Today started off for pure sheot!
cell phone didn’t charge last night and woke myself up amazingly at 5am, to get ready to go fishing. Took the battery off the charger for the kayak and make sure everything was working as I started charging my phone in the truck.
Got to where I was going to launch to find out that some idiot in charge of roadwork closed down my launch point. Made a quick U-Turn and got to the other nearby park before dawn still. Threw in my code and the gate opened so I made a dash to my favorite parking spot.. backed into the spot and some jack wagon was making a ruckus with his kid trying to offload some weird looking bathtub of a kayak.
Quickly offloaded the yak and made the first tip to the water with it. On the way I noticed both tires were flat.. screw it.. 10 more yards to pull it. Ran the wheel system to the truck and chucked it into the bed (mumbling swear words at it).
Set a drift and started the 3 mile treck to my fishing spot.. all the mean wile the two ruckus makers were following me.. wishing I brought my M80’s at that point.. big lake.. don’t follow people and hunt out others spots..
got to my spot and and started fishing… they set anchor about 15 yards away.. I could have gotten them with a 2oz weight easily but I was jigging for crappie and not throwing for bass.
before I knew it three other people were trying to set up camp near me.. this made me mad… i changed locations up river about 400 yards where I knew there was another one of my honey holes.. if you don’t know the river then you would not know this location exists.. I had to bring my rods in and lean my seat back to squeeze through some brush to get there.
About 20 min into fishing I got a hellva hit on the line.. my guess it was a flathead catfish. Pulled me around like I had a trolling motor… as I was about to net it, the line snapped and this really pissed me off.. more choose words were thrown around… re-hooked the line and sent the jig back down… all the sudden I heard beeping like crazy.. looked around and I’m all alone still…. Damn it was my Garmin fish finder… screen went black, battery still had a good charge.. it was singing the song of utter chaos… I pulled the plug and let it sit for a bit before turning it back on.. NOTHING….. it was dead… DEAD… dead!
at this point I’m about a 30-40 min non stop paddle back to the truck.. called it quits and will try again mid summer when I can buy a new finder. Need to scrap money aside and the one I want is not cheap.