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Went fishing last night, got 2 nice cats, beautiful night , everything worked as it should.
I got out about 6:30 pm and called it at midnight because I have tickets to the game today( GO IRISH!!!) and wanted to get a decent nights sleep, home 1:30, posting this at 7, geuss that didn't work.
Get back to the ramp which has a big cement wall and "dock", eased up to it, grabbed my launch rope and when I got close I jumped out and turned around to keep the boat from hitting the giant concrete peer and hook up the rope except I pushed off to hard and the boat is about a foot too far away to reach and going away.
Well crap, I remember I am holding the rope and hook so I throw it at the boat trying to wrap it around the trolling motor, hooks for a second then, PLOP, now she is 6' away and going.
I know I have one more shot at it before it is too far away and I have to go swimming, so I throw the rope again and pull really slow, it hooks, then slips, then hooked up again and I got it in but it was way way too close, I am really glad I didn't have to jump in, I was in the river and it was 40 last night, water is 61, would have been a very long cold ride home.
I will never ever again get out of the boat without the rope already on, that is the closest I want to come to actually perfoming a stupid human trick.
I got out about 6:30 pm and called it at midnight because I have tickets to the game today( GO IRISH!!!) and wanted to get a decent nights sleep, home 1:30, posting this at 7, geuss that didn't work.
Get back to the ramp which has a big cement wall and "dock", eased up to it, grabbed my launch rope and when I got close I jumped out and turned around to keep the boat from hitting the giant concrete peer and hook up the rope except I pushed off to hard and the boat is about a foot too far away to reach and going away.
Well crap, I remember I am holding the rope and hook so I throw it at the boat trying to wrap it around the trolling motor, hooks for a second then, PLOP, now she is 6' away and going.
I know I have one more shot at it before it is too far away and I have to go swimming, so I throw the rope again and pull really slow, it hooks, then slips, then hooked up again and I got it in but it was way way too close, I am really glad I didn't have to jump in, I was in the river and it was 40 last night, water is 61, would have been a very long cold ride home.
I will never ever again get out of the boat without the rope already on, that is the closest I want to come to actually perfoming a stupid human trick.
