New Sled's First Trip. 5/26/12

Went up to elk grove in the morning to meet up with my friend Mike to pick up the boat and get all the electrical work that needs to be done on my truck for the trailer lights to work right. Mike also wanted to hook me up with a few accessories for the boat and he gave me all of this.

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A 52lb thrust trolling motor, a seat, two seat mounts, a trolling plate, a tackle box, an extended motor handle, and some rod holders. Man what a great friend!

Got everything squared away and took off to meet up with Garrett at Wimpy's.

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On the water around 1200 and we wanted to try a bit of trolling for some Stripers. I was still learning my motor at this point in the day though and we couldn't keep our plugs in the water for more then 15 seconds without getting some kind of weed stuck on our lures, so we gave that up pretty fast. Went to a few area's I've been to before to try for some green carp and to get that skunk off of the boat.

5 mins into it Garrett draws first blood with a small bass on a crankbait.

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First fish on the new boat!!!

We try a few sloughs around the meadow area and were sticking small bass left and right. Most on Senko's, but Garrett found a few bites on a small spinnerbait.

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It started getting too easy Garrett had to do his "pro fishing pose"

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After a while though Garrett finally found a good bite that put some bendo on his rod.

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Finally a respectable photoworthy fish.

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Somewhere close to 3lbs or so.

After all of that bassing action Garrett and I were dieing to get some stripes on the boat. We really wanted to work the main river more, but these guys were everywhere!

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and with them were all kind of jet skies, rafts, kayakes, other boats, basically way to much boat traffic for any good fishing to get in around them. We found some nice current breaks though we tried tossing swimbaits all through it. Worked it long and hard for one diaper striper.

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I did noticed a 21ft deep hole in the stretch too with a small school of fish in it, I tried jigging it for maybe one hit.

After that we decided to call it a good and successful day there. Lots of dinks today, but lots of fun. Can't wait to get back out and try to get on some bigger fish.

Till then guys
Mark