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EC 3/9 Mar 10, 2025 11:49 am #40442

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Headed out of EC ......launched at about 8:30- i avoid the early rush- I was boat # 35 that day.......#1 launched at 3:30am!
We wanted to do a combo trip perch and coho .......decided to run coho first since we were right there....... ran a little out from the wall starting from first light to a little past the end. We did get our 3 man limit - Brad thin fish- red/black squiggles....firetiger.....orange/red chevron, and rapala J-9 orange did the damage. Went about 15/21......
We got our first 10 at a moderate pace, next 3 were a grind..... then we picked up and headed to the Gary flats for perch..... only 10 boats there, 5 left in first 10 minutes......... Basically- we missed the hot perch bite. Decided to finish up our last 2 coho in front of Gary light.
I should have went for perch first, then finished up coho fishing at Pastrick's, that was my mistake, but hard to complain about getting limits in early March.
Btw the coho were all nice sized for this early, only one throwback. My kid even bagged a Steelhead for the last fish of the day. Some nice early year areial acrobatics!
Shakedown on the boat also went great, no Gremlins, sure nice being on the water again.

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EC 3/9 Mar 10, 2025 1:57 pm #40443

Fish head Away Platinum Member Posts: 509 Thank you received: 227	Very nice, great job, awesome first trip. Thanks for the report. The following user(s) said Thank You: Ltrain
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EC 3/9 Mar 10, 2025 3:16 pm #40444

walleye13 Offline Junior Member Posts: 10 Thank you received: 3	How is EC charging to launch/park this year for Indiana residents? The following user(s) said Thank You: jrk fishin
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EC 3/9 Mar 10, 2025 3:40 pm #40445

bob Away Moderator Posts: 2779 Thank you received: 746	Glad you had a good shakedown, and caught some fish too. Sea Ray 290 Amberjack Kelliann 4 The following user(s) said Thank You: Ltrain
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EC 3/9 Mar 10, 2025 6:30 pm #40447

Dirty Offline Administrator Posts: 5247 Thank you received: 1743	Great Day! Boatless! The following user(s) said Thank You: Ltrain
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EC 3/9 Mar 10, 2025 9:42 pm #40448

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walleye13 wrote:
How is EC charging to launch/park this year for Indiana residents?

Right now it's 25 bucks......they are supposed to be putting in an automated system soon- They still have someone at the gate as of Sunday .I'm going to guess that means cashless but I'm not sure
When they do that I will also believe the first 20 are free will be going by the wayside too...... but that's just a guess, I will ask when i launch there again.