Last week I fished a small fairly un-pressured pond with another member here (baboosicbass08). Things went really well. He caught his first bass on a spinnerbait and I came home with pictures of the 6lber I caught. It was a good day. Of course that was last week.

          We tried again yesterday. He met me at my place. We drove over to where I keep my boat, hooked the boat up, and took off for the lake which was 20 minutes away. About 10 minutes down the road my car flashes a warning message saying "voltage low". Well that's strange.

          Another minute or so later, going down a big hill, my ABS warning comes on, then my Airbag warning light, then some triangle with a squiggly line in it warning. Basically my dashboard looks like a light-brite. At the bottom of this hill there is an old abandoned gas station. We coast into there just off the road. My brakes still work, thankfully. My gas pedal on the other hand does not. So once we stop we're stopped.

        So far not the best fishing day. We call AAA to come tow the car. And amazingly they are there in about 10 minutes. But they won't take a boat. I need someone with a hitch. I call my in-laws, no luck. I call my Dad, he doesn't have a truck with a hitch, but his neighbor has an old blazer that he can borrow.

        I get a call back in a few minutes to inform me that he can't get the blazer started. Wonderful. I call everyone I know and most of them are in work. Finally my father-in-law calls back. He's about an hour away but he'll come get us.

          So now that we know the boat is getting picked up, what do we do in the middle of nowhere for an hour? We of course try and find a place to fish. Less then a quarter mile down the road we see this swamp/pond on the edge of the road. So Dave and I head down there. The only problem is that I don't have locking storage in my boat and can't see it from where we would be fishing. So we have to take everything with us. 9 Rods, 3 giant tackleboxes, and everything else that I don't want taken while we go fishing.

         We get to the swamp and fish, while making sure not to cast overhead. There are power lines here of course. I can just imagine what the people who drove by every once and awhile thought. Seeing 2 guys basically fishing a puddle on the side of the road with enough gear to fill a small tackle shop. They probably thought we new something special about this place. In my imagination I see someone going home and grabbing there rods to come fish our "magic spot". I mean if you have that many rods and that much tackle you must know what you are doing right? ;D

           Eventually I get my hands on a truck, and make it home. No fish. No real fishing either. An overall wasted day. $700 dollars in repairs on my car. But at least I have a place I can rant about it.

I sincerely hope that everyone else has a better week on the water then I did.

Peace

-Chuck

ya i hate when that stuff happens....i had my maintenance required light flashing which means i need an oil change well i stay on top of those and i had just did it a couple weeks earlier so i was freaking out. well i call the dealer and they said that if i changed the oil myself i needed to reset it. so i look online and cant find how to reset it and my supervisor shows up. he says well this is how i do it in my honda and sure enought it worked. but ya i hate when them lights start showing up.

Well at least you got some bait in the water. Last time i went out got a hole in my boat but I got a couple hours fishing in and while it sucked having to go through all the repair garbage, it seemed to be some consolation that I got to fish.

What a bummer.

But yes, I had a great week until the rains and wind hit Richmond on Thursday.

No locks on your boat's compartments?  

You may want to install some locks on those compartments in the future.

The Fishing Gods will treat you better on your next trip.  They saved you from some "unknown catastrophe" this past trip so they will make it up to you.  

Haha yes it was definately an interesting trip. You forgot one of the funnier parts how we must have looked like idiots to the people driving by before the car got towed and we were in the abandoned parking lot with the boat still hitched to the car and i was learning to use my baitcaster by casting into the dirt area lol. And im pretty sure you're right, i wouldn't doubt it if people try that spot after seeing us fish it with all that tackle lol. Oh well, hopefully the next trip will bring us some good luck. Good luck with the car,

Dave