wasilvers
Well-known member
One of my favorite reads is the stupid human tricks posted on iboats. I knew one day I'd have my own story to tell...
As I was driving to the lake tonight, I turned to my wife and told her, I think it's my day for a stupid human trick - I can feel it. This comes after nearly forgetting ALL the fishing poles, not being able to find my car keys, almost hooking the batteries up backwards, and managing to attach the trailer with everything except putting it on the ball. I knew that today was going to be my day.
Got to the lake and remembered that I needed the plug first thing, but since we still weren't in the water- I was ok. Started to backup the trailer, and then remembered the transom straps. Because the wheels weren't wet, I don't count this - no harm no foul. Remembered to attach the bow line and get her launched no problem. Parked the car and sat in the boat's driver seat for a minute doing my mental checklist. All seemed well and she started right up. We were a little over an hour into our fishing trip when it started to sprinkle. It was windy, rainy, and the fish wern't biting too good. We pulled lines in, unbaited hooks, got lifevests on, etc. I started the engine and began slow, then began to pick up speed as she planed out. Then it really started to rain heavy, but only on my boat.... If you've done it before, you know what happened....
I left the troller down - It was funny watching the kids try to dodge the 'raindrops', two were buried in my wife's arms, the other had a seat cuscion on her head.
Fortunatly, All was well, the motor still works good, and we even trailered the boat on the first try :roll:
As I was driving to the lake tonight, I turned to my wife and told her, I think it's my day for a stupid human trick - I can feel it. This comes after nearly forgetting ALL the fishing poles, not being able to find my car keys, almost hooking the batteries up backwards, and managing to attach the trailer with everything except putting it on the ball. I knew that today was going to be my day.
Got to the lake and remembered that I needed the plug first thing, but since we still weren't in the water- I was ok. Started to backup the trailer, and then remembered the transom straps. Because the wheels weren't wet, I don't count this - no harm no foul. Remembered to attach the bow line and get her launched no problem. Parked the car and sat in the boat's driver seat for a minute doing my mental checklist. All seemed well and she started right up. We were a little over an hour into our fishing trip when it started to sprinkle. It was windy, rainy, and the fish wern't biting too good. We pulled lines in, unbaited hooks, got lifevests on, etc. I started the engine and began slow, then began to pick up speed as she planed out. Then it really started to rain heavy, but only on my boat.... If you've done it before, you know what happened....
I left the troller down - It was funny watching the kids try to dodge the 'raindrops', two were buried in my wife's arms, the other had a seat cuscion on her head.
Fortunatly, All was well, the motor still works good, and we even trailered the boat on the first try :roll: