Fishing Report for Week Ending 9/27/97
by Capt. Butch Rickey
What a week. I took the first part of the week off, and had the later part of the week booked up. We had great tides, and I was all geared up to put my parties on some great fishing. As anyone who follows the weather here knows, Mother Nature had a different idea.
I had spent another day at Smith Marine, and Craig had installed a new technology rechargable drycell battery in my boat. It is a 24 volt pack that only weighs about 70 pounds, and is supposed to take a full recharge in about three hours. The weight savings over the gelcell batteries I have been using is phenominal. I was anxious to test them out. We had also installed my freshly rebuilt Mach prop. I had asked them to put as much cup in the prop as was possible, hoping to put an end to the prop ventilation problem inherent in tunnel-hull boats. But, the test would have to wait.
Mother Nature sent us a weather system that might as well have been a tropical storm for all the raining it did. Some areas of west coast Florida got as much as 13 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Needless to say, the rest of my work week was rained out.
I thought that since there was no fishing to report on this week, I would post a new article to the site, instead. It's everything you always wanted to know about tackle maintenance, but were afraid to ask. Click here to link to the story now.
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