Exorcism of the Gremlins

Well, it's been a week or two or more since the Supreme Avenging Overlord has updated the blog, completely due to the fact that I havent taken the F.U.C.K.ing boat out due to inclement conditions, and other factors, such as the duties around the home front. I took the F.U.C.K.ing command vessel out to Lake Galena two weeks ago, the water had been drawn out to fix the dam last fall, and since the winter has been less than overly precipitous, it hasnt come ven close to it's normal level yet, I'd say it's about 15 feet below normal. Let's just say, it takes a real hardcore fisherman to struggle to put the boat in at launch ramps that are obviously made for higher water levels. And struggle even more to get it loaded onto the trailer after fighting some heavy winds with only a trolling motor. Another note on the trolling motor is to next time get one with a little more balls. The one I have now is the one rated for the boat, but in a headwind, or on the river, it'll be a headache and a slow and scenic ride if you know what I mean. I did capture a small micropterus salmoides, a 17 inch stizostedion vitreum, and a pomoxis nigromaculatus though, and read many large fish on the fishfinder that I'm assuming were morone saxatilis encamped at 32 feet.
Yesterday and today, (04/15 and 04/16) I also ventured out, this time to the Nock, where it was windy yet again. I have to say I don't care much for fishing in the wind, as it is a pain the ass to detect strikes, but my boat handling is improving slowly but surely. Yesterday, I captured 3 micropterus salmoides one of them being a 3.5 lber. It was a really nice morning, foggy to start, few other boats around. After I got home, I decided to head out to catch some of the trout the state has stocked in the Nesh. Going out on opening day is always an adventure, but I avoided the real hordes that show up early in the day. I caught 5 trout, 4 being salmo trutta and one an oncorhynchus mykiss in about an hour and a half, and missed alot more strikes as I was fighting major line twist on my spool, and I was getting extremely annoyed when I couldnt cast where I needed to because of it. Needless to say, that line has come off, and I've respooled with Sufix Elite. Hopefully it works better.
I also went to the Nock today, but all I caught was a bad case of windburn as it was blustery as hell. I just anchored on a protected area off a point, and experimented. Obviously the fish were at Easter dinner somewhere else, as I had one light bite the whole 6 hours I was on the water. I also tested the livewell for the first time, it leaks abit, it will need a bit of caulking, just another one of those pesky gremlins that I'm finding out about as my experience with the boat gets better. I'd also like to lower the bunks abit, for better shallow water launching, and I need to find a solution to the rod storage problem. When I have a fishing partner on the boat, space will be at a premium.