The last two days of my Spring Break have been drastically different from the first two. The week started with bank fishing and a few Largemouth Smallmouth and Spotted Bass receiving their lip piercings and photographs, a freaky Goldfish catch, and even the White Bass took time out to play a little. Wednesday was rainy and cold so shopping and a meal over in the Sevierville Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg area placated the wife and gave me a chance to get the boat prepped for some end of the week fishing. Thursday morning, dead cranking battery, it has been a little draggy and just wouldn’t take or hold a charge overnight, so time for a new one. I was hoping to receive the remote for my new trolling motor in the mail on Thursday, but no dice.
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This new brushless technology is awesome, and Friday was looking perfect for a trial run. Let’s go try this thing out and maybe catch a Crappie in the process.
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It didn’t take long to get my first victim, a fat Black fish couldn’t resist the Blue Chrome BGBS on a Daiwa Gekajibin glow jighead. I can’t say enough about this Varivas Avani Saltwater Finesse PE line, touted as the world’s smallest diameter braid, it is an excellent open water cast and retrieve line.
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I stuck several keepers and non keepers with this set up, the 7.6 ABU let me know real quick of any interested parties.
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Even the Crappie with the Racing Stripes were digging it, such a cool fish and this one had some shoulders on him. I closed the day out on a super nice White Bass, gave me all I wanted on the long stick, and after a quick pic it was time to head home.
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A decent haul for my efforts.
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And of course as soon as I got home the wife said “Your Remote came in the Mail today.” Oh well another story for another day. Thanks to Russell Marine for all the help and questions answered, a fine board sponsor. After everything was said and done for the week, this weather forecast for the weekend made me frown.
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Such weather as this should not be allowed….until next time get out there and fish, something is biting.
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