6-5 & 6 fishing

Finally got my boat wet after a "long" camper remodel, boat maintenance and pandemic delays. Felt good to get the boat out! Started Friday West of Catawba/Mouse a few miles and had marks but only a few shorts to show for it after 1/2 hour, so moved up to Starve island reef. Set up and trolled North of the reef and it was on. Finished up in under a hour. All on #1 Dipseys, settings/feet back were 0/35', 1.5/45', 3.5/63'. Caught 15 on spoons, 3 on meat. Speed 2.2 -2.5. Largest eye was 25", caught 5 shorts here. No particular spoon, but anything pink backed seemed to be working well, but everything was catching. Saturday, little slower, same program took under 2 hours for 12, all on spoons, same area, 6 shorts. Both days when done, before we could get the 6 lines in, the other rods were firing off, so released them quickly. There were a slew of boats fishing From Scott Point Shoal - American Eagle Shoal - Kellys both days.

A great couple of days on the lake!