Back on the Water!
My boat is out of commission.
Had the unfortunate experience of meeting some underwater Canadian Shield after stupidly not checking the map before attempting to power up and go through a fairly narrow area between two islands. In my defense, I had a "guide" and former resort operator with me that day that said it was "all clear, i go through there all the time wide open." Hmmmmm....a hard grinding on top of the rock as I was still planing out had him wondering "how have I never hit that in the last 20 years."
Sooooo the mechanic at the time said there was nothing visibility wrong besides the prop (which I had repaired of course) and skeg (which I left a little bit banged up) and there was nothing he could really do to check/test for a problem. "Go ahead and run it, it might make it a few months or a year if there is gonna be a problem, you'll find out eventually" was the advice.
Eventually came Monday evening. I had a friend/guest out fishing for a couple hours and had trouble shifting into forward. Thought nothing too much other than I better go see Henry this week because it had did that twice the week before and then didn't do it when I was out for a few hours Sunday evenings.
So now we're coming in on the trusty 9.9 kicker and doing 5.5 MPH, which would get us back to camp somewhere near 10pm because we were up in Miles. Yup, that was my major bonehead move of the day. Should have been fishing locally and then could have fished our way home no problem.
I didn't have too much concern because the weather was fine and it was still only 8pm or so. However, 30 mins into running the kicker full throttle, the warning light comes on and it starts shaking and coughing and spitting to beat the band. I had maybe 2 hours on this little engine since I bought it because it was for emergencies only, right?
Ok, so now I'm a bit worried, but do have the cell phone and was able to get through to someone after getting away from some high rock face. My good buddy and fishing friend "The Captain" answered the call and came out to give us a tow.
After a quick inspection at the local motor doctor, it was deterimined that a referral to a specialist will be required. A call to the insurance office was made. An appointment for an adjuster/appraiser is in the works.
I'm not sure when Pooh will be back on the water.
All of this during some of the best action of the season. UGH!!
So that's the story of Pooh taking a dump. Thanks for the Drees Crew from Carroll, IA for the suggestion that maybe all Pooh needed was some honey and everything would be ok. It appeares a little more serious than that at the moment.
I made need to put a honey pot in the dockhouse if the insurance people don't co-operate.
The moral of this story should be clear:
ALWAYS CHECK YOUR HYDROGRAPHIC MAP!! Regardless of who says "all clear."
The area in question showed the depth in that "saddle" as 2 foot. I would never have attempted such a maneuver with that knowledge.
Well maybe I should trying fishing that rock, I might at least end up with a muskie spot of it, "eh"?
You might think the day could not have gone much further south, but you would be wrong. On the way back towards home with the kicker, we stopped to fish an area that usually had some action if there were fish in the weeds. We had fished half the weed bed when someone came in and started where we did...10 mins later they are fighting a fish...we overhead them proclaim 45 inches in their excitement. We had two fish up in that bed and 5 total follows but could not get anything to find hooks.
Then someone put a squeeze play on us by coming up the shoreline from the oppposite end and makig us fish "seconds" through the rest of the area. We didn't get any fish to eat in the already fished section.Yup, 3 boats fishing one 100 yard section of shoreline. If I had warp capability, i would have been outta there, but I was down to the 9.9 and couldn't exactly make a statement by roaring out of the area at 5 MPH could I?
Maybe I should go dust off my "Walleye Sheriff" Badge and fish out of a resort boat instead.
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thanks, Nic.
