Sad Day...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 1:57PM I apologize to all of you die hard fishwithmatt.com readers and followers for not getting you fun and exciting updates. I am sad to report that I have been out of commisson. Last week I fished Wednesday for bass and Thursday on Lake Calhoun for bass and muskie. I do not have any killer pictures from either trip but it was fun while it lasted. Everything ended on a bad note on Friday.
From the top. I started Friday morning at Lake Minnetonka at 5:30 for a morning photo shoot with FLW Outdoors. After an extensive morning shoot that went really well we took a short lunch break. About 3 pm we headed back out on the water for an evening shoot that also went well until it started raining and ruined our lighting and sunset. It was a little after 7 and showed no signs of letting up so they called it a wrap. My day was over and all I had to do was get my boat back to the ramp, get it loaded, and head home. As I was running across the main lake I felt my boat loseing power and what felt like slipping. Moments later it lost all power and stalled out. I was not able to get the motor started again. After trolling back to the ramp and having it looked at on Saturday it was determined that I had blown out my lower unit. They were able to get the motor to run but the gears were completely gone in the gear case. So I am off the water for the time being. I am going to try and get another gear case on the boat and back on the water in the next few weeks.
I am still going to be offering guide trips through the fall if you would like to go. Ranger is going to step up and get me a boat for the days I need it. I also have two other great guides that I work with that I can set you up with if I am booked or am not able to get on the water.
I am headed to Wisc. over the weekend to do a little bow hunting. There are some real giant whitetails on the farm and I hope to have pictures and stories to post here as soon as I return. This site might turn to huntwithmatt.com for a short while. Regardless I will continue to report all my fishing and hunting success or mishaps here...stay tuned.
Lake Waconia
Reader Comments (3)
Bummer dude! Well, I hear it's your birthday. Congratulations. Maybe you can get your lower-unit worked on as a b-day present. And I hope you get your engine running too!