Breaking In The New Boat 2025
Bluebasser86 reply :
Well I finally got my boat back from getting a bit of routine maintenance done and a hot foot installed and had a chance to get it out for the first real fishing trip on Friday. I think Lake was a little disappointed when he found out he couldn't go.
I met Sam (G_money) on the way to the lake and we were the first boat on the water, man was it cold! I forgot my full fingered gloves and my fingertips were so cold after about 10 minutes I could barely stand it. It started out a bit slow but thankfully the fish started to play a little bit to help keep our minds off the cold. The official first fish in the new boat 
I was having issues hooking up with a jerkbait for some reason. Fish were getting it good it appeared like but were still pulling off. I got a couple on it though, a custom painted bait by our own Doc-Drew!
I was also trying out a new color bladed jig, which the fish seemed to approve of, including the biggest smallie of the day and probably my biggest smallmouth on one of my bladed jigs.
The fish seemed to be more on the shallow, clay bank side than the rocky side for some reason. I'm guessing it was the wind blowing into it though.
Sam never asked me to take a picture of his fish so I got one of my fish with him fighting a fish in the background.
Several other boats on the water, but other than 2 little white bass, we were the only boat either of us saw catch any fish. Felt really good to finally get some slime in the boat 
roadwarrior reply :
WOW!
Who says it has to be slow in February?
Great pics, too!
blackmax135 reply :
Sweet!!
BassnChris reply :
That's cool!
Errrrrr.......I mean COLD.
Great looking fish! And Boat!
Senko lover reply :
Nice fish Bluebasser. I don't know if there's an "envious" emoticon, but this one came pretty close: 
Dyerbassman reply :
Great job!
Smokinal reply :
Very nice! You got em on a little bit of everything too.
Dang, I'd do just about anything to go fishing right now...
Dwight Hottle reply :
That's the way to get a new boat slimed. Congrats.
00 mod reply :
Great first trip out! Congrats!
Jeff
Siebert Outdoors reply :
Very cold but awesome catching
paul. reply :
that is super cool. dude y'all whacked 'em. i wish i could make myself use a suspending jerkbait more cause i know they are great winter lures, but i HATE fishing with those things. just lookin' at those pics makes me cold. no one should question your dedication ever.
jbw252 reply :
Congrats. Great pic of Lake at the helm!
kickerfish1 reply :
Nice boat and fish!
tomustang reply :
Nothing can beat that first photo
Smokinal reply :
On 2/16/2015 at 2:39 AM, tomustang said:Nothing can beat that first photo
Yup. Put a 2x4 on the Hotfoot, a couple New York phone books on the seat and he's ready to ride!
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 2/16/2015 at 2:25 AM, kickerfish1 said:Nice boat, and fish
Thank you, I was really happy in both cases
On 2/16/2015 at 2:39 AM, tomustang said:Nothing can beat that first photo
I didn't think so either.
On 2/16/2015 at 2:55 AM, Smokinal said:Yup. Put a 2x4 on the Hotfoot, a couple New York phone books on the seat and he's ready to ride!
He really looks like he knows what he's doing sitting there doesn't he? Put him in the captain's seat and he gets excited and starts trying to crank on the wheel. Can't wait for it to warm up so Lake and momma can come out in the boat with me!
Bankbeater reply :
Way to work those February bass!
everythingthatswims reply :
Any fish on that swimbait yet? Nice job on the bass, what sort of temperatures were you working with from the plant?
G_money reply :
On 2/16/2015 at 10:48 PM, everythingthatswims said:Any fish on that swimbait yet? Nice job on the bass, what sort of temperatures were you working with from the plant?
The water up around the outlet was around 60. And no nothing on the swimbait. I haven't been on in a while...I'm still recovering from that cold. Of course Clayton had to start at 7:00 am when it was 19 degrees with a ton of wind...I honestly thought I may get hypothermia the first 3 hours, I was underdressed. Around noon I finally got on a steady 4" senko bite and caught quite a few. By that point I was so zoned it, and so cold:) I didn't even think to take pictures...I didn't even realize Clayton took the one of me fighting the fish. I had a 3-4# bass come off right at the boat...otherwise a decent day...I thought 25 fish or so between us was good. Honestly 1/2 the day or more our eyelets were icing over about every 4 or 5 minutes it was cold!
I really wanted a big smallie though:(
G_money reply :
And my fish-on-face is really weird in that picture...I look like a parolee 
blackmax135 reply :
Man when you get ready to sell this boat let me know. Unless you see one like it somewere else
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 2/16/2015 at 10:48 PM, everythingthatswims said:Any fish on that swimbait yet? Nice job on the bass, what sort of temperatures were you working with from the plant?
I've only gotten to fish it twice. I did have a hit on it Friday but it didn't hook up. There's always white bass in the hot water that will swat at anything and I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what it was. Bait looks amazing in the water though, good enough I bought a second one without even catching a fish on the first one . Like Sam said, water was high 50's to low 60's in the warm water discharge.
On 2/17/2015 at 3:05 AM, G_money said:And my fish-on-face is really weird in that picture...I look like a parolee
Yeah, like I said on the water, you never looked real comfortable with a spinning rod in your hands. Having not fished with one in a long time though, that's kind of to be expected. We'll get some big smallies at Melvern once it starts to warm up, great chance to learn how to fish those jerkbaits too. You're really not going to like me later in the year if starting at 7 is early though I've usually been on the water at least a couple hours by then.
On 2/17/2015 at 8:11 AM, blackmax135 said:Man when you get ready to sell this boat let me know. Unless you see one like it somewere else
It could be a really long wait. I'm hoping this boat will be around long enough to give to my son if he decides he likes fishing. I found a really nice one in North Carolina though that I'd considered going to look at when I was on the hunt though.
blackmax135 reply :
On 2/17/2015 at 4:18 PM, Bluebasser86 said:I've only gotten to fish it twice. I did have a hit on it Friday but it didn't hook up. There's always white bass in the hot water that will swat at anything and I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what it was. Bait looks amazing in the water though, good enough I bought a second one without even catching a fish on the first one
Yeah, like I said on the water, you never looked real comfortable with a spinning rod in your hands. Having not fished with one in a long time though, that's kind of to be expected. We'll get some big smallies at Melvern once it starts to warm up, great chance to learn how to fish those jerkbaits too. You're really not going to like me later in the year if starting at 7 is early though
It could be a really long wait. I'm hoping this boat will be around long enough to give to my son if he decides he likes fishing. I found a really nice one in North Carolina though that I'd considered going to look at when I was on the hunt though.
That's a good plan
Catch 22 reply :
Awesome catch and report. I would barter away some serious stuff to be on a trip like that right now.
senile1 reply :
Nice way to break in the boat, Blue. Were you on La Cygne?
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 2/18/2015 at 12:35 AM, senile1 said:Nice way to break in the boat, Blue. Were you on La Cygne?
No, we were at Wolf Creek. La Cygne has been extremely hit or miss this year with them trying to get the new stack online. The plant has been off a lot so the water is cold and a good portion of the lake has been frozen over at least a couple times. They just had the new stack up and running when something broke in the plant and they had to go back offline. I've heard that they had it back up and running as of this week though. I've also heard the new stack is much more efficient which means it uses much less water to cool, which is going to mean much colder water temps even when it's running. Still, I'll take cold, soft water over cold, hard water any day.
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