Seasons Changing and it's Striped Bass time?

Pete Derosario sent a great report about his James river fishing adventure.  Informed me that he might be on the water on Sept. 25 and do bait between Stubbs and Dillards about 9 AM.  Sounds good to me as I'm not an early riser.  Hopefully I can be in the area and Pete can share some of his baits and knowledge about boating stripers.  Of course, I won't run off and do my own thing if I can get on the water close to Pete.  Last trip, I went my own way and Pete got into stripers and I got the skunk!

Wanted to get on the water on Friday Sept 18, but it didn't happen.  Rather, went to Green Top and talked to Steve Lane about my chart chips.  The fishing hot spots is a relic of the mammoth age. The Lake Insight was just a bit less a relic.  So, the Navionics + was the cat's meow and it was updated to current for the East coast waters I usually fish.  Strange that I thought the Fish 'n Chips was a local eatery.  Now under stand it is related to the scope of the chart being displayed.  Comment was about 1.2 K is a limit.  If the screen goes white, toggle the fish' chips off.

Tried to put the leaning post on the bow of the Sea Pro, but I wasn't strong enough to get the existing seat lifted out.  Think need some lube!  Maybe I need more muscles.  Tried more WD-40, no luck. 

 

OK, got the swivel seat out and the new leaning post installed.  OK for just a hand hold to keep my balance on the deck, but too tall for a seat.

 

 

 

Got the two bank charger installed on Mel's deck boat.  Hasn't reached float after 24 hours.  Maybe the batteries are low electrolyte.  Might be a similar situation with the Sea Pro batteries.  So difficult to check the fluid level.  OK, now well past 24 hours and the unit says "ready to fish".

Got my Coast Guard stuff out of the electronics box.  Flares expired in June 2015.  Arial flares expire in 2018.  Got the boat registration and the salt water registration in a bag with extra remote auto pilot batteries.  Oh, maybe this stuff belongs in the joytbkiptopekecows.blogspot.com epic?

Also have to think about a spot light sonar for the Riptide trolling motor.  Bill says it's nonsense to have the sonar aft and toss from the bow.  A guess as to where the baits are?  Now that I have a leaning post that is practical up front, the SPS might be practical.  

Now have to think about the cast net interference caused by the rod holders.  It's typical for the net to drag on the rail as it opens and hits the water.  The lead line catches and ruins the toss.  I may take the rod holders off the rail.  This is only for guests that cast net for baits.