Got in line about 20 minutes before opening on Monday...got everything rigged and ready...put the boat in the water...and the key start didn't work. After a couple of tries at fixing it, I figured out it would at least pull start (advantage of having just a 25 horse motor on a tin boat)...the meter wasn't working either...so I decided I'd try to go find some boils anyways...checked some places that have worked lately for topwater, but nobody home...started looking in other spots, and pretty quickly saw some popping in the back of a cove...nobody else there...got a couple in the boat before another boat came in...we shared a nice boil and pretty soon I had a few more in the well...when they back went down. I got a few more on a spoon, then another on a fluke. They came back up, and I had another nice hookup on topwater, and it felt heavy, but the fish had no speed at all...you guessed it, a 4 lb. LMB...it acted like it was paralyzed until I got it out of the water...by 8 they were done boiling in that cove, and I wasn't about to troll u-rigs in a lake with quickly dropping water levels without a meter...cruised around the lake looking for more boils, but it was over for now...headed for the ramp at 10 with my 8 schoolies.
The fuse appears good, the batteries are at 12.7 volts...this is gonna be fun...