I've been anxious to try out my new little boat I had bought ( like I needed another one right!) so saw a window of opportunity this afternoon when work cleared up sort of early and was home by 4 pm. Recently purchased a little 4 stroke 4 hp Yamaha for it so wanted to see how it would perform on the water so hooked her up and ran down to Angle lake to give it a spin!

I had heard they recently planted about Angle with about 4000 catchables, so of course brought along some gear to put behind the boat while I figured things out! Got it down the launch and it glided off the trailer with ease so far so good! Tied it up to the new dock they have put in down there which makes it nicer when you are by yourself- after only a few pulls she fired up nicely and soon I was heading out into the lake to start my troll.

Had my fishing buddy fish finder set up with 2 rod holders so put back my first line with no weight 75 feet behind the boat with the same combo I did well with on lake WA which was the purple kokebow with RMT purple flasher tipped with corn. The other rod I tied on a "fishing with Gary" orange looking set up with spinner and flasher (forgot the name) tipped with pink gulp maggots.

Of course earlier when I went by the lake it was like glass but now there was a breeze blowing and a bit of chop on the water but nothing to tough to handle. Soon I got a nice hit on the purple hoochie and half way to the boat came unbuttoned! Darn but was fun seeing it jump back and pulling line! Not too long had another and this one jumped all the way to the boat before getting into the net! Boy this little guys are scrappy and fun to catch on light gear!

Did some figure eights back and forth across the lake and had 2 or 3 more drive-by bites. I was marking most fish up high which was expected and water temp at 49 degrees. Suddenly the rod with the FWG set up gets hammered and this fish makes some runs and jumps before finally getting getting close to the boat and in the net! Man these pack some punch for their size as the first was 10" and this one was almost 13" respectively!

Soon darker clouds were moving in and wind picking up more so decided to call it a night around 6:30 and now was the challenge on getting back on the trailer for the first time! Went smoothly so all in all a very successful first outing for Tin Cup JR! Still need to make some adjustments but I think by the time I take it over to E. WA it will be a perfect little boat for Moses lake and Deep lake while I am over there for 11 days of fishing, fishing and more fishing in May!!

See you on the water!!