Where Eagles Dare

Date: May 27, 2007
Location: WBL
Air temp: low 70s
Water temp: ???
Hatches: N/A
Fish landed: 1 Rock Bazz and a bunch of panfish

Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QuickDraw(spinfishing)

Non members:
Naaz

Well tonight was all about overcoming obstacles. We got to my Mom & Dad's place around 5pm and we proceeded to get the boat ready for it's first outing of the year, filled the tires up on the trailer and all of the batteries were good. and we were off to get some live bait and gas for the boat. I remember making the remark to Naaz, "So far we haven't had any problems".

Well, when we got to the boat landing we were about 7th in line, "not bad" I thought to my self "25 minutes tops". About 45 minutes later it was finally our turn after witnessing countless acts of dipshittery. well we got the boat in and it started on the first pull and then quickly died, the second pull the recoil got messed up and we couldn't get it to retract the pull. We decided to row out a ways and try to fix the boat out there. I forgot my leatherman so I didn't have any tools to work with. After about 15 minutes of tinkering the engine was fixed and we were on our way.

Well we made a run across the lake to a new spot that we had never tried, a small sunken island surrounded by waters 40 fathoms deep. looks like a good spot on paper, but all we managed to get was 1 rock bass and a few decent sunfish. no walleyes. after dark we got our troll on which was fruitless. oh well, at least we had plenty of booze. The moral of the story, Always bring more booze than you think you'll need, you may need more.