Ok so I had one of those days, this weekend that you stop and question yourself am I having fun yet. So it all started this past weekend morning at 6am started for my friends house about 10 mins away with my Nitro in tow. The goal was to pick him up and head to a little lake in Mass. that we havent fished  at all but heard some decent reports about. Im half way to his house and go over allot of bumps in the road and low and behold I hear a clanking and a bang. I look in my rear view and didnt see anything so I keep going. Then I notice when Im going over a narrow bridge that one of my trailer lights is dangling by its wires off of my boat trailer. Well I was nearly 1 minute from my friends house so I decided to keep on going, and fix the problem when I got there. I pull to the end of his driveway inspect the situation. Well looks like the nuts on the light housings came loose and off she went. Weird thing is that the bolts for the lights were still in the slots I put them they didnt fall out. Well my friend had some spare nuts and bolts from a trailer light repair job he did on his trailer so we mounted the light and he began to tighten up the light. He cranks it down nice and tight until I hear the nice sound of plastic breaking and know that he has just broken the mounting slots on the back of the light housing. I look at him and just say "Forget it, dont worry about it".

Off we go to the lake its about a 40 min ride to where we are headed. Two exits away from getting off the highway I hear a car honking from behind me just in time to see my life jacket doing its best Wiley Coyote impression to hang on but eventually fly out of the boat. Great now Im done 1 life vest, Friend says why dont we turn around and snag it. I look at him and say "Its a 3 lane highway, Im not running in the middle of traffic for a $20 life vest".

We reach the lake put the boat in the shallowest launch I have ever seen. I was in my truck and I was probably a good 10-15ft from shore before my boat floated. We start fishing its still somewhat early so fairly windy, wind blown banks with topwaters and spinnerbaits a no brainer. Well we scored I think every fish in the lake in the 10-15in size range. We threw every thing I could think of and came away with nothing but dinks. We come in 8hrs later and notice that I parked the trailer on a decking screw and it went flat. tear my truck apart getting the jack and wrench, switch the tires for the spare. I think to myself I do this for fun and entertainment right?  I must be into self torture.

Im trying to forget the day talking about where on our next trip we are going. Back on the highway we are almost at his exit up comes a State Trooper behind me. I have the CC on doing 66mph think to myself hrmmm Im fine. Sure enough the lights go on I start to pull to the side I give my friend a look like "I dont need this $h!t". So up walks the State Trooper hand him the registrations and lic.

Looks at me "What happened to your Lic plate?"

"For what? I answer.

"Your boat trailer has no Lic plate"

So it appears that the clanging I heard when my trailer light fell off wasnt the light it was actually my Lic plate bouncing off the road as I drove away. Great I thought. I explain to the Trooper what happened he saw my registration called it in. He gave me a warning about the Lic plate and told me to get it resolved ASAP. I was on my way home, thinking I need to find a hobby to relieve the stresses of fishing. Anyway just goes to show you you never know what kind of day lies in front of you good or bad. I didnt go SKUNKED and that should count for something.

Sorry but I laughed because I have had days comparable just not with fishing.

Hope things are better the next time out.

Better to laugh than flip out I always say.

Man,

I'm surprised you went to the trouble of making this post and reliving the day.

I guess this winter when its -20 degrees and you're snowed in for the duration you

can go back and read your "old post," realizing that even when things seemed bad,

they can still get worse!

Great post!

8-)