A Great Weekend...NOT!
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:57 pm
Well....on Saturday the wife and I decided to take our boat out. We get to the ramp at Shellpoint and get the boat in the water, evrythings going well so far. We idle out past the no wake zone and open it up. Hmmm, the boat won't plane and it doesn't sound quite right...it's only pulling 2800 RPM wide open. Mess around with it and still can't figure out the problem. Decide to head back in. We get to the boat ramp and my wife drops me off to get the trailer (she wanted to run the boat onto the trailer for the first time). She backs off the dock and starts yelling at me. She can't get it out of reverse. So I have her drift back to the dock and I try it with no luck. Put in forward...it goes backward. Take out of gear and rev the engine (cold start) it goes in reverse. I finally get it back on the trailer and take it directly to Advantage. Somehow I see a new linkage or maybe a new motor in my future. 
Go home.
Sunday- Get up and go out fishing with my friend Mark in his skiff. He's catching fish left and right. Gerald is lucky to pull in a ladyfish! I finally hook up with something using a live shrimp under a CT. JERK...well there goes the CT! I reel in the line and the end of it's mangled pretty good, it must of gotten cut on a gill plate or something. Start fishing top water with very little luck bringing in a keeper. 20 minutes later Mark yells,'hey...isn't that you're CT?'. Sure enough about 100 yards away is my CT trolling on through the water
. We decide to take a break from fishing and try to get the CT back. After about 25 minutes of chasing it around and trying to snag it there's a big swirl behind it and it goes down hard. Now I'm thinking there it goes for good. But a few seconds later it pops up. We go over and get it and whatever was originally on it is gone (probably in a shark)! So I get my CT back and finally put a trout in the ice chest 
. So final tally for the weekend was numerous small or trash fish, 1 keeper, no boat for a while and a lot of frustration! I hope everyone had better luck than I did. When I got home I had planned to cut some stuff with a chain saw and the wife told me maybe I'd better rethink that with the way my weekend had gone (I went ahead and did it anyway and did not lose any parts) 
Go home.Sunday- Get up and go out fishing with my friend Mark in his skiff. He's catching fish left and right. Gerald is lucky to pull in a ladyfish! I finally hook up with something using a live shrimp under a CT. JERK...well there goes the CT! I reel in the line and the end of it's mangled pretty good, it must of gotten cut on a gill plate or something. Start fishing top water with very little luck bringing in a keeper. 20 minutes later Mark yells,'hey...isn't that you're CT?'. Sure enough about 100 yards away is my CT trolling on through the water
. We decide to take a break from fishing and try to get the CT back. After about 25 minutes of chasing it around and trying to snag it there's a big swirl behind it and it goes down hard. Now I'm thinking there it goes for good. But a few seconds later it pops up. We go over and get it and whatever was originally on it is gone (probably in a shark)! So I get my CT back and finally put a trout in the ice chest . So final tally for the weekend was numerous small or trash fish, 1 keeper, no boat for a while and a lot of frustration! I hope everyone had better luck than I did. When I got home I had planned to cut some stuff with a chain saw and the wife told me maybe I'd better rethink that with the way my weekend had gone (I went ahead and did it anyway and did not lose any parts)