i launched the john boat in the rain after what seems like a life time of not having the time to fish. I'm thinking i have a fully charged battery and as i get 50 feet from shore "poof" the trolling motor stops dead and i realize the battery is a gonner... but since i was out there i figured, make the best of it and have some fun. I anchored in about thirty feet of depth and caught a fish on my second cast.....but it wasn't to well hooked and got free. eventually i hooked a nice rainbow but it took awhile and i was thoroughly soaked before i paddled against a fierce wind and headed for home.
Back home i was determining what was wrong with the trolling motor and it worked fine off the car battery...and i have my dingo outside with me
(cattledog) ...then she chases after a woman pushing a baby stroller and i'm yelling at her to get out of the street....and she runs and jumps in the Van knowing shes a bad dog for doing that and gets hooked on the face with a crawdad lure in the process. luckilly i was able to unhook her but she almost hooked her paw to her face and that would have been nasty.
i put her in the "time out" pen...fixed my gear....two rods were all fouled up
and changed into dry clothes and then headed back there to fish from shore and had the place to myself...it was real cold and windy but i managed to hook a nice brown trout and we just had them for dinner.
i'll be heading back in the morning to go trolling like i intended to do today but the weather should be sunny and warm instead of all this SLOP !
seeing the Osprey having a fish in it's talons and circling was a great site too
it made me happy inside to be out there at last.
A Raven adventure
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