Definitely didn’t go as planned!

Put in at the ramp and the motor wouldn’t start for some reason. Had to use the trolling motor to get back to get Austin. Jiggled battery and all connections were tight. Unscrewed and rescrewed wing nuts. Motor fired up. Blast off at 630, supposedly. Motor won’t fire again. Shook battery box and fires up so off we go.

Acting funny so figure well go to the bridge and set there. 645-10ish we sat there tight lining minnows, jigs, casting, everything we had in the boat. Not a single fish and not a single bite. Had a million minnows under out lights, and literally SAW crappie busting through the schools, but never once touched our baits. Started shallow and worked our way deep. Nothing. Austin was cold and we and wanted to try somewhere else so I though go up the creek and get out if the wind. Motor fires this time and we head up there. Passed Ed and got to the cove on the right. Saw a ton of fish on the depth finder so stopped there and put lines out. Something. Nothing.

Started to troll towards another spot to get the handle on my new TM, and suddenly EVERYTHING on the boat goes dark. I figured we’ve drained a fully charged battery with this new TM. Sit there mad and realize the interior LEDs are still on. We still have power! Turn everything beckon and try again. By now its 1130, were both fed up, cold, wet, tired and still not a single fish. Decide to call it quits early and head home. Especially since Austin lives an hour northeast of Murfreesboro! Turn the key…….and nothing happens.

Ended up having to put my starting cables on my deep cycle just to get the motor started and back to the ramp.

Got back to the ramp at midnight as the bass guys were taking out.

Hope everyone else had a better evening.

Ps when we got home I put my charger to both batteries to test what they were at and the starting was at 98 and the TM was at 78! Hmmmmm