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Steve B Steve B is offline
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Default A three hour cruise

We went fishing today after working stringing wire and conduit and boxes in
my container. Weather was bluebird clear until 30 minutes before we left.

Put out on the lake, and my new rewiring was all correct. Truck lights and
boat lights all worked properly. New modifications in side the boat did
good, too. GPS mount, anchor stowage supersized cleats, lots of little
things that were dragging. New battery box with external lugs.

The boat fired right up, after starting hard last week because I had not run
the gas out of the carbs, and it varnished up. We went fishing, and caught
a limit of eight chunky rainbows that all were right at 16". They were
hitting and hitting hard.

Took it out of the fishing area past No Wake buoys, and made two long fast
35mph passes, and it ran like a clock. Launch and recovery was easy, as I
had an intelligent assistant. Was able to determine where I want to put new
rollers, bunks, and guides by looking at the trailer with the boat off, and
observing it during launch/recovery. Turned into a gray dull day. Right at
sunset, the clouds broke, and there was a beautiful gold and purple sunset.
We caught two trout in about two hours, then with the sunset, caught six in
about twenty minutes.

It's getting there. Using the boat sure is the best way to figure out how
to improve things, and what you really want in your configuration. Hope to
go fishing weekly, except for if it is really cold. Going to try to figure
out the crappie on this lake. Looks like we're consistently hitting good
strings of nice sized rainbows.

Steve