Strawberry, Wednesday Report

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I forget to put the drain plug in mine all the time. I have an oversized bilge pump. I've had 6 inches of water in the bottom of the boat above the floor boards and turned the bilge pump on and pumped the boat dry in less than tweny minutes with the plug still missing. When we camp on the boat, I pull it into shallow muddy/sandy water. Pull the plug and let it sink until it settles and doesn't rock and move with the waves and put the plug back in. In the morning I turn the bilge pump on and float away. Bilge pumps are a relatively cheap upgrade. On todays trip I had a blow out on the trailer tire on the way there, forgot the tire chains and found the boat ramp to be solid ice, left the tackle boxes home and only had the gear tied on the poles, left the fish finder with the tackle boxes, and got into white caps and a snow storm on the lake. To top it off my wife dropped my favorite pole in the lake in 70 feet of water (not recovered). If you ever snag a pole in the canyon just south of Linwood bay, let me know. I guess I know what I'm getting for Christnas.
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