Pre Thanks

this is a quick shout out to Ez and pre thank you . The folks going out on the pontoon later with us are desperate to learn how to ketch crappie .
Thank you so much for letting me invite them , that dad and his son are about to drive me nuts with the excitement that has come over them .
I met them once at a bank spot and showed them how to ketch a few and for the last year or so the dad has begged me to show them more of it .
I sent them to a bank spot back in the spring and they had a good time there but to be sure he is always asking if he can bring his son and go again with me .
hopefully the fish cooperate and again thank you for your generosity , not many folks left in this world that are cut out of that cloth my friend :cheers2

Hey EZ just save the thanks and recycle it next time , sorry about the motor problems and for sure stay AWAY from the guy with coronavirus 2 slips from your boat slip !

I'm sorry I had to cancel. Please give my apoligies to them and tell them we will definately do it as soon as it is safe and my boat engine has been checked out. I suspect the oil pump may be the cause of the leak and don't want to run the motor until I am sure.

That individual and his family are not coming to the slips now. Not only is he sick but his three young daugthers also have it. He telephoned some of his frineds on the dock and they told everybody else.

I'm more concerned about those who were around him last week and don't know if they caught it or not from him. So I've decided to stay away from the slips for the next two weeks as it is not possible not to meet people on the walkways. if i do go it will be during the middle of the day when everybody is at work and I won't be staying long if I do go at all. I feel sad for all those who deny this virus exists, getting themselves, their families and their friends sick from their stupidity.

I need to repair my trailer where the "nice" person stole the lights and license plate holder from it before I can take my pontoon in for it's 300 hour service and have them find and repair the oil leak. But that will need to wait for a couple of weeks now since the trailer is kept at the marina storage.

So I will not be doing any fishing over the next couple of weeks, maybe a month or longer. :(

EZ sorry on the no fishing.
I really enjoy your posts.


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maybe we can H to fix up your trailer lights , i will ask him next week , is the trailer where the other big boat is ?

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Originally Posted by Redge

EZ sorry on the no fishing.
I really enjoy your posts.


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Thanks for the compliment. It will probably take a couple of weeks to get the boat engine checked out and repaired. Since that is also the time recommended for quarantine from exposure to the virus it will all work out. I was not at the slips when the sick family was there but I don't know who was there and around them. No one wears a mask at the slips and almost everybody visits everybody else when at the slips. Since I'm in my 70's I consider it safer to just stay away from the slips for a couple of weeks. I am already experiencing withdrawal symptoms from not being at the slip. :(

But as soon as my engine is repaired I will be back chasing them again, letting them frustrate me by turning their noses up at the jigs I offer them. rotfl

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

maybe we can H to fix up your trailer lights , i will ask him next week , is the trailer where the other big boat is ?

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No, the trailer is in the marina storage lot. I also need to get license plates for it. I haven't bought plates for three years now so I don't know what it will cost to get this year's plates. I quit buying plates for it after having the plates stolen two years in a row. I seldom need the trailer and saw no reason to buy plates for somebody else to use.

In fact I use it so seldom that I am thinking about fixing it up and selling it. Tired of paying the marina for storage on it when they provide no security and take no responsibility when things get stolen while in their storage lot. If I could trust the marine repair shop at the front of the marina I would not ever need the trailer. But I found out that I can not trust them after letting them work on my 28' cabin cruiser.

trust in people in general to do what is right is not something that typically ends well these days .
i have an idea about a boat slip for you we might need to chat about .
its a longer drive to be sure , but i imagine its cheaper and the crappie are stupid there and quite often pretty big .
my truck mechanic just bought an old marina and is moving his shop there .
he is going to rent some slips .
offered me one a week ago as a matter of fact .
of course its shallow water over most of the entire lake
but it is kind to crappie fisher people for sure :cheers2

Went to marina locked storage lot to measure my pontoon for new planks. It was not there. So tomorrow I must go to the marina to talk with the manager to find out what they are going to do about the missing trailer. I suspect they will tell me to notify my insurance company as they are not responsible when a trailer is stolen out of their secured facility.

Don't know why someone would have taken my 7 year trailer as there are a lot of nicer newer ones parked in the storage yard.

somehow i think if they have it inside a locked facility and you pay for storage they should be held responsible .
but i know a fella who had a brand new VERY expensive BIG honda boat motor stolen off his boat in a highly secure storage facility and even though they had video and lic. plate numbers , nothing was done about it .
his insurance had to pay up ....and we wonder why insurance is so high these days :banghead

Found the trailer. The marina had it under a pontoon they were trying to sell that they had seized for unpaid slip rental. Said that they thought the trailer belonged to that pontoon. Glad I needed the trailer before they sold it. Then I would have never known what happened to it.

Wow, what a crazy story, EZ! Glad that part turned out OK for you.

Wow, glad you found your trailer! So pontoon on your trailer is your property now right... :Rofl

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Originally Posted by ezgoing

Found the trailer. The marina had it under a pontoon they were trying to sell that they had seized for unpaid slip rental. Said that they thought the trailer belonged to that pontoon. Glad I needed the trailer before they sold it. Then I would have never known what happened to it.

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sure sure they "thought" it was a trailer to another pontoon ...that is flat out horse dung my friend ...them are some crooked as a snakes back people you are dealing with over there .....makes me all kinds of hot under the collar to think they are/were doing you that way ....:mad:

I got the trailer back yesterday but now need to order new boards for it. One was missing, one was rotten and half broke off, the other two were also rotten when I checked them. Funny how fast rot can happen since I used the trailer last year and all the boards were there and in good shape then.

I understand that boards do rot but I did not think it could happen so fast. But the tires are on it and in good shape, no cracks or other signs of dry rot about them.

As bad as the boards are I don't understand how they had a pontoon sitting on it, especially with the one board missing and the one broken off half way up the trailer.

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Wow, glad you found your trailer! So pontoon on your trailer is your property now right... :Rofl

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Be nice if it were. I have a friend who could use one. ;)

that sounds like the kind of luck i would have. why would someone steal a license plate off a boat. just disrespectful meanness i guess.

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I got the trailer back yesterday but now need to order new boards for it. One was missing, one was rotten and half broke off, the other two were also rotten when I checked them. Funny how fast rot can happen since I used the trailer last year and all the boards were there and in good shape then.

I understand that boards do rot but I did not think it could happen so fast. But the tires are on it and in good shape, no cracks or other signs of dry rot about them.

As bad as the boards are I don't understand how they had a pontoon sitting on it, especially with the one board missing and the one broken off half way up the trailer.

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i smell horse poo , way over here in 30 miles away bro .....they was about to fix it up and sell it or had it sold ....wrong is the word ,real wrong ....:mad:

Not the boat, the boat trailer. Saved them the expense of having the trailer inspected and the cost of the license plates by putting it on their boat trailer. Texas had a big problem with people stealing license plates off cars, which is why they went to the inside windshield sticker for license plate expiration date. But you can't do that with boat trailers so some people steal them.

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

i smell horse poo , way over here in 30 miles away bro .....they was about to fix it up and sell it or had it sold ....wrong is the word ,real wrong ....:mad:

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They had a pontoon sitting on it, with pontoon and trailer up for sale. I saw the pontoon on the sales lot around a month ago but did not realize my trailer was missing until last week, when I needed it to take my pontoon out of the water for motor service. It was just pure luck on my part when I started searching for my trailer that I saw the locks on the ladder of that trailer and realized they looked like my locks. I then went into the sales lot and verfied it was my trailer by a scratch on the fender where somebody had backed into it three years ago. I notified the marina manager, we went to the sales lot and verfied it was in fact my trailer.

But I don't understand how they were able to put a pontoon on it, given one board was missing, one board only the front half of the board and another board was just lying on the brackets, no bolts in it. I intend to ask the marina manager today how they were able to put it into the water and load the pontoon on it. Seems as if the unattached board would have floated away when the trailer went into the water and the brackets for the missing board would have damaged the pontoon of the boat as it was driven upon the trailer. Of course when I used it last year all the boards were in place and in good shape. So somebody had to have switched boards as boards do not rot that fast and they do not disappear if they do rot.

Only thing I can think of is the boards were switched after the pontoon was removed from the trailer and the trailer was placed back into the secure storage area. There was a two day time period between me finding the trailer and me seeing it back in the storage lot. I did not notice any missing boards when I found it but I did not pay any attention to the boards at that time.

I don't believe the marina manager would change the boards so it is a mystery to me what actually happened and when it happened. Which is why I am going to ask him about the boards today. It is going to cost me $550 to get the boards replaced with marine grade pressurelized boards and marine grade carpet so I am not too happy right now.

you might want to bring a can of air freshener with ya as that smell is pretty strong way over here in ft worth
and for sure wear a mask as it will help filter out the larger air borne particulate chunks of that manure that get lodged in the nasal air ways when its in that abundance .....just saying :Rofl
on a side note ,sorry i am staying away , if i get over there in the middle of it , i am pretty sure i will go to jail . last go round like this with them kinda folks the police had to come make me settle down .i really cant stand a person stealing from me and smiling in my face while they do it !

you can do what I do at my slip, just stay on board my toon and visit with folks and fish off it. so we can talk but not get too close. but dang, what a tale. Lucky for my my trailer is at my son's house who lives close by LSL. My bunkers were really good when I bought it four years ago then the next year looked and one was like a noodle, son replaced that. Then this year looked again and another was just hanging there rotten. Oh well it happens.

good luck in sorting this all out but definitely you need to find a better place to store your trailer.