bigscoop
Gold Member
- Jun 4, 2010
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My morning of fishing:
1) Putting pontoon in water at 6am, a piece of padded rail on the trailer comes loose and snaggs the pontoon framing when the pontoon is about half way off the trailer. Had to get in the water and wrestle the pontoon off the trailer.
2) Once on the river, bugs were really bad, forgot bug spray. Got eaten alive for about an hour until the sun came up.
3) Finally arrive at selected fishing spot, saw a school of Redfish working an oyster bar, made my cast, got a huge bird nest that will require re-spooling the entire reel.
4) Grab other rod, make cast, got snagged on the oyster bar as soon as the “weedless” lure hit the water. Lost lure.
5) Decided to sit back and open a soda, take a fresh breath, start the morning over. Got sprayed in face upon opening soda.
6) Had to clean off reading glasses, took them off, spun around to grab towel, hand hit canopy frame, knocked glasses out of hand and into water.
7) Grabbed extra set of reading glasses, cleaned them, apparently with the same hand towel I used to clean up the soda. Need water to clean them….”not a chance in heck!” So I spit on lenses, no clean towel to wipe of glasses. Did the best I could with the wet shirt I was wearing from wrestling with pontoon and trailer earlier.
8 Decide to move to different spot, start the morning over in an area where all the fish possibly haven’t swam away from the noisy and cussing guy in the pontoon.
9) Have I mentioned that I love fishing?
10) Arrive “safely” at new spot, see fish working the flat. Shut off motor and walk to front of boat to put trolling motor down. Loose strap on left sandal now caught in trolling motor frame. Decide to leave sandal there and fish barefoot.
11) Grab rod, forgot that I still needed to tie on a new lure. Can’t find tackle box. Forgot to put tackle box in boat.
12) I was so pissed no problem getting half of my sandal out of trolling motor frame! Finally get the rest of it out, head back to boat dock.
13) Get back to dock, have to get back in water and wrestle boat back on trailer on account of the loose trailer padding.
14) A fishing buddy walks out on dock, says, “man, what a beautiful morning! Do any good?” Yes, he’s still alive.
1) Putting pontoon in water at 6am, a piece of padded rail on the trailer comes loose and snaggs the pontoon framing when the pontoon is about half way off the trailer. Had to get in the water and wrestle the pontoon off the trailer.
2) Once on the river, bugs were really bad, forgot bug spray. Got eaten alive for about an hour until the sun came up.
3) Finally arrive at selected fishing spot, saw a school of Redfish working an oyster bar, made my cast, got a huge bird nest that will require re-spooling the entire reel.
4) Grab other rod, make cast, got snagged on the oyster bar as soon as the “weedless” lure hit the water. Lost lure.
5) Decided to sit back and open a soda, take a fresh breath, start the morning over. Got sprayed in face upon opening soda.
6) Had to clean off reading glasses, took them off, spun around to grab towel, hand hit canopy frame, knocked glasses out of hand and into water.
7) Grabbed extra set of reading glasses, cleaned them, apparently with the same hand towel I used to clean up the soda. Need water to clean them….”not a chance in heck!” So I spit on lenses, no clean towel to wipe of glasses. Did the best I could with the wet shirt I was wearing from wrestling with pontoon and trailer earlier.
8 Decide to move to different spot, start the morning over in an area where all the fish possibly haven’t swam away from the noisy and cussing guy in the pontoon.
9) Have I mentioned that I love fishing?
10) Arrive “safely” at new spot, see fish working the flat. Shut off motor and walk to front of boat to put trolling motor down. Loose strap on left sandal now caught in trolling motor frame. Decide to leave sandal there and fish barefoot.
11) Grab rod, forgot that I still needed to tie on a new lure. Can’t find tackle box. Forgot to put tackle box in boat.
12) I was so pissed no problem getting half of my sandal out of trolling motor frame! Finally get the rest of it out, head back to boat dock.
13) Get back to dock, have to get back in water and wrestle boat back on trailer on account of the loose trailer padding.
14) A fishing buddy walks out on dock, says, “man, what a beautiful morning! Do any good?” Yes, he’s still alive.
