11-20-2003, 09:42 PM
[size 2]Arrived at the Strawberry marina ramp at 10 AM. Loaded up all the gear in the boat and was about ready to launch when my son asked me where the drain plug - aaaaaah - laying in the driveway at home. I had taken it out and set it on the trailer frame. After about 30 minutes of waiting for someone to show up at the marina store, we borrowed one from a kind fisherman. Finally we launched the boat after turning on the GPS so we could find our way through the thick fog bank. So much for the forecasted 15 to 25 mph winds – the water was like glass for most of the day. Well we thought all of our troubles were behind us, not, we got about 300 yards out when the impeller went out. Got back to shore with the electric and replaced the impeller with my spare and found that when I had drained the water out of the impeller a couple of weeks back, I had reversed the intake hose with the discharge hose. –" I should know better" – anyway after cussing and apologizing to my son for screwing up 3 hrs. of our fishing trip we headed out to the rest of a great day of fishing. We caught some nice cutts and one rainbow, the biggest a healthy 25" cutt witch I released to go and eat all of those stinking Chubb’s.
The fog burned off about noon. Mud Creek was starting to ice up. The marina ramp was mostly clear of ice and snow, and as we were leaving at dark, a forest service officer was checking for fishing licenses and fish.
We were fishing with white colored ¼oz Jigs. Water temp. 40.[/size]
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The fog burned off about noon. Mud Creek was starting to ice up. The marina ramp was mostly clear of ice and snow, and as we were leaving at dark, a forest service officer was checking for fishing licenses and fish.
We were fishing with white colored ¼oz Jigs. Water temp. 40.[/size]
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