Tyme2fish
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- Feb 19, 2002
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OK fellow I-boaters, I've been a member of this forum for quite some time and this is my first "Stupid Human Trick" to report.<br />I've been having some problems with my motor (1972 Merc 75 HP) and needed the wife to help me check it out. My best fishing buddy was away in Minn. fishing, so the wife was second choice.<br />I figured if we were going to the river to check out the motor, we might as well go fishing if the motor worked. Stop and get the wife her license and she runs in at the next stop at the supermarket to buy some chicken liver for the cats I wanted to go after. She buys frozen chicken liver. First mistake of the day. (Second if you count me asking her to go.)<br />We launch the boat alright but the motor is still messing up like it did. I tell her, let's just go up river and fish. We putt putt up river against about a 5mph current (only a guess) and as I'm only making 7 mph on my speedomter it takes a little while to get to the spot I wanted to fish.<br />I always use a rock for an anchor here because of all the hangups on the bottom. Lower the anchor (rock) over the side and start to rig up the wife's rod. I get her rigged up and look and see that we are about 300 yards downstream from where I wanted to be. Looked at the anchor rope floating on the surface. The rope I tied the rock to had broken. We go to shore and I find another suitable rock. Tie it on, go back and start to rig my rod. Look up and again we are 200 yards downstream. Lost anhcor number two.In the mean time wife had snagged on the bottom and thought she had a cat. She was "fighting" it the entire time that we floated downstream. So I have to start the motor and try to recover the line she had unspooled. She was snagged good and fireline doesn't break easy, so I got out my trusty piece of broom handle,wrap it around the line and break her off. <br />Once again we head to shore to find anchor number three.<br />That rock broke off too and I lost it (temper tantrum). Said the heck with it,let's head back to the ramp.<br /> I recover the boat and in hooking on the tie downs I find out that I had misplaced the transom saver. Not in the truck,not in the boat. Then I thought,I never removed the transom saver itself from the motor. I had taken the bungee cord off and was ready to take the transom saver off when the wife asks me a question about something. Stand up to answer her and that's the last I remember about the transom saver.Launched the boat I figure with the saver just loose on the lower unit.<br />No fish, motor still messed up,lost transom saver,but I still have the wife. Been married 25 years and she knows me well enough to back off when I get stupid and throw a fit. Yep, I love her and she's the only "keeper" I need
