Went out to the lake today. They provided a v bottom aluminum boat with one broken oar and one oar I rough shape.
I’m super excited to go fishing so I pushed that v bottom off into the water after I turning it around.
I go to step off in it, the boat rolled and off in the lake I go. I stand up now very wet and get back in the boat.
I push off right into a plethora of lily pads that stop the boat. Having only one oar, getting the boat out to open water was a chore but I made it. Now I’m thirsty and noticed I left my water in the truck.
I grab my reel and go to run the line through the eyelets but the line is all tangled up at the reel. After fixing this and finally tying the fly on the line I realized that all the casting I’ve done has been while standing up and I am having the hardest time casting while sitting down.
Mind you I don’t really want to roll out the boat again.
After some time I decide to go home. I line the boat up with where I want it on the shore and I know I have to go through all those lily pads again. I thought I’d get going as fast as I could but with only one oar that ended up being kinda slow so like a tractor in low gear I chugged to the shore.
Hear I sit knowing that once I stand up in the boat it is going to roll and I might get thrown. I try to guess the roll maybe like a bull rider tries to guess the turn. Anyway it rolled I lost my balance, my magnetic release for my all wood fly fishing net gave way and I stepped on it and broke it in half.
At this point I just stepped out onto the water, drug the boat to shore, stored it out of the way and went home.
Still a great day.
I’m super excited to go fishing so I pushed that v bottom off into the water after I turning it around.
I go to step off in it, the boat rolled and off in the lake I go. I stand up now very wet and get back in the boat.
I push off right into a plethora of lily pads that stop the boat. Having only one oar, getting the boat out to open water was a chore but I made it. Now I’m thirsty and noticed I left my water in the truck.
I grab my reel and go to run the line through the eyelets but the line is all tangled up at the reel. After fixing this and finally tying the fly on the line I realized that all the casting I’ve done has been while standing up and I am having the hardest time casting while sitting down.
Mind you I don’t really want to roll out the boat again.
After some time I decide to go home. I line the boat up with where I want it on the shore and I know I have to go through all those lily pads again. I thought I’d get going as fast as I could but with only one oar that ended up being kinda slow so like a tractor in low gear I chugged to the shore.
Hear I sit knowing that once I stand up in the boat it is going to roll and I might get thrown. I try to guess the roll maybe like a bull rider tries to guess the turn. Anyway it rolled I lost my balance, my magnetic release for my all wood fly fishing net gave way and I stepped on it and broke it in half.
At this point I just stepped out onto the water, drug the boat to shore, stored it out of the way and went home.
Still a great day.