walleye express
06-02-2005, 05:14 PM
Got a report and a funny little story for you all. Got a call late last night from a guy from Minnesota who was in town and wanted to fish the Bay today with his fiancee and his future father-in-law. So I checked the weather forecast and it says SE winds/waves 1 foot or less, Ya Right..... but I'll touch on that later.
So this morning I get up early, wanting to get down to my boat and make sure she's shiny clean for the trip. Now like everybody who keeps their boats tied up at Marinas, I keep each corner of the boat tied off so it doesn't hit the dock, rub or damage anything. So when I get to the boat this morning the wind is blowing it away from the dock, being stopped at some point of course by the ropes. So I put my hand full of Camera, Gator Aide, and carton of Nightcrawler down on the dock and pull the boat closer so I can step one leg in onto my walk around deck. I then grab all this stuff back up, (including now the water hose to wash down my boat) and make the BIG step. Well, in that short time the boat has drifted back out away from the dock a mere couple of inches longer than my legs are. Of course I stretch my legs a little longer to get there, but it's useless. I fall crotch and gut first on my boats walk rail, throw the stuff in my hands on the boat, and overboard I go between the dock and the boat.
Never until today has that saying "The Bigger they are, the Harder they fall" had more meaning to me. I now have two very nasty Purple, swollen, either blood clots or massive tissue damaged areas on my forearm and thigh. I did run the charter and we caught several walleyes today before the predicted SE winds stayed NE and the waves built to 3 to 5 Feet and blew us off. At one point when the four rods with my T-stick Jr.s and spoons sliders were not being touched for almost an hour, we pulled them in and every one had one of tow little dinks hanging on them. Anyway, I feel I earned my pay today. :rant: :lol:
http://www.walleye-express.com/albums/summer/IM000930.sized.jpg
So this morning I get up early, wanting to get down to my boat and make sure she's shiny clean for the trip. Now like everybody who keeps their boats tied up at Marinas, I keep each corner of the boat tied off so it doesn't hit the dock, rub or damage anything. So when I get to the boat this morning the wind is blowing it away from the dock, being stopped at some point of course by the ropes. So I put my hand full of Camera, Gator Aide, and carton of Nightcrawler down on the dock and pull the boat closer so I can step one leg in onto my walk around deck. I then grab all this stuff back up, (including now the water hose to wash down my boat) and make the BIG step. Well, in that short time the boat has drifted back out away from the dock a mere couple of inches longer than my legs are. Of course I stretch my legs a little longer to get there, but it's useless. I fall crotch and gut first on my boats walk rail, throw the stuff in my hands on the boat, and overboard I go between the dock and the boat.
Never until today has that saying "The Bigger they are, the Harder they fall" had more meaning to me. I now have two very nasty Purple, swollen, either blood clots or massive tissue damaged areas on my forearm and thigh. I did run the charter and we caught several walleyes today before the predicted SE winds stayed NE and the waves built to 3 to 5 Feet and blew us off. At one point when the four rods with my T-stick Jr.s and spoons sliders were not being touched for almost an hour, we pulled them in and every one had one of tow little dinks hanging on them. Anyway, I feel I earned my pay today. :rant: :lol:
http://www.walleye-express.com/albums/summer/IM000930.sized.jpg