My fishing buddy was so enamored with the Rainbows he trolled up last week, he wanted to go back for more. Ok by me, I'll try for those deep Bass I couldn't get to bite last week. Forecast close to 60°,light wind,partly cloudy.
Reality, maybe hit 54°,light wind, all clouds all day. Found the deep Bass in a couple spots,tried a tube, jig, hard jerkbait, drop shot with a halfshell,yum dinger, ocho, wacky worm, and a zoom monster worm, all fished painstakingly slow due to the 47°water. NADA, not even a sniff! Meanwhile my buddy tried the shallows with no success, so he started trolling. I saw trout feeding on the surface, an since I brought my trout bucket of goodies,I figured what the hey,why not. Threw a Mooselook Wobbler out behind the boat and kicked the trolling motor up to 1.7mph.
Had the first hit 5 minutes later, dropped him at the boat. Note to self :shut trolling motor off when fighting a trout!
Missed one more but brought 4 into the boat, forgot cooler so CPR ed all fish.
Another work buddy,trout fanatic,says Green lures don't work, so when i saw a deep school I threw out a firetiger Berkley derdger crankbait with lots of green on it. Tied the first fish at 1lb 13oz, the others varied from 14oz to 1lb 9oz. By the way, my buddy got skunked.

Thanks YB, I'm probably done,if you can believe the long range forecast.
The beard took a couple more years to grow in LOL.
Back when I had my old Luhrs, I was always looking to move up, and kinda favored "Jersey " style boats. 33Pacemaker, 33or35 EggHarbor, 38 Ocean Super Sport. Mainly because of the beautiful wood interiors, and the fact that they were good on fuel, having a shallower V at the transom. But after going offshore a couple times I learned to appreciate a Deep V in rough water. Bertrams were top dog but the interior design was like my Luhrs, Formica.Vikings and Hatteras were better, and we had one of each in my marina,to compare.
When Cat Harbor came out with the 35 Cabo I read all the writeups and was impressed. The following fall I looked at one at the Norwalk in water show, and was very impressed by the Quality,and especially fit and finish. With like 8 engine options, you could get in under 200k(with gas),or up around 300k with 3208 cats. I could NEVER afford either,but I fell in love anyway. Pretty enough inside, excellent bottom design, built like a tank, and decent on fuel, and easy to fish. Unfortunately those days are gone.....