I forgot

 With this week going and no fishing, I just plain forgot to write a blog. So here it goes just short and sweet. Monday I did my shopping, Tuesday had the hvac guy over to fix my ac and rattle canned  a cover for my wheeler. Wednesday I rattled canned my blind and mowed. Thursday relaxed and got ready for work. See rather non eventful, next week I gotta pack for the trip, gonna try to keep it to 1 bag.😂🤣😂

Broke down and hanging it up for the season

 Well, my luck gave out this week forcing me into an early fishing retirement. 

Myself and a buddy made to Erie at sunrise, we were the only truck in the parking lot (that should've been a clue). This was only my 3rd trip to Erie this year so I was going to be fishing memories. I gave 0 consideration to the fact that Erie has had a NE blow for the past 3 days. Long story short, we fished for 11 hours boated a couple nice walleye (21") and a couple not so good but box fillers non the less. We ended up with 5 walleye (terrible) and a decent perch that we kept. 

Here's were it took a downturn, as if the fishing wasn't bad enough. To add insult to injury one of my reels wouldn't retrieve line, the handle would turn but the spool wouldn't turn. The bad part was I didn't realize it until I had the lure out 157' and had to thumb over thumb the line back in on the spool to get my lure back.

 Oddly enough this is the second reel that has broke like that this year, the other was my frogging reel that I've had for so long I can't remember when I got it.

The second breakage and most catastrophic was the trim stopped working on my big motor. This meant the skeg was only inches from the pavement and there is no way I would get out of the parking lot without breaking off the lower unit let alone driving home. So after breaking the boat down and getting everything put away we started to figure out the best way to get the motor to raise. The only way we could do it was to take off the trim motor and manually turn the trim up. It really was easier than it sounds however it will cost me a new trim motor because we destroyed the old one, which we thought was no good anyway. We weren't sure if it was a bad solenoid or the trim motor so more than likely I'll be buying both of them.

Anyway with so little left of my season and with not wanting to spend money 'til after my next vacation. It looks like I'll be winterizing and getting the boat ready for storage. 

I am kinda happy I'm stopping early because I really do have alot to get ready for vacation and hunting this year so this should give me the time I need to do all that.... stupid fishing.

Yeah sorry no pics we didn't get home 'til 11:30 the I still had to clean the fish... long day.

Back up and running

 After finding out a couple weeks ago I needed a new starter for the big motor, I immediately had one ordered. Only for it to show up last week and be the wrong one. Well, I got the wrong one sent back and rolled the dice on another one. 

The new one got here this week and looked to be the right one. I put it on the engine today and hooray it was the right one. I got a lot done in the last couple weeks while  I was broke down, and am ready to get back on the water.

Just wonderin?

How is it that beans are one of the best low carb foods, but you see so many obese Mexicans.

With rice being one of the worse, but you don't see many fat Chinamen.

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