Santa I Ain't

Posted by ken on June 19, 2017

So apparently Santa checks his list twice...I went to Rayburn this weekend to do some scouting for the Bass Champs Shootout....and I did check the damn list, right there on top it says "Graphs"....got to Lufkin and realized that I left my Helix 12, and 1199, which is my backup, in my tackle room at home. I did remember to get the scotch on the list, but not the graph. So MoonPie (Aka Steve Evans) and I decide to fish the TABC tournament on Saturday in his boat, we launch at Hanks and make a pretty long run north and catch a limit in about 30 minutes and he notices that his livewell  (Triton, making no judgements here) has kicked off. So he goes back and discovers that they will come on for 1 second, but then the power kicks off. Over the next hour and a half he put on a very respectable show of turning the air blue while checking connections, scraping fuses, trying everything possible to get a fix. And by the way he's not just using expletives as nouns, I'm pretty sure he put an entire sentence together about an hour into his frustration using only expletives, noun, adverb, verb, and maybe even a conjunctive adverb, nothing but expletives, pretty dang impressive for a guy from Lufkin. I did learn that I can fish when my partner is working on the boat, and cussing kinda loud, and was able to cull up to 15.6 lbs by 10:00, but our ice was running low and we had a livewell full of fish so we ran back to Hanks, drove to my place in Zavalla, got my boat (with no depthfinders) and spent the rest of the day catching jack crap. Then Sunday, well kinda hard to spend anytime offshore when not only can you not see waypoints but you don't know how deep you are. Two lessons here, check the list, twice, and save your waypoints to the in dash graph vs sharing, because if they are only on one, and that unit is 200 miles away....    

 Oh and by the way if you were up Marion's Ferry area and heard the expletives, sorry.