If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.....

 Who else remembers that Hee-Haw skit??? Gloom, Despair and Agony on me.....

Before we get into what happened fishing, lets turn the clock back to Sunday when I got home from work. I had a decent day at work and was looking forward to a good day fishing on Monday, which was the day the weather was most cooperative with. Well as soon as I got into my house I knew something was amiss. It was a little hotter and muggier than it should of been. After a very little bit of sleuthing I found out my A/C fan wasn't turning and the top was fire hot. So, here I was 4pm on Sunday with no A/C and the only good news was I was going fishing Monday. With Monday and Tuesday looking to be the hottest couple days of the year I figured I would still be able to survive. 

Sunday night wasn't too bad, I turned the blower on my furnace to suck up the cooler air in the basement to keep the air cooler. I woke up at 2:30 got ready and headed off to go to Erie. Made it there by daylight, set up the boat, launched and attempted to start my big motor.... notice I said attempted. Yep that's right my big motor didn't want to start, I thought that might happened and I already resigned myself to just using the kicker to get out and troll all day. 

The kicker started right up I put it in forward and went to the steering wheel to steer with the big motor. This is the first time I've used the kicker to power the boat and steer inside the harbor. Needless to say it doesn't turn like the big motor and I was heading straight towards the dock. I freaked out went back grabbed the throttle arm of the kicker and turned it manually. As the boat started to turn I kept seeing the back get closer and closer to the dock.... dammit I hit the dock with the side of the boat. No damage except for my pride, as I motored out of the "harbor" I looked back to see one of the old guys standing on shore was just watching me in amazement. 

Well I thought, if that's the worse thing that happens today.....

Once again I fished from sun up until almost sun down and caught......

6 gaspergoo's

file pic

and one short walleye..... all day?..... yes all day....

Did I mention it was hot??? like melt the rubber off my tennis hot??? Yes that hot, it was miserable out there. I ran through many lures and only managed one small walleye. I did have a couple fish that hit and got off that I kinda thought were walleye's. And oh yeah, I almost forgot, when I was trolling in and only a block and a half from the launch I had a rod fire in 23' of  water and I immediately thought it was a goo. But then it started fighting like a walleye, I wasn't sure it was a walleye until it got to the back of the boat. Where I saw it was at least a 22" walleye, 

the pic in my head when I saw it was a walleye

so as calm and in the moment as I could, while acting like I've been here before I grabbed the net and ...... promptly  knocked the fish off with the net and hooked the lure in the net.....😱😢😩😢😱😭😭.

After that all I could do was laugh, so I laughed all the way to the launch, loaded my boat, and headed to the house.

Hunting starts on the first of Sept for dove and geese..... That has to go better doesn't it????

By the way fishing done for the year, I'm going to clean the boat out and set it up on marketplace. After I get the big motor tuned.

 New set of problems for next year.... hopefully.