Trial, tribulations and determination

[Catcher'sMitt]

As reported earlier we were going to fish in the Casting for Kids tournament being held out of Bobby Lynn's North in Leeville.

well we had a bit of trouble. left the dock at 5:15. make a right in bayou Lafouche to go get some bait, got up on plane and spun a hub. didn't get to fish at all in the tournament. spent all day trying to get a prop to work. Up and down the bayou. got a hub pressed in and back down the bayou for the second time and third try of fitting a prop. should work since it is the same prop with a new hub....wrong. splines are too long and wont let it go all the way down and nestle in lower unit.

back up the bayou with boat this time.........can't fine a hub to match with short splines. so he goes looking in his other shop for a wheel that will fit. third try, a stiletto racing prop with 15 pitch fits. I say great, but I don't have a racing hull. lol

so we go test run it right down the bayou to the shop. It jumps out the hole and runs pretty good. back in business. go to load it on the trailer, hook the winch line on it, give it little gas, ok. motor dies, big *** boat slides back and cracks the winch stand.

back to the shop to weld the stand......one more problem the church parking lot i pull in to pull through far exit it has a oak tree over it. way to low for the center console with 10 rods to go though ......back out on 308 saturday afternoon.not. little bit of grass between parking stops and highway made it.

get it welded and we are good to go. A BIG thank you to Ricky Guidry of Larose Propellers for helping us all Saturday afternoon. It is amazing how nice, friendly and helpful he is.

back to the camp. arrive and put the boat in the water and dock it. Alden has jumbo shrimp boiled up. eat shrimp and sit down in the zero gravity chair with a corona. time? 5:45 pm!

one killer thing we found out, while i was running down spare props that didnt work, Alden went fishing around the camp and caught a bunch of pogeys for bait. probably put in the live well at about 7 am. we fished with those pogeys until 11 pm Saturday night. the pogeys were in the boat the whole time. the boat was out of the water for 2 or 3 hours! diffused O2 is tits!

Thank God the hub spun the first rattle out the box and not at East Timbalier where we were headed.

so all you guys out there that are holding on to your money. let it go and get you a spare prop. you will need it eventually and it will save your trip.


Soft rides and hard strikes

Mark