While a warming trend is beginning, conditions still are not as pleasant as when temperatures get closer to 70. Anglers who have fished the Texas Gulf Coast very long know that this is a time of year when attention should be given to boats and fishing equipment.
It will not be long before we see more comfortable temperatures, and when that occurs, just about everyone wants to go to the water. Boaters often run into unpleasant surprises when their engines act up or fail to start.
Most of those problems could have been diagnosed and prevented by an early-season check-up by a marine mechanic. January is an ideal time to take your rig in for a spring check-up. Most dealers and mechanics are not swamped with business as is the case in the spring.
If you wait much later in the year to take your boat in, the odds are that the wait time will be much higher than it is today.
Several years ago I visited with Mickey Grove of Mickey's Marine in La Marque about the most common problems they see in outboard motors at the beginning of boating season.
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