On Feb 18, 6:25*am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
Arrived around noon on Saturday - picked up the Ranger Z21 with ETEC
250 and hit the lake. *It was great out there running around, checking
the lake's topo map against my depth finder and GPS. *Did a little
fishing and caught a few schoolie stripers - fun on light tackle.
Talking to a few locals at the ramp and bait shop and they were all
complaining about how cold it was in the morning - 50 degrees.

HA!! *Pansies.

I was out Sunday morning at six am and didn't get off until around 2 -
beautiful weather, temps in the 60s (start temp in the low 50s) -
unbelievable that I was the only one out there until about 9 am.

HA!! Pansies.

Fishing wasn't bad at all - smallish largemouth and some schoolie
stripers down by the dam. *Caught a nice 33 inch striper in about the
same place I caught one last summer using Rayz sal****er eel imitation
of all things at about 90 feet. *Marked a lot of fish around
structure, but that was the only taker at that depth. *Others were
schoolies working blue back herring about five feet below the surface.

Anyway, the Ranger is quite the boat. *I've ridden and tested my fair
share, but never had the chance to fish out of one. *I like it a lot -
very comfortable, plenty of room for two or more, this one has
electronics up the wazoo and of course, the ETEC which really makes
the boat sit up and motivate. *This is the first time I've had to play
with a hydraulic jack plate on a bass boat - that's an experience -
almost scary the speeds one can generate.

Enjoying the weather immensely. *Mrs. Wave is going to have a fight on
her hands trying to get me back to CT. *:)

Heading out now even though it's raining - I can avoid the raindrops.
Mrs. Wave and the girls are going shopping.

Me? *I'm going fishing.

Yeah, while my boat doesn't have a jack plate, my friend's does. My
next bass boat will have one.