A pictures worth a 1000 words

[GbayGiant]

Of vulgar profanity.

 

I was going full speed to the river today and all of a sudden my boat stops and the engine revs up so high it almost blew, took the lid of the motor to check things out everything seems to be fine, looked down at the lower end to see that the prop fell off. This was my extra prop. Oh well motors fine just need a couple new props.

 

 

 

Had a cell phone so all was fine, ride was on the way. Caught this little guy while waiting, I took it home to clean, usually would have let it go but I was in a clubing mood.

 

 

My old man came to the rescue in my old fishing vessel, 15hp, pulled us home in 45min from where I was, going around 9mph according to the fish finder..

 

 

Pulled out the musky rod and stayed in my boat and trolled the whole way home but 4mph would have been my normal range 9 was a little quick, didn't get any action but had the lure running true the entire way.

 

 

Anyway just remember a spare prop and cotter pin is the moral of this story.

 

 

Here's a couple gay man I took last week, this guy almost got a prop to the noggin, he was more than half way accross but the boat scared him and he turned around and went back even though it was further away.

 

 

 

 

[Clampet]

Glad you were able to get some help lickity split.

Any idear why the prop came off?

[GbayGiant]

Ya, cause I'm an idiot.

 

It was a crappy rusty cotter pin I put in at the start of the year, I don't think it was stainless steal so it rotted and broke off is my guess.

[fishindevil]

Well its a good job the boater seen him at the last min,or yogi bear would have been dead yogi.. .LOL..LOL.. im suprised he swam all the way back ??? i thought they were smarter than that...

[brandon]

lol been there before.....although we didn't have a cell phone and we only had one paddle......quite the adventure getting home...

[Tarzan's Jane]

Maybe your Pops wasn't too impressed...next time you drive the boat and let him fish on the way back lol

BTW...we are enjoying those rods...mine seem to collect more dust...for now.

[huey graphite]

Ya, cause I'm an idiot.

 

 

Almost spit my coffee!

[Terry]

man, a prop flying off could sure do some damage.....

[Uncle Buck]

Almost looks like a salmon that's at the end of it's life and ready to head up the stream

 

[GbayGiant]

Glad you like them Hen, get out there and get a big one.

 

Almost looks like a salmon that's at the end of it's life and ready to head up the stream

 

Yep it's a little skunky at the moment, It's been in the water since April. I don't now about other waters but up here I've never seen so much algae/pollen in my life, there were two weeks where I seen yellow brick roads out in the bay and you could hardly breath the air, it really was thick and my boat needs a wash on the bottom that's for sure.

 

Anyone else see "yellow brick roads" in the water this year ?

 

I mean these were 50 yards wide and as far as I could see long out in the middle of the bay for 2 weeks.