Hi everyone,

My day of fishing yesterday was a total bust….. I haven’t fished with my boat in a few months. Planning a trip to the Keys, wife’s birthday and family get together has taken a lot of time from fishing. I did bank and dock fishing, just not the boat. Well, the day before, I pre-rigged poles checked my gear, put line conditioner, started the boat….. You know all the pre-check stuff, I thought. Went bed not with sugar plums dancing in my head, but with me casting in just the right spot, netting bass, all that good stuff.

Morning of, it just daylight I head out, mile from the dock, boat quits. Anything over an idle, it stalls. After monkeying around with the boat for a while. I decide I’m going to fishing, heading back to my dock, with the trolling motor. I drop TM in the water, head for the shore line, as I get closer. I notice I’m slowing down then not moving. As I raise trolling motor something catches my watch, pulls it off the arm, it flips for the water. It‘s canvas band the Velcro on. I manage to grab it just as it hits the water, with me almost going in too.

Back to the trolling motor problem…. Dead battery…. So much for my pre-check. After that, I call it…. It just wasn’t meant to be.

I got the outboard started finally…. Idle back to my dock…. It would have been a nice day to fish. Slight over cast, was supposed to rain that evening so that usually starts the bite.

Anyway I enjoyed the morning on my way slow trip home, drank my ice tea, thanked my little boat for getting me home. I’ll start figuring out what all is wrong today.

I hate those days. It just makes you feel like going back home and going straight back to bed.

In 1981 I remember a song by John Denver " some days are diamonds some days are stone ".

There's a ring of truth there.

Hoping the next time out is diamonds.

Just shows that the people who say a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work, haven't ever really had a bad day of fishing. It's super frustrating when you're looking forward to it being a good time and then it's like nothing can go right, at least I expect work to suck. Sorry your day didn't go as planned.

Every time you go fishing, miss a bite, lose a big one, or get skunked, you're not wasting time.

You're just on a different cast.

What feels like a bad day on the water is actually protecting you from something you can't see.

Even if you don't catch what you wanted, you will always end up where you're meant to be.

Trust the process.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Yep my day was a bummer but it wasn’t the worst day I’ve ever had.

I going to change fuel, clean filters, and drain carb. Charge the batteries. The trolling battery is old, like 4 years old, it doesn’t owe me anything if it’s ka-poot.

Things like this just happen

2 hours ago, Lottabass said:

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

So true….

Almost loosing my watch and going over board, made me think of @papajoe222 with his inflatable not working. I was wearing mine but I going to change the bobbin anyway.

Glad you got your outboard started. Idling back is waayy better than padding. !

Any landing you walk away from is a good one.

3 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

Glad you got your outboard started. Idling back is waayy better than padding. !

I glad too…. I have went and got friends of mine and towed them back, so might have had to call in a payback haha.

Sounds like a win to me, you saved the watch and you didn’t go in the water!