[PECo]

I finally got my new boat out onto the water. I decided to christen her The Other Woman, Too. She's a 2006 G3 Eagle 165 with a 60 horsepower four stroke Yamaha outboard engine and a 55 pound thrust Minn Kota trolling motor. NWDarkcloud (Bob) and I took her down to East Haddam and launched at the Salmon River Boat Launch ramp. The floating docks have been removed from the ramp, so there's no way that I could have handled her alone. Thanks, Bob! When we got onto the water just before 9:00 am, the conditions were calm. The air temperature stayed in the low to mid 60s. The water temperature ranged from 55 to 58 degrees. There was no wind and the high tide was imminent. The surface of the water was like glass as we headed upriver to the power plant canal:



I had never spent significant time piloting a boat, so everything felt awkward to me, from steering to working the throttle and trimming the engine. Other than what I think is excessive play in the steering, everything worked terrifically. We decided to motor all the way up the canal to the cove at the end. I threw a wacky rigged five inch green pumpkin/red flake Senko, while Bob threw a Perch Rapala Jointed Shad Rap JSR07. I told Bob that I planned to stick with the wacky Senko until I got a sign of life from a fish. Unfortunately, that didn't happen for a couple of hours, when a fish finally picked it up, bent my rod over and bit it off! Sonofab*!@# I immediately switched from my fluoro setup to a braid and wire leader setup. I tried throwing a crankbait and a spinnerbait, but the leaves on the surface of the water made a good cast and retrieve almost impossible. It didn't help that the wind rose out of the south and began blowing all of the leaves that were floating on the surface of the water into the cove. After I began throwing a white three inch curlytail grub on a 1/4 ounce shakeyhead jighead, I finally boated the first fish at 11:15 am:



It was just a short largemouth bass, but it was the first fish boated on The Other Woman, Too, since I got her. Whoo hoo! The bite never picked up, although small fish were rising all around us in the cove. I finally decided to target them and tied on my minnow jig, which is a Silver Pearl 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnow on a round jighead. At 11:45 pm, we heard the approaching sound of twin radial engines and enjoyed a flyover from a World War II era plane:




It didn't take long for the minnow jig to pay off with a few yellow perch, a couple of nice black crappie and a couple of short largemouth bass:








I had to get home early, so we headed out of the canal at 3:15 pm. On the way back to the ramp, I buried the throttle and got the boat up to 40 miles per hour on the speedometer, although I think that the speedo is a little bit optimistic. I'll double check it after I upgrade to a better fish finder with GPS. Getting off of the water was a lot harder than getting onto it. The south wind and outgoing tide made holding the boat off of the ramp really tough. The passing boaters who don't understand what a No Wake Zone is didn't make things any easier. Bob did a great job of controlling the boat while I got the trailer onto the ramp. After I got the winch strap hooked up to the bow, getting the boat onto the trailer went incredibly smoothly. I pushed her back from the ramp and pulled her straight onto the trailer with the strap. We were off of the water by 4:00 pm. I can't wait to get back out onto the water, again.
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[SeaDog1]

Hi Phil,

Congrats on the new boat and you got to try her out before the storm !

That looks like a C-47 WWII era cargo plane that flew over you.

Best regards,
SeaDog1

[NWDarkcloud]

Even though I had a great day out and enjoyed phils new boat a great deal ,unfortunately I covered the back end with a thick coat of skunk sting only takeing 2 strikes all day and missing both of them .I had tryed about everything I have from jigs to spinners to cranks and worms nada .


Phil thanks for lettng me ride the new girl shes a blast ,just suxs seasons so close to parking time
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[Redneckangler]

Went out of there this morning. A few small bass and a pickerel. The pics were tearing up my big pike shiners. Talked to guys on 3-4 other boats. Slow all around. The main river was a steady stream of big boats moving north. The coast is going to get wrecked. LOTS of water pushing up already. Flood tide didn't let go until an hour and a half later than the table.
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[pikePERSUADER1]

Wow, Phil, I'm jealous, Nice Boat!!! I bet you get close to 40mph out of that boat, my buddies 17.5 basstracker does 30 with a old merc 50hp! Congrats on the new boat, that will open your fishing options BIG TIME!!! -Dan [url] http://www.loweboats.com/hunting-boats/frontier-1546/ This is what I've had my eyes on![/url]

[DirtyDawg10]

Nice report! Glad you were able to get out on her and do some fishing.

[angry john]

happy you got a chance to try her out. Must of been killing you to see her in the driveway. I would be out much later in the season under power than i a yak, but the bite will slow to a crawl very soon. I have not done good at all lately, but there are still some good spots as i see some good reports here and there.

[hila2006]

Hey Phil congrats on the rig!!!!!! We pulled ours out for the season on Sunday, very depressed about that. We'll have to do a trip next year Phil, very happy for you, VERY NICE.

[bass tracker]

Hey Phil, nice looking boat! I was out that way Sunday and caught a few nice bass. Hope the weather stays in the 50's for awhile longer, get a few more trips out on the water.

[Redneckangler]

If it's not frozen, keep fishing! The fish will be there.
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[rmflint]

I was going to say a DC-3, but after googleing the C-47 I realized they are the same plane. They were just different models. Like I believe the DC-3 dropped paratroopers.
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