Deb and I have been running hard in the heat, and headed to the Houseboat a few days to play. I reloaded a few fishing reels, caught a bunch of fish, and played on the beaches with a friend. I'm getting closer to having a working ham radio station up and running on the boat.
Here's a pic of the High Sierra motorized antenna on the houseboat. It allows operation on ham bands 80 through 6 meters by adjusting resonance via motorized drive to change physical length and inductance of the loading coil.
Working on repairing baits, new batteries in the fish scale, and new line on a few of the reels...
It started getting a little nasty on Friday evening.
I caught the 4 fish above on this deep dive bait, standing on the dock. This bait works about 17' to 20' down. It cranks down fast, rises slow...
The next group above were caught on Saturday morning, about 7am to 9:30 am. The last bait consistently picked up blue cats...we switched back to the deep diver previously shown.
Next, Laura came up and we headed to the beach to play for the day.
Afterwards, we headed back to the houseboat...
Debbie picked up a nice bass as we rolled back into the marina cove ..
Next, we got up on Sunday morning to do a bit of fishing...
Debbie's catch on Sunday was the best of the weekend, at 2lb 10oz.
Sunday eve, we cleaned up the boat and closed it up, took showers, and headed to George's in Henderson for a nice dinner.
Debbie had a few days off work, so we headed to Kerr Lake for a little R&R. When we arrived, the May flies were out in full force. After we cleaned it all up, we got the pontoon boat ready, set the fishing gear up, and got ready for Tuesday morning.
Tuesday, we hit the water about 7am. From 7am to about 9:30, we caught 31 fish...20 white perch, 6 stripers, and 5 large mouth bass. What a great morning of fishing!!!
Those may flies were EVERYWHERE!
Bait balls were hanging down around 10 feet or so, and lots of others were feeding!
Back at the houseboat, I had a little maintenance to do. The pull switch had failed on the bathroom exhaust fan. I found one in my shop and was able to modify the housing to fit it in.
Finished and running!
The audio level on our TV in the sitting area was too low, so I brought a speaker pod to give it a boost. I brought a couple of cables to cut and splice together to make the connection.
Up and running!
Debbie was rolling in a bass she caught....
A summer storm popped up and dropped 1-1/2" of rain...
Deb fixed shrimp Alfredo for dinner. Yum!!
This was the last catch of the day... 2lb 12 Oz bass. We caught 33 fish today: 21 White Perch, 6 Striped Bass (Stripers), and 6 Largemouth Bass.
This last two vids are of the night cruise and the roll back to the houseboat. What a great day, more coming tomorrow!
Wednesday... We got up and hit the lake a little before 7am. We fished a bit, caught 3 stripers, and a couple of white perch. Out friend Laura arrived, we picked her up at the dock, and resumed fishing.
Laura caught this on a 5" soft plastic worm and a lead head EWH.
We headed back for breakfast around 9:30ish. After breakfast, we packed up and headed for Pink Hill Beach.
After a full day at the beach, we headed back to the houseboat. Laura had to be home by 6, and we were tired and hungry. Along the way, we spotted large bait balls and feeding fish down around 20' on the Garmin, and couldn't resist. We changed bait to some 20' divers, and Laura picked up this nice 2lb 8oz largemouth. Debbie hung one, but it got off at the boat.
We got up on Thursday morning, to get a little fishing in before heading back home. Here's a few pics...
Big ole' Black Crappie!
2lb 9oz bass...
After breakfast, we put up a few July 4th decorations...
