Well, this morning around 7:00 I decided to go fishing. Thought I would put in at the free launch and just fish Bayou Cannok for a while. No big or long trip, but it turned into a nightmare!
When I launched the boat, it drifted out to the end of the bowline at which time the bowline decided to break. The boat was drifting away,but there were 2 fellow fishermen preparing to trailer their boat and they pulled/pushed my boat back in to shore for me. Of course when trying to reach the boat, I slipped on the muddy bank and fell on my butt, skinning my shin in the process of wetting and muddying my clothes. After retying the bowline I finally boarded the boat and pushed away from shore.
After cranking the motor I was backing away from shore when I kit something submerged, it must have been a chunk of concrete because unbeknownst to me, it bent the prop pretty badly. Then I began to notice the water slowly filling up the boat! I had forgot to put in the plug!!!
No problem I figured, just plane out the boat, let it drain, then put the plug in. Nope, the evil sprites had other ideas. With the badly bent prop the boat wouldn’t plane so I had to quickly ——- very quickly turn around and beach the boat before it sank.
Putting the boat onto the trailer wasn’t a problem, it glided on the trailer just as it is supposed to, but of course I couldn’t let that happen so I slipped again and got soaked while skinning my elbow. After I waited about 20 minutes for all the water to drain from the boat, I got back in the truck.
Bloody, muddy, skinned up, mad at myself, and fishless, but alive!!
Nope, just wasn’t my day to go fishing!