[Starkfishes]

Picked up my new 21 FX in Kilgore last Friday and couldn't wait to hit the water.  The "pirates" had me thinking that Falcon may not have been such a good idea so a buddy and I headed to Ivie.  It was tough.  20-25 mph winds for two days resulted in a lot of talk about Falcon.  We did catch fish and I managed to catch one good 8.3 fishing a bluff wall (just to get out of the wind) on a C-Rig W/R Rattlesnake.

We finally decided that we weren't going to allow five guys in a boat with a 40hp motor to keep us off of the lake we love so we headed from Ivie to Falcon.  The wind was not much better there but the fishing was.  No real giants but we had a great time.  Here are a few pictures of our better fish.

Bobby caught this one just over 7 on a C-Rig on the end of a long point.

Two minutes later he caught this one just over 8 and we thought we were on to something (turns out we were wrong).

While not a giant, I did manage to catch my first Falcon topwater fish so I had a quick picture snapped.

The fishing was just average but I LOVE the new Skeeter.  That 250 Yamaha SHO is everything they said it was.  Here's a few pictures of the new toy.

 

[518SVX]

Good report. Sharp looking boat! Glad to hear the SHO ran well. I know everyone is anxious to take their first ride in one. Could probably sell rides for $5

 

[Travisheals]

Very nice!

 

[carson]

Great looking boat!! Sounds like an awesome trip to break that bad boy in. Congrats on the fish and boat!

 

[mike2010]

Congrats on both, I'll just have to look at the boat from here so as not to slobber on it. ;D ;D

 

[chandar]

Nice fish! WOW!! Beautiful boat!! I hate you... Just kidding

 

[bassfantastic]

Sweet ride

Good looking fish, sounds like a great way to break in the new boat.

Jim

 

[Matt Warren]

Nice boat. Glad ya'll had a safe and productive trip to falcon

 

[basstrack]

Nice ride and nice trip report. Congrats!

 

[topwaterdog]

DUDE!!!!! SWEET DAY!! nice fish,and boat!!

 

[rattoomaniac]

Very nice. I bet you could out run the pirates in that boat. Did you get a chance to open it up or was the water too rough? Reports say you should get up into the 70's with the FX and SHO.

 

[Starkfishes]

The water was too rough to get her wide open and I still don't have the 10 break-in hours on the SHO just yet. I did get to 5400 RPM and was running 67 MPH. I don't think 70 will be any problem. I typically like to run around 5,000 RPM and that equates to about 60 MPH in this boat. Perfect!

 

[5-20]

Man... nice fish and boat!!! You've been getting on 'em pretty well this year!!!

 

[turbobassman]

Nice report, great fish, sweet new ride. Nuf said.

 

[Dez]

Looking good