Quackrstackr
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And it has been lackluster at best so far.
Season started on June 1 but work kept me chained down until yesterday. A couple of the guys that set their own schedules got to go and wound up with a flathead of about 35 lbs, 2 near 15 and a blue cat of about 20 lbs.
We went yesterday and plucked a 25 lb flathead out on the first reach in.. that's a lot like catching a fish on your first cast and everybody knows what happens after that. It's a bad omen. We did wind up with a couple of 8 lb or so channel cats and another flathead of about 10 lbs much later in the afternoon.. right before my buddy's 2008 40hp, 4 stroke Yamaha seized up on him, ending the day. :shock:
They cruised up from checking a hole a few hundred yards away to see if we were having any luck and about 20 seconds after kicking it out of gear and while idling.. pop. The abrupt stop nearly jerked the tiller out of his hand. He runs that motor like an 80 year old man and it doesn't have that many hours on it, either. We struck a sandbar back in duck season that barely scraped paint on the prop and the motor immediately started making a knocking sound. He carried it to the local Yamaha warranty center where they tore the lower unit apart and stuck him for a new prop and told him that there was nothing wrong with the motor. It didn't make the sound anymore until about a month ago when he popped a small rock at idle speed that barely made a nick on a blade. Then it started again. Thinking the dealer knew what they were talking about the first time, he's been in no hurry to buy another prop. I told him that props don't make sounds like that, especially ones that have barely struck anything. I guess now he will listen to me. I took the plugs out and couldn't even turn the motor over by hand.
We had 2 full boat loads of people yesterday and had launched several miles from where his motor seized. Luckilly, there was a ramp just across the way where he could take the boat out. We had to conduct a mid lake Chinese fire drill so that I could carry enough people back to the original launch to shuffle all of the vehicles to the rescue site and pick up the rest of them.
We were supposed to go again today but are now down to just my boat and a max capacity of 4 if we went. The wind is also blowing from 15 to 22 mph so I'm sitting here wondering if I want to tempt fate again today with him along as a passenger. :lol:
We have another 2 boat load of guests coming in from 5 hours away next weekend. Maybe it is nothing major with his motor but I'm not betting on it. Looks like he may be making a drive up to his parents sometime this week to pick up his dad's boat. Something tells me his is going to be out of action for a while.
Season started on June 1 but work kept me chained down until yesterday. A couple of the guys that set their own schedules got to go and wound up with a flathead of about 35 lbs, 2 near 15 and a blue cat of about 20 lbs.
We went yesterday and plucked a 25 lb flathead out on the first reach in.. that's a lot like catching a fish on your first cast and everybody knows what happens after that. It's a bad omen. We did wind up with a couple of 8 lb or so channel cats and another flathead of about 10 lbs much later in the afternoon.. right before my buddy's 2008 40hp, 4 stroke Yamaha seized up on him, ending the day. :shock:
They cruised up from checking a hole a few hundred yards away to see if we were having any luck and about 20 seconds after kicking it out of gear and while idling.. pop. The abrupt stop nearly jerked the tiller out of his hand. He runs that motor like an 80 year old man and it doesn't have that many hours on it, either. We struck a sandbar back in duck season that barely scraped paint on the prop and the motor immediately started making a knocking sound. He carried it to the local Yamaha warranty center where they tore the lower unit apart and stuck him for a new prop and told him that there was nothing wrong with the motor. It didn't make the sound anymore until about a month ago when he popped a small rock at idle speed that barely made a nick on a blade. Then it started again. Thinking the dealer knew what they were talking about the first time, he's been in no hurry to buy another prop. I told him that props don't make sounds like that, especially ones that have barely struck anything. I guess now he will listen to me. I took the plugs out and couldn't even turn the motor over by hand.
We had 2 full boat loads of people yesterday and had launched several miles from where his motor seized. Luckilly, there was a ramp just across the way where he could take the boat out. We had to conduct a mid lake Chinese fire drill so that I could carry enough people back to the original launch to shuffle all of the vehicles to the rescue site and pick up the rest of them.
We were supposed to go again today but are now down to just my boat and a max capacity of 4 if we went. The wind is also blowing from 15 to 22 mph so I'm sitting here wondering if I want to tempt fate again today with him along as a passenger. :lol:
We have another 2 boat load of guests coming in from 5 hours away next weekend. Maybe it is nothing major with his motor but I'm not betting on it. Looks like he may be making a drive up to his parents sometime this week to pick up his dad's boat. Something tells me his is going to be out of action for a while.
