08-06-2006, 02:45 AM
It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. We caught our fair share of fish and Billy caught a few more than his fair share.[
] Caught a few trolling, but caught most of them vertically jigging in 36 to 40 feet of water. The trolling motor would keep dieing if we tried to run slower than about 2.5 mph. Caused me to lose my prescription glasses when they fell overboard while I was pulling on the starter rope. The large outboard would never get up to top RPMS and it slowed way down a few times. Thought it had totally died on me when it quit when I was just getting ready to trailer the boat. Ended up using the trolling motor to navigate through all of the boats in the marina that were also trying to get out before the storm hit – not fun. Found out in the parking lot that the only problem was that the temporary six-gallon gas tank that I was using had run dry. Frustrating because I had two gallons of extra fuel onboard and also I could have switched to the trolling motor fuel tank. Never could figure out how to use the Bottom Line 310 fish finder (even with reading the manual). If anyone is familiar with that fish finder I would be grateful for some tutoring on it.
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] Caught a few trolling, but caught most of them vertically jigging in 36 to 40 feet of water. The trolling motor would keep dieing if we tried to run slower than about 2.5 mph. Caused me to lose my prescription glasses when they fell overboard while I was pulling on the starter rope. The large outboard would never get up to top RPMS and it slowed way down a few times. Thought it had totally died on me when it quit when I was just getting ready to trailer the boat. Ended up using the trolling motor to navigate through all of the boats in the marina that were also trying to get out before the storm hit – not fun. Found out in the parking lot that the only problem was that the temporary six-gallon gas tank that I was using had run dry. Frustrating because I had two gallons of extra fuel onboard and also I could have switched to the trolling motor fuel tank. Never could figure out how to use the Bottom Line 310 fish finder (even with reading the manual). If anyone is familiar with that fish finder I would be grateful for some tutoring on it.[signature]