Hey CP better get that fuel tank gauge fixed. That reminds me my fuel gauge cork float is bad also. LOL I better get my own fuel gauge fixed.

Lucky for me that I only use an electric trolling motor these days in the local pits. That is electric TM only lake. But I have a 6 gallon tank of gasoline in the boat and another 6 gallons of gas in the boat also. Then I carry a 2 gallon can as backup. So I hope that I never run out of gas again. Been there and done that in the past. Once the motor got stuck in reverse and we had to go backward on the Ohio River for two miles to reach the launch ramp. And it was going UPSTREAM to boot. LOL That was a long horrible night out on the river. Now we always take two boats just in case one breaks down.

Good to see that you and Paul are getting some fishing done and posting some reports.

I myself may have to get the boat fired up and head up to Patoka Lake.

I had to reformate my computer so now I should be able to get the scannner going better so that I can finish making my digital maps of the paper maps that Larry let me borrow. That project got bogged down when my computer kept dying everytime I tried to scan one of the maps. I am using Paint Shop Pro ver 8.01 now and hopefully after reinstalling it onto my freshly reformated hard drive it will work with the borrowed scanner better and I can finish this project and finally got fishing at Patoka lake with better knowledge of where stuff it located under the water.



Quote Originally Posted by crappiepappy
Partner Paul and I went to T-ville in search of some "action" ....

Lake was about 4ft above pool ...
Water clarity was normal - water temps in low 80's ...
Post Cold Front - NE winds - Bluebird Skies - Cool air temps/Low Humidity ...
Partner Paul caught one nice Hybrid Striper around 2lbs - trolling small Hot-n-Tot with Pearl curly tail jig trailer - fish came on Hot-n-Tot crankbait ...
I caught several Bass on a Baby Bass Wiggle Wart ... and a couple of hand sized Green Sunfish (on same bait) ...
No Crappie were caught - we didn't fish for them for very long, since conditions did not favor them being in a biting mood.
Contrary to two weeks ago, the Shad schools we saw were of the larger sized baitfish (3-4 inch size) - we saw none of the schools of 2 inch-2.5 inch Shad that I'd seen two weeks ago. But, the constant 10-15mph winds that kept the water pretty choppy, may have kept them deeper. It also kept the White Bass & Hybrids from doing much in the way of "Jumps" - the jumps we saw were single Hybrids or Largemouth Bass.

Due to a "critical oversite", we ran out of gas :rolleyes: and had to be towed back to the ramp. Many thanks to the gentleman in the Sylvan Pontoon boat, for the tow. This unfortunate circumstance cut our fishing time down considerably ... but we were able to get in about 4hrs of actual fishing time (730AM-1130AM) before the discovery. ...............cp