Fishing with Dee, Dan, and Steve 5/16/18

I left the house at 4:20 again...hit Speedway and then met the crew at Big Bopper's again for breakfast.  

I told them I had to hit the bait shop on the way, and that I would meet them at the Catawba ramp as soon as I was done.  They found it okay, and I readied the boat for launch. We headed north from the point, and looked for marks on the Helix, while the boat was on plane...(how cool is it to have a tool that will do that? I love it!)

Anyway...once we found some, I told them that we were running the same crawler harness program we ended up with yesterday.  The program was 1oz inline weights at 30 and 40 back, and 2oz inlines 23, 25, 27, and 30 back...at a speed of 1.3-1.5mph. (The color of the harness and blade didn't seem to make much difference, because I had a handful of different colors out and all of them caught fish at some point or another.

There was a full four-person limit caught today, using the crawlers. Sure, maybe it's not as fast as others out there, but to me, it's not a contest. My tournament days are over.  And, the only person I am in a contest with, is myself and the fish.  It's about the customer's experience, and teaching them how to do what I do to catch fish. We share some laughs, listen to some great music...I get to hear some great stories from their memories...and, from time to time, we get interupted to reel in some fish. :)

The weather was perfect today. It was a light NE wind, partly cloudy sky, and a temp in the high 60's. (Sorry, I never even looked at the water temp today).

I had a great time with Dee, Dan, and Steve and look forward to fishing with them again next season. Dee and Steve had fished with me before, but Dan was the "new guy", so it was nice to hear that he also wanted to come back next year too. And, that made me happy...:)

Tomorrow's forecast is much the same as today, but the winds will be even lighter than they were today, so it should be a very enjoyable day on the lake in the morning. Woot! Woot!

Friday's trip has already been rescheduled, due to very gusty winds from the NE (30mph).

Tomorrow, I have some return customers, and I look forward to fishing with them again.  I'm pretty positive I'll be running crawlers again. They are working too well right now not to. :)

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls