Thread: horseshoe?

Well it was an eventful trip for us to say the least. We had 7 guys for our annual fishing trip heading down to fish Thurs-Sunday.

Last week my right front u-joint decided to crap out on my dodge 4x4. I borrowed my dads "work" truck to haul the boat, charged the a/c up, replaced the sway bar bushings since they were shot and got ready to go. The day before we were leaving the a/c went out again, and it started squealing and sounded terrible. Looks like the idler pully is shot. No time to replace that, so I asked my buddy to drive instead.

We headed down to our horseshoe rental house on thursday at 4am. We got two miles from the rental house and BAM, the truck just died in mid travel on 131. We somehow were able to coast into the parking lot at the St Mary church on 131. So its 5:15AM, pitch black dark, and we are SOL. We checked everything out and decided the fuel pump was shot. Finally about 6:30 (after 30 other people passed us by) a nice guy stopped and helped. We loaded the boat to his truck and he dropped us at the rental house. We had no way to launch the boat, so we fished off the dock until about 2 when others showed up.

Finally got to fish Thurs afternoon and decided to try to bream first. They were hitting great over around happy jack with crickets. We caught about 50 nice gills between the 2 of us and about 10 cats as well.

Friday we slept in after staying up to late, and finally hit it around 11, back to the bream hole. Caught 10-12 nice gills and I landed a 6 pound cat on my ultralight with 4lb test line, that was fun. The plan was to shoot the docks that afternoon, but about 3pm the wind and thunder started rolling in and we decided to go back and wait it out. Good move there. Tied the boats to the dock (no slips just a long pier), and man did it get ROUGH! Short story is, it was pounding the boats, they were literally coming out of the water and taking on water from the swells. It got so dang rough it ripped a cleat off the bass tracker from being tied to the dock. It was banging the motor and trolling motors and we decided we had to get them off the water. Somehow I got them on the trailer after about 10 attempts with each boat. If any of yall were there around 4pm or later on friday, you know what it was like. Never seen the lake like that.

The wind never let up and we didnt even put the boats in the water saturday. We had fought that mess enough and the water was still white capping, just said heck with it. It just seemed doomed for us from the start.

Better luck next year Doh