As usual, I was up before 3 this morning. Wanting to go fishing. Joe wanted to sleep in....at 7 he finally got up. We headed to the water....The day started off ok. I quickly caught a short one but it was a bass The wind started picking up and we moved to one of my favorite spots......Of course the wind changed....we had whitecaps busting the side of the boat shortly thereafter. Ok, time to move again.....As I pulled the rope to raise the trolling motor, snap, it broke...I can't print what I said.....let's just say it's one of those 4 letter words I rarely say. The boat was headed straight to the rocks and the bank. Not a soul in sight......of course.....Yesterday about that time we had run into 520 dvx and his wife but not today. Joe hasn't a clue what to do to help. I have to run the big motor to keep us off the bank. At this time Joe is hanging over the front end of the boat. Loosening the knob to the trolling motor. As I am saying "careful",..... plop, into the water it goes.....again I won't repeat what I was saying....

It's about now, I'm thinking about what happened to Riskkid with his new boat and trolling motor. Ok, don't go fast enough to bend the shaft........I have to get to a bank with calmer water to see what I can do....I head over to the closest protected bank. About 1/4 mile or so........SLOWLY. Waves are busting over the front of the boat..........we finally make it close to the bank. All the while I've been having Joe dig out what few tools and gadgets I could of that might be needed. When we were in 3-4 ft of water I trim the motor up and dig out the anchor. Joe is looking at me with the weirdest look on his face as I bail out of the boat and take the anchor to the bank....Over the side he goes......This trolling motor is only about 3 mo. old. With a little mook ingenuity we manage to get the spring released and the motor raised. I retie the pull rope and it works...Now we are both wet to our chests and I'm laughing like mad. Didn't really see any need to cry at this point. We get back in the boat and he says, well so much for fishing......Not so fast buddy! I finally have you out here, we're staying......

I head over to a calmer bank to fish. I get the trolling motor lowered and it seems fine except it wants to swivel on it's on. Great, I'll have to keep my foot on it constantly. Ok I can do this but not in wet shorts........So I stand up and promptly shuck my shorts and undies. The look on his face was priceless! I hung my shorts on the back running light. Hey, with wind like we had they'd dry quickly....... Thank goodness I keep a towel in the boat. First time I've been fising in a skirt. I kept waiting to the water patrol to show up.......I knew the headlines in the local paper would read Half naked female Mook arrested........

Here's a few pics of the weekend........None from after the shucking!!!! All that and I only had 1 bass to show for it......But hey, memories...........

One more thing.........Muddy, where the heck is my shirt?

Oh man,....when you said "pictures", I quickly scrolled down,lmao ;D  ;D  ;D

Great story!!  

I think the headline would have read "Naked hairless squirrel found floating with bored mook" ;D

You know Deb.....I think this is all Muddy's fault....with his great example of the use of trolling motors we are all losing it.....it's A TROLLING MOTOR CURSE....its gonna eventually hit all us Mooks!!  

Dammitgirl!  I just carry a hand towel with me.  Wouldn't have been much help 8-)!  I'm thinkin' about movin' to KY Lake ;D.

Dan

I agree with riskkid.  Somehow muddy is behind this.

Ever since the "harder I push ,the righter I go," we have all had tm problems.

ok course most of us don't solve them buy doing a striptease, but hey i ain't heard no complaints yet.

Actually all the boating problems stem back to RICk  of Rick the D#%$ BOAT RENTALS

You know Deb.....I think this is all Muddy's fault....with his great example of the use of trolling motors we are all losing it.....it's A TROLLING MOTOR CURSE....its gonna eventually hit all us Mooks!!

AHH!!!! MR YANKEE: exactly who was that who tried to put that boat into it's mooring slip doing 35mph? Was I on that boat? Maybe Long Mike can shed a little light on this!1 What are you Popye the ffreakin Sailor all of a sudden

Ok guys here's the lowdown...........

russ, I was laughing so hard after reading that, I had wet pants again

riskkid and avid.....absolutely had to be MUDDY's fault.  I was thinkin bout that while it was all going on.......

Dan, don't move, hopefully that was a once in a lifetime performance ;D

It was still another day on the water...........priceless

And you talk about out fishing Joe! I would have had a hard time concentrating too  

That's totally unfair  

You know Deb.....I think this is all Muddy's fault....with his great example of the use of trolling motors we are all losing it.....it's A TROLLING MOTOR CURSE....its gonna eventually hit all us Mooks!!

AHH!!!! MR YANKEE: exactly who was that who tried to put that boat into it's mooring slip doing 35mph? Was I on that boat? Maybe Long Mike can shed a little light on this!1 What are you Popye the ffreakin Sailor all of a sudden

Popeye the Freaking Sailor...THAT's hilarious!  ;D

You know Deb.....I think this is all Muddy's fault....with his great example of the use of trolling motors we are all losing it.....it's A TROLLING MOTOR CURSE....its gonna eventually hit all us Mooks!!  

AHH!!!! MR YANKEE: exactly who was that who tried to put that boat into it's mooring slip doing 35mph? Was I on that boat? Maybe Long Mike can shed a little light on this!1 What are you Popye the ffreakin Sailor all of a sudden

Actually I am Popeye the freakin sailor all of a sudden!!!!  

Riskkid? 35 mph into a boat slip?  I know nothing.  I saw nothing.  I heard no smashing of timbers and bending of metal.  

Here's a few pics of the weekend........None from after the shucking!!!!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww SHUCKS .......................

aww same here rather quickly also   ;D ;D ;D ;D no shucking dangnabbit   ;D ;D

Oh man,....when you said "pictures", I quickly scrolled down,lmao ;D ;D ;D

Great story!!

I think the headline would have read "Naked hairless squirrel found floating with bored mook" ;D