A buddy and I took off and spent a long weekend fishing down there. The grass fishing wasn’t up to par just yet, but we still had a good time. My SC gage says I burned 7 gallons of fuel over three days. Sometimes I wonder why I ever wanted a big motor? I guess it’s all relative. The Ultrex simply makes fishing sooooo much nicer that words don’t do it justice. We had wind everyday with temps dropping 20+ degrees over the weekend.
Running big water in the wind is the RT’s Achilles Heel. I covered a lot of water the first day looking, you will get wet. You have to go slow. There was at least two big tournaments on the lake so it was common to see a big glitter sled go cruising by.
The guy that was with me knows less than nothing about boats. He was drooling all over a Ranger 521 in a parking lot. In the room he asked how much one of those cost? I looked a couple up and watched him stroke out at the 70,000 price tag. He has a PhD in Economics...the ensuing conversation was entertaining.
He told me when it’s time it needed to float and have a reliable motor. All the rest could be added on. All I could say was different strokes. It can be entertaining to take someone out who really is new to bass fishing. The stuff they come up to ask about makes you think.
The best fishing of the weekend came when a huge school of big white bass came up around us....whooohooo was that a blast!