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.

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.

SWS,
As an X-Yankeee, all I have to say is "we" have enough trouble with Damn
Yankees, can't you complain about the dead lakes with no fish, rude
people, sudden onset of Tositoes, and flies big enough to steal
children? Sheesh, before you know it Harry will want to move south again.

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.

On Feb 18, 6:40*am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here
wrote:
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.

SWS,
As an X-Yankeee, all I have to say is "we" have enough trouble with Damn
Yankees, can't you complain about the dead lakes with no fish, rude
people, sudden onset of Tositoes, and flies big enough to steal
children? *Sheesh, before you know it Harry will want to move south again.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Not to worry, although Harry has never spent more than a day in
Atlanta, he doesn't like it. It's all because he doesn't live here.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:40:53 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

As an X-Yankeee, all I have to say is "we" have enough trouble with Damn
Yankees, can't you complain about the dead lakes with no fish, rude
people, sudden onset of Tositoes, and flies big enough to steal
children?

Like I care. :)

Great day today - man, plenty of striper action and I spent some time
crappie fishing - the crappie was unbelievable - non-stop.

The wind got up a little this afternoon when I got off the lake -
nothing drastic, but some of the locals were running for their lives
back to the ramp.

Hey - more fish for me. :)

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:41:08 -0500, JG2U wrote:

Was that you I saw out on the lake? I figured it must have been... a
southerner has enough sense to wait a couple of hours until it warms
up. :-)

Seriously, I may have seen you Saturday afternoon. I was on the
Bennington tritoon with the 150 hanging off the back. We went out of
Jake's.

Probably was - I was over that way when I caught the big striper. I
did see a Bennington with an abnormally largeish engine on it. :)

This is quite the lake - I rode around this morning just to get a
sense of size and place.

Pretty incredible.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:23:23 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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

It took me a long time to accept the whole jack plate concept, but,
and this is going to sound like a me too moment, once I installed one
on my Ranger, I became convinced.

I might even retrofit the mechanical one to a hydraulic one this
summer.

It takes some getting used to, but you can really tease some power
using the trim/tilt and jack plate.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:26:53 -0500, BAR wrote:

Just wait until the middle of March when SC switches over to Summer, hot
Summer, for 8 months of the year.

Oke doke by me.

On Feb 18, 5:31*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:26:53 -0500, BAR wrote:
Just wait until the middle of March when SC switches over to Summer, hot
Summer, for 8 months of the year.

Oke doke by me.

Brought out YaImKool today to start to clean the "winter" out of her.
I am getting antsy...

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:40:20 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Feb 18, 5:31*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:26:53 -0500, BAR wrote:
Just wait until the middle of March when SC switches over to Summer, hot
Summer, for 8 months of the year.

Oke doke by me.

Brought out YaImKool today to start to clean the "winter" out of her.
I am getting antsy...

It's a little early Scott. :)