Well we went to practice for next weekend’s THSBA tournament on Twok and we broke the boat. Need some advise . This was my very first time on this lake and even though the wind was not that strong it still whipped this lake into a frenzy resulting in us hitting a wave hard enough to tear the Ram gimbal mounted Humminbird SI unit completely off the boat. I’ve been wanting to get rid of that Ram mount and move that HB SI unit to the dash, mounting it with the factory HB bracket to the top of a new dash panel that will let me get rid of the 5 inch HB unit the boat came with. Looking for a blank to cover up the holes the Ram mount will leave. I’ve been to Ram’s website and they appear not to have anything that would just cover up the holes. Any ideas?

Maybe for covering holes:
https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/ram-mounts-cable-manager-riser-plate?

Beware, TWok is like that. It doesn't take much of a wind out of the South or North to get it really rolling out there. If you have a 20+ MPH day, you'll have to stick to some of the protected coves!

I went to Lowes and bought stainless steel 1/4" x 20 counter sunk bolts, fender washers, and lock nuts and bolted it back together for the time being. It has no choice but to stay put now but I think I'd still like to move that unit to the console dash and get rid of that gimbal mount. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. May have to roll with the one I've gotten so far.

You can either just mount a ram base on it and leave it unused, or build a plate to use as a cover, or get a fiberglass guy to fill the holes professionally.

ETA - Twok is notorious for getting really bad with only moderate winds from N or S. It's the closest lake to me and I don't even go there because with my little 17' Triton it can get dangerous quickly.

I intentionally did not go yesterday due to the wind forecast.
Twok gets really bad, really quick.

That’s an absolute truth. I grew up fishing that lake before Fork. Fish it enough and you will feel its wrath. Good grief, back when there wasn’t instant weather radar on your phone, you best not tempt the Big Girl. She has a high body count. That an her open spill way put a few stories in the Rains County Leader. Ha.

We fished in the Hawk area and at the highway bridges you could see some severe damage to the road bed where this lake had been hammering.
I also learned how familiar you have to be with this lake from this experience as well. We put in at the state park boat ramp and when we left out to head up to the Hawk area I had it in my head that I'd be able to see that boat ramp when I came back down the west side of the lake. Since we didn't have the GPS available I tried to come back just by memory. It didn't take long for me to figure out I was as lost as a goose in a hail storm without the fish finder GPS. We drove by it three or four times and couldn't see it because it is kind of back in a smaller cove. We originally left the ramp headed for the east end of the dam and that is when my HB SI unit got broken off so that kind of added to us getting disoriented because we wound up making a big circle to get back to safer water and to go to Hawk. If we hadn't had our cell phones with us we might have run around until we ran out of gas and we left with about 30 gallons of fuel. At one point it almost felt like we were lost in the woods. Once we pulled up the maps on our phones we could tell where we needed to be and drove right to the ramp.

Buy the navigation chip for Tawakoni from Tom Mayne. It's worth every penny.

+1 on Mark’s statement!

OK we wrapped up Twok yesterday and got a total goose egg, doing follow up to figure out what we did wrong. We fished practice last Saturday and the tournament yesterday and I don't think my guys got a single bite. The areas we fished were mostly rocky areas along the shores transitioning into deeper water and around boat ramps where they were exposed to full sun on the west side of the lake. 57 degree water was the warmest temp I come across. We went to the back of one of the southern coves in the Hawk area and fished shallow and also along the north shore as well. Everything I'd seen said they'd be shallow no matter what the conditions or on rocks taking in the heat. I'm not the greatest fisherman by any stretch of the imagination but I almost never go to a lake and get skunked, especially on back to back trips. Just trying to sort this out because I know we will be going back. I started to rig up C-rigs and go deep off points and maybe we should have........