have been catching something?

 

We decided to try for Kings and Lakers. Not a minute or two after getting out the first dipsey (60 on the counter) we got a nice later in about 50 FOW.  Got the other dipsey out on the other side and after a few minutes, lost a screamer.

 

Thought we were on to something, but that was not the case.

 

Turned around and headed West. We have a Mercury Smart troll which works great with one major problem. It allows us to dial in RPM to +/- 20 RPM. Bad thing is 1000 RPM is the maximum. We were told  a few years ago there was a fix, but haven't seen it let. Going West a speed was messed up (to slow most of the time when we going directly into it. When we angled towards shore we did get a high teens king on the same dipsey we got the lake on.

 

Managed one more laker on the DR (30 Down). Maybe should have worked the inside for browns? Called it quits at about 11:00 A.M.. 

 

Boat ran great and we got a nice King, so it was good.

 

Didn't mark much bait in 40 to 60, but some. Every now and then there were pods of very large hooks hanging around 30 to 40 that we assume were kings, but???

 

May take a shot at it Sunday? Surprised about the breeze today. Cool going with it, but hard to control speed going the other way. 

 

If we get a better start Sunday, may initially take a shot with boards in close.