Made it to Erie this week

 Well, I made it to Erie this week on Monday. It was supposed to be 4 mph offshore breeze with 15 mph gusts. By the time I got there in the wee hours of the morning it felt like it was 15 offshore with 20 mile an hour gusts. It only got worse as the day went on 

why is the pic always more tame than the actual weather was?

I did however manage to catch a decent walleye to begin with 

and then another keeper and a short so I again caught two walleye at Erie this year. 

I still need to put so much more walleye in my freezer. I'm going to go next week and probably the week after and the week after that and probably into hunting season. I don't know.. 

My bank fishing chronicles are still putting fish on the board. I only caught a couple fish this week, I only fished for two days. I had a couple drive-bys and missed another one but I was able to get two nice smallmouth.

 

 Well, I'll be going to Erie next week, the weather's supposed to be good according to the weatherman 👎.  All next week's should to be clear and calm so I'm going to make it out at least one of those days.I wish I could figure out a way to stay there for for a night. I'd probably do that but haven't been able to figure that one out yet. I don't like leaving my stuff out if I had a place, like a garage that I can put my boat in I would absolutely do that.

Have a good week and I'll talk to ya later.

It is HOT

 Well, I started out my week with a little bank fishing, while I was fine tuning my motor. 

 

Tuesday I went out and the only pictureable fish I caught ended up back in the lake before I could get a snap. 

By Wednesday I had my boat motor fixed and was back on the water, albeit I didn't go too far from home. I got it out and ran it, fine tuned it a little more and think I'm ok for a while.

And I caught fish...

I can catch rock bass like Corey....😂

It takes a really good fisherman to catch fish that small

First time out on the boat since vacation felt amazing. Next week it's time to put some walleye in the freezer.

This morning I got out and caught a couple.....

Not too bad for a couple hours casting from shore.

The bank fishing chronicles continue.....

 I fished every day this week for at least a couple hours, I walked over everyday but one. 

My neighbor gave me a kayak when he and his wife got a new one, so on Wednesday I tried it out for the first time.

Today I caught nothing.. zippo... nada.. zilch... I didn't even get a bump. Oh well I've been doing pretty good from shore so I really can't be upset about one day.

 

So if you recall I cleaned the carbs last week and ordered some gaskets. They did show up, but when I took the carbs to my mechanic he suggested to order a couple parts to replace on my carbs. So I got on the computer and ordered them and they should be showing up by Saturday. Which means I should be able to get the carbs put back together Sunday and test out the motor on Monday and maybe... just maybe go fishing next week.

🙏

Need a fix..... who's holding?

 Turns out my lake was.

Since my boat motor is torn apart and doesn't look to be back together for another week, I had to get out and do some fishing. So, I grabbed a rod and a couple lures and walked down to the lake and did some shore fishing.

 

I would get up have my coffee and head out to the lake, usually I would leave around 6 and get back whenever. I think this is something I'm going to keep doing.

Here's the pics

That's 2 days worth of fish, they aren't the biggest fish I've caught, but man was it fun.

Motor update- I got the water pump kit and replaced that and got the lower unit put back together. Next I tore apart the carbs and cleaned them up really good 

This is the state of my motor right now.

I'm currently waiting for carb gaskets and a laser gun to test heat. I don't want to start the motor without being able to tell if it's over heating or not. 

So, hopefully next week I will at least have it put back together and test it.

Mid season boat repair

 Not really the time I want the boat to be down, but sometimes you have no choice. Last time I put the boat away and knew I had to pull it apart and replace the impeller. It wasn't expressing water like it should and I thought it would be better to fix it than burn up the motor.

What I didn't know was that someone was in there before me, and cost me a little more money.

So after finding the water pump housing cracked I got online and ordered another one. And since I'm probably going to be down next week also I thought I might as well take the carbs off and clean them up really good. I haven't done that yet, that will be next week, but I know I will have to get some new parts for them also. So I'll update next week with the summer boat break down, and keep your fingers crossed I'll be on the water after next week.