fishmaycraft
Cadet
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2002
- Messages
- 25
So Saturday morning I'm at the Roanoke River planning on going after the Rockfish on there spawning run and I jump in the boat to back her off the trailer. It fires right up and all seems well, put her in reverse, nothing, giver her some gas, nothing. I hollar for my buddy to get out of the truck and make sure he disconnected everything up front and he says yep! No problem, get back in the truck and back up and stop to throw me off. He does and I don't budge. After scratching my head for a little while and listening to an old man on the bank tell me "You just need to give her more gas!" It dawns on me, of course I forgot to take the transom straps off. Very cooly I ease to the back and reach all the way down in the water and release them, of course then when I hit reverse she slides off perfectly only to hear the old man say, "I told you, just needed more gas!" When my buddy pulls the trailer out, it had floated over to the right,(with the boat) and it smacks off a pole between the two ramps. <br />15 min later as we're heading up-river, I hit a log floating just under the surface and knock my depthfinder out, luckily no other damage, I was going very slow for all the debris in the water.<br />We caught 6 rockfish, but all in all, would have been better for my stress level to just sleep in that day!!<br />Sorry, just had to vent