Got home from a tournament and started backing down the driveway. All of a sudden the boat stopped and I gave it some gas and it raised up like it was on something. Ended up backing over my generator I had pulled out to clean up and tore the transducer off of the back of my boat. Now I'm out a 600 dollar generator and a 240 dollar transducer. Believe it or not the wife wasn't too upset with me. She just told me to buy a new transducer and told me things happen. Bottom line? Don't be stupid and leave things out like me. I was in a hurry to get all my gear rigged up before dark last night that I forgot to put the generator away and it costed me. SMH

Expensive mistake but I bet you won't make it again in the future.

Good luck with the replacement(s).

Just now, gim said:

Expensive mistake but I bet you won't make it again in the future.

Good luck with the replacement(s).

Yes sir. Hind sight is 20/20 and at least I didn't hurt the transom.

The real question, how’d you place in the tournament?

Igloo coolers are surprisingly durable.

Don't ask me how I know this.

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

The real question, how’d you place in the tournament?

I call it a tournament but it was more of a "festival" This was my first outing with this charity and they basically just paired us with a vet and we took them out on the water for your basic fun fishing. Now on to how we did. We started on the main lake points and found nothing so we switched after about 20 minutes and went to one of two bridges in the back of a creek. Caught a bunch of smalls . There were two bridges separated by a spit of land in the creek so we stopped on the point of the spit as we went to the other bridge and got onto a monster school of spotted bass chasing herring. we ended up staying there and following that school around catching fish from 1.5 to 2.5 pounds. Ended up putting 20 or so in the boat for the 3 hours we were out there. After, they fed us lunch of BBQ and gave away raffle prizes. I won a flashlight.

Things happen. Atleast no one got hurt. Glad ya had fun in the tournament. I got to the ramp Saturday morning in the dark and forgot to hook my launch line to the trailer. Backed in and the one time the boat didn’t need a nudge to get off the trailer I look in the mirror at it floating away jumped out and run up to my waiting jeans and shoes to grab it lol. Phone flew out of my sweater pocket. 5 mins hunting on the water for it finally found it. Caught two fish tho haha. Things happen.

It’s from experience I can tell you how many miles you can drive with a 50 foot extension cord before it wears down to the height of your transom.

13 hours ago, IYAOYAS said:

Yes sir. Hind sight is 20/20 and at least I didn't hurt the transom.

Well, if you had literal "hind sight" you wouldn't have run over the generator! 😁

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

46 minutes ago, Kayak Koz said:

Well, if you had literal "hind sight" you wouldn't have run over the generator! 😁

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

His vision was blocked by the seat he was in.

Got the new transducer from the UPS today. Installed it immediately and went to the lake. 40 fish later I believe everything is ok.

Catching fish makes everything better.