Ever have one of those days????

[5-Cents]

Deep down inside I knew I should not have gone fishing today. It seems like I never do any good on a Sunday, and to boot most of my more "memorable” (not in a good way) moments happen fishing on Sundays. :shrug:

Alarm goes off at 4 AM. I hit the snooze and sleep a little too late. Great now I am going to be late to meet FishnXTC (Chris) and his girlfriend BC (Sheryl sp?) at the dock. On the way I pick up my coffee cup on the truck and my thumb must have had some kind of seizure because I drop the thing in my lap. No towels or napkins in the truck so I decide to wear it. graemlins/dork.gif

I get to the ramp to meet XTC and BC and I realize that I forgot my camera. I ask Chris if he brought his camera and he said “Hell no, you always bring yours.” Not that it would matter today anyway. :hoboy:

We load all the gear and get the boat in the water. I ask Chris to warm up the kicker so we can get the warm water wash running to defrost the bait for wrapping the Kwikfish. When I get back to the boat and jump in I look down and there is water on the deck of the boat. Hmmmm, is the warm water wash overflowing? NOPE forgot to put the plug in. :shocked: I sprint back to the truck (if any of you have ever met me seeing me sprint is a show all its own :tongue: ) back the trailer down and let about 100 gallons of water drain out of the bilge. The only good thing about this is that the ramp was not busy yet because nobody is out of their minds to get there as early as we did. What the heck I needed to wash out my bilge anyway.

Now we are finally on our way and we get to fishing, and fishing, and fishing and fishing. In case you can’t read between the lines there was very little catching. We decided to change venues. After a while in the water I got a take down (the way things went today it was probably a pike minnow anyway). Just as I start to dash for my rod Chris stands up in front of me and I slammed into him. :hoboy: This collision was akin to a Mac Truck hitting a VW Bug. Chris bounced off and hit the deck hard. I on the other hand did not even spill a drop of the full cup of coffee in my other hand, can you say ricochet??? Needless to say I missed what ever did hit. graemlins/eek13.gif

After the tide quit running we decided to troll, troll, troll and troll some more with the same results… a big fat NOTHING.

After all of this I have taken a solemn oath to never, ever fish on a Sunday again. I am very fortunate to get to fish during the week and I will from now on leave the weekend fish to the weekend fishermen.

Chris and Sheryl I still had a good time. Next time we will put a whoopin on those fish that they will not soon forget. Every once in a while you have to have a day like this to remind yourself that we are not indeed bulletproof like we would like to think we are! Hopefully my next one is not for a long, long time!
:cheers:

[Boedy]

A bad day on the river is still better then a good day at work :grin: as I have been finding out since my return to the ranks of the employed.

[cannonball]

Been there and done that

I can relate

[ZaQ]

Gee, when I called you you sounded like you were in a great mood. Guess I shouldn't have called and rubbed my success in. :tongue: Next time my friend, next time.
Chris, wat happened?

[NorthRiverS]

5,
I too was able to get out fishing today with nothing to show for it. Yes, I saw a good number of fish on the graph right where I had my lure, but still nothing. Even without any luck, I was still mighty glad just to be able to go out fishing today. Beats the alternative. :wink:
NS

[Hogmaster]

Welcome to the world of the weekend warrior, Nickle! :cheers:

Think of it this way. You neither ran out of gas nor lost your net, so all in all I would say it was a pretty good day! :grin:

I won't tell you how we did. At least not on this thread...

:cheers:

[5-Cents]

Gary,

Could it be another episode in the Hogmaster's "As The Impellor Turns" :grin:

Spill the beans I love those stories!

[willametteriveroutlaw]

5 cent I have had one of those days too.
Here it is:
When I was 14 my dad bought our first boat. I spent the whole summer running Skiffs on cook inlet in Alaska and thought I knew it all. So when some friends of ours came down from anchorage I decided to take them silver fishing on the kenai, on a stretch that i had only run 3 times in other guys boats. My dad assuming that the other guys knew how to run a boat intrusted our boat to us. Well they knew less than me. Heres a run down of my maiden voyage on the Kenai.
6:00 Launch Boat
6:05 get back to boat at dock to see 5 inches of water in the back.
6:06 frantically search for the plug
6:10 find pulg and take off to let water drain out of boat.
6:15 Water freezes on deck and 1st mate takes a nasty fall
6:20 Get to spot, only to see it full
6:25 Head farther down stream, into virgin waters (for me)
7:00 Hit gravel bar, lose prop
7:15 finally get new prop on
7:30 Start fishing
8:45 no fish time to move head back upstream
9:00 1st try at anchoring in heavy current
9:03 use new prop to slice boat below me's anchor line
9:20 back to fishing.. Finally
10:00 Time to go no fish up river again
10:30 finally got honey hole we wanted in the morning
11:45 No fish, getting desperate toss bobber and eggs out back of boat.
11:50 go back to spinner fishing
11:55 catch my first... Seagull on a spinner
12:00 Fish and game lady see's both bobber and eggs and moron tossing spinner, nice little ticket
12:30 I have had it head back to ramp
12:32 Run out of gas
12:35 Fish and game lady tows me to ramp downstream to get gas
12:50 Get gas and storm out of launch
12:51 Hit another bar and shear off blade of prop
1:30 limp boat back on to trailer

[5-Cents]

willametteriveroutlaw,

OMG :shocked: :grin: I guess I had a walk in the park, thanks for making feel ok about myself!

[willametteriveroutlaw]

That was one of those days when all you can do is laugh.. It was horrible one of the guys fishing with me was the Head guide investigator for ADF&G. He thought it was funny to throw weights at the fish and game lady while she was writing me the ticket. Its real hard to look pathetic when there are 2 50 year old men splashing the back of the Law and giggling like school girls. Then, the same officer had to tow me to the ramp when I was out of gas. On a good note she called three days later and let me off the hook. 2 props aren't cheap though. I also lost boat privaliages on the boat for a year. Dad would barely let me put it on the trailer. graemlins/berry.gif

[Hogmaster]

Nah, Nick, no such type of story for me today. If I had been aboard your craft today there would have been a story. But it sounds like you told it pretty well yerself!

Me? Nah, I just was too busy catching today. :cool:

[1pump]

Gotta have days like that once in a while. Keeps things in balance, and it appeases the fishing gods. :cool:

[night stocker]

hey 5cents,doesn't sound too awfull bad.i would still go fishing and enjoy myself!any day out fishing is good.i dont get a lot of chances so go on sunday!or anyday for that matter. :cheers: making it happen,living a dream NS

[Nanook]

Hey, count your blessings! At least no "as the impeller turns my anchor rope into mush" material. :tongue:

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Psst...look in your freezer/smoker. :wink:

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