YEA! I dropped off the house guests at the airport 5AM this morning. I am Checking all my fishing gear and loading up this afternoon. I'll be at Hunters tomorrow morning...Finally.
Sometimes it better just to stop what you are doing and laugh!!
Before I went up to Hunters on Tuesday I spent 2 hours searching for my hand-held GPS. That became a REAL senior moment... never did find it.
Twenty minutes after I arrived, Hunters staged my shack and 10 minutes later Dave arrived to pull me out. I had Scouted the area where I wanted to be but without the GPS I just had a general location identified. I showed Dave three possible spots on my Map and all three had houses on the spots. I was ready to go to an alternative when two guys and a portable parked on that spot. I finally told Dave to put it on top of a rock transition at about 25-26 feet. Had to carry snow to bank... punched three holes and dropped a couple of minnows down While I finished setting up. I used the third hole to drop my camera and found that hole was on a two foot high rock. Things could have been worse.
Well, my furnace kept going out so I cleaned the Thermo-coupler and that did the trick until 2AM when I woke up Freezing. Seems that the stove only works good during the daylight because the next night I had the same problem. After restarting the furnace twice, once at 11:30AM and Once at 3:15AM. I turned in my gas lights and gave up on the furnace.
Thursday morning about 6:45AM I awoke to a rattling sound. I took a minute to figure out that it was one of my rattle-wheels. The Great Mille Lacs Fishing God had rewarded my paience with a nice 18" Walleye. All was good in House #49.
