For three years a heart condition and my wife's failing health kept us from using the pontoon. We fished the slips as she could but very few two pounders are caught in the slips at Joe Pool Lake. Now that it has been almost a year since my wife died I am starting to fish with the pontoon again. First I had get it upgraded with some of the newer electronics and fishing gear. But after a three year absence I need to relearn everything over again.