Full Moon Fever Redux - 6/8/17

[NJSquatch]

Finally got the boat back in time for the weekly zombie adventure. The engine now runs like a top. Never heard of a bent reed block?

Loaded up the Sasquatch Militia around 7:30pm and made our way to the grounds. Pulled up to the first spot and I hook up with a spunky 18" hybrid on the first cast! Was really praying this wasn't going to be a the first cast curse trip!

Turns out it wasn't! Caught this beautiful PB tying 26" Walleye a few minutes later just as the sun was going down.

http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_D_Walleye.JPG

We had a couple of blowups and misses until dark. Decided to make a move to a new spot and Chrisper and JDTrout put on a clinic hooking up with a couple of nice fish.

http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_J_Hybrid.JPG http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_C_Walleye.JPG http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_J_Walleye.JPG

The cloud cover started to pull away and the full moon had the lake lit up like daytime.

We made our way down to another typically hot spot and had herring and blowups all around us but no love. Gave it a frustrating :mad: hour and decided to leave the active fish and try some new ground.

Made the right call as I immediately hooked up with an 19" walleye on top water. Chrisper had an 18" walleye and JDTrout followed up with a nice lmb.

http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_J_LMB.JPG

Was about to call it and Chrisper hooks into something BIG. After a couple of drag pulling runs he lands his new PB hybrid at 25 1/8"!

http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_C_Hybrid.JPG

Finished the trip with 6 walleye, 5 hybrids, smb, lmb, and a pickerel.
JDTrout gets the multi-species award.


All Fish Were RELEASED For Others To Enjoy!


As I was buttoning up the boat at 2:30 am I saw this guy stumbling around mumbling something about Brexfist?

http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/LordBucketHead.JPG

Fish Holding Fish!

[JDTuna]

Great night out on the water. The weather even cooperated as well!

[Chrisper4694]

#fishholdingfish #forcefeedthem Sleep is stupid anyway!

[AndyS]

Great fish !! Congrats on the PB's all around !

[Esox Luciano]

Looks like you fellaz had great time!! Congrats on the new PB's guys. And pics to match!

[Jigman13]

Nice fish guys. Was out Friday nite with Skunk. Moon was crazy big and bright. Had some action but had to really work for it. Nice pbs!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Wow!!! That's some good catching fellas! Beautiful fish all around and congrats on tying the PB Eye Squatch. Congrats to Chris for catching a PB Brid! Congrats Tuna Trout just because I like you.............maybe!!!

Good action across the board, that's what it's about! Damn!!! I haven't been out for the nite bite since last year! Sheeeeeesh, time flies!!!:D

[icebadger]

outstanding the nite shift gittin-er-done very nice fish to all. that is one hell of a striper that chris has very nice. who or what was that in the black outfit? darth buckethead?

[henro]

Awesome job fellas!

[Mikey topaz]

Nice work guys as always, i have a feeling that jd trout will become jd tuna very soon😉

Hey squatch how was that motor running with the bent reed? Did it start up?

[Skunk City]

Man, that salesman from Ardent just won't leave you guys alone huh? :p

[NJSquatch]

who or what was that in the black outfit? darth buckethead?

Nice guess...Lord Buckethead....it is a goof from the john oliver show on HBO...

he ran for the British PM...apparently anyone can run and all candidate get to be on the stage when they announce the winner...Elmo also ran...i guess it is funnier to me because my company was acquired by a British company and they are so tightly wound yet there political process is a joke....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckethead

[NJSquatch]

Hey squatch how was that motor running with the bent reed? Did it start up?

motor is a 2000 90HP 2 Stroke Merc....ever since i bought the boat (5 years ago) it has been a pia to start...sometimes it would crank right over other times it would take fiddling with the choke, primary ball and throttle....it would never idle smoothly(coughing and sputtering) and would occasionally stall out while idling...it would also hesitate and stutter under acceleration....being new to the boating game I just dismissed all this as being a cranky 2 stroke....

what got me to get it checked out was that the lower carb (it has 3) was dumping fuel into the airbox which was then leaking past the airbox gasket into the lower cowling...replacing the gasket would contain the fuel for a while.....the mechanic initially thought the carb was clogged but then diagnosed it as a bent reed.....reading up on the web it seems that you can diagnose with the motor running there will be air being pushed out of the carb throat that you can feel with your hand and you would experience my symptoms....

happy to report she now runs like a top...starts easy, idles smoothly, no sputtering, stuttering, or hesitation and most importantly no fuel in the airbox!