Fair Haven April 6th - Shakedown Run

[Billy V]

Today Yankee Troller, Jay and I spent the morning prepping the boat for the season...electronics installed, downriggers mounted, probes repaired, rods, reels and tackle put on the boat, etc. We finally got things ready to go shortly before noon and by 12:30 we had fish slime on the floor for the first time of the year. Jay boated a nice fat brown that came on a firetiger KA-BOOM shiner fished off of a planer board. We found that once the wind began to die down that the color went out of the water and the fishing slowed considerably. We spent a couple of hours running the boat thru her paces and for the most part we're ready to go.

Be careful if you're heading out of Fair Haven as there's a log buried on the west side of the channel just before you get the the chute that you definitely don't want to hit in the dark on your way out. It's sticking up about 6" out of the water.

A couple of pics from today:

I'm SO glad that the season is finally here!

[Priority1]

GJ Bill. Mine will be in the water sometime this week. I tested mine in the yard Saturday, and I'm ready to go.

Did that football have a hitchhiker? Looks like a lamprey scar.

[GLF]

Looks like you picked up right where you left of last season......whackin fish!

[caznik]

Good job Billy V....

Cazzzzzzzzzzzz:)

[Billy V]

Thanks guys. Nope, no hitchhiker on that brown. We noticed that the fish we took yesterday were definitely larger than the fish we took at this time last year...hopefully that's true for all of the browns to come. We've all been working hard to get guys to put the little browns back the past few years and hopefully the fish will be larger this year as a result. Needless to say whackin' an 8lb. brown as the first fish of the year sure felt good!