The weekend was a great one for fishing and it started of early for us. We hit the water at 12-midnight and fished until about 2:45am, 3 bass was the tally when we came in for a few hours of sleep. We were back on the water at 5:15am and put our first fish of 2010 into the net at 6:30am. A nice healthy 44 inch fish 
Notice the loon in the 3rd pic, he was there to have breakfast too 
We managed to boat some good pike during the rain on Saturday and we lost one other Lunge that ate right at the boat, however I was taking with Max in the next boat over and I never saw the fish eat, until it was to late 
That’s what I get for not paying attention!
Sunday is when things tunred BAD for me. I fishing until 3pm with 2 very lazy follows. I decided it was time to pack up and head home. I pulled in at the landing and tied the boat off at the dock, backed the trailer in and got back into the boat. The motor would not start! I started up the kicker and got the front of the boat on the trailer, then got out and hooked up the winch, as I am starting to make some ground the winch decides it time for the tooth fairy to show up. Yep, I stripped about 15 teeth off the winch. I was able to get the boat secured enough to get it out of the water and home. I backed into the driveway and got the boat 1/2 way into the garage. I then dropped the tounge jack and made 3 cranks when that stripped out too 
At this point everything I had touched in the last hour, broke. I got in the wifes car and drove to Northern Tool to find a tounge jack and a winch, only to pull up just as the guy was locking up for the day. Down the road to Cabela’s to see what they had. I purchsed a jack and a winch and headed home to replace the broken parts. Guess what? The Cabela’s parts were not compatable with what came off my boat. The only good that came from all this was I was able to get Bill from Extreme Marine on the phone and told him I would be out there on Monday with the boat.
I sure hope next weekend is a little less uneventful 
