08-13-2006, 03:42 AM
Fished Strawberry today with three family members. We did ok once we located them, had to move over in the crowd of boats by The Ladders. Second trip in the boat and the main outboard ran flawlessly. Only problem was after launching the boat I was headed into the dock to pick up the family when I discovered that the controls were locked and I couldn't shift from forward to neutral let alone reverse. Not a good feeling to be headed straight at a dock going a little too fast and not being able to shift in reverse to slow down. I grazed the corner of the dock, which of course was the only place on it that was bare wood. Cut a gouge about 10 inches long in the fiberglass. I will be taking it into a fiberglass shop right away to get that repaired and I need to figure out why the gearshift got stuck that time and on at least one other occasion. Fished with my brother-in-law who fishes with PowerBait almost exclusively. After not even getting a bite on PowerBait and watching my Grandson and I reel in several on tubes, vertically jigging, it didn't take long before he and his grandson were more than willing to learn how to vertically jig with tubes. Largest fish were several right at 22 inches and we caught two well under the slot and the rest were all in the upper end of the slot.
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