mellowyellow
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my father's day gift was a day of serious fishing<br />with my cuz. as much as I enjoy fishin/boating<br />with my kids, it's a lot different when you don't<br />have to untangle lines all day and play safety<br />officer.<br />meet him at his house at 6am, we hook up the boat<br />and head to Buffalo small boat harbor to launch.<br />we stop for some bait and my cuz decides to check<br />the weather once more on the vhf.<br />well, he's got ZERO juice from battery. dead as<br />a doornail. come to find out he hasn't even TRIED<br />to start his boat this year. 
<br />he tells me, no worries, I'll just pull start her.<br />yeah right! it's a '79 rude 70hp and hasn't been<br />even turned over since last july/aug. so we put<br />her in and he starts a' pullin....no way it's gonna<br />start with a pull rope. so he decides to go back<br />to his truck and pull the battery. he returns, but<br />he's got a side mount battery. so he "holds" the<br />battery wires againt the contacts and tells me to<br />turn the key (no he didn't get zapped)<br />and believe it or not the motor srarts right up!<br /><br />ended up being one of the best fishing days I've<br />had in years! we caught some really nice smallmouth,<br />the smallest ones being 14" and he lost a monster<br />that had to be 6lbs. we caught about 15 all together.<br />all day I was teasin him, calling him McGiver and<br />givin him hard time about being soooo stupid.<br />we head back in around 3:30 and now it's my turn<br />to be a retard <br />we were putting the boat on the trailer, when I<br />slipped walking the tounge and ended up on my behind<br />in about 3 feet of water LOL<br />got my payback I guess?<br />all in all it was the most fun I've had in years!<br />all's well that ends well I guess....<br />M.Y.
<br />he tells me, no worries, I'll just pull start her.<br />yeah right! it's a '79 rude 70hp and hasn't been<br />even turned over since last july/aug. so we put<br />her in and he starts a' pullin....no way it's gonna<br />start with a pull rope. so he decides to go back<br />to his truck and pull the battery. he returns, but<br />he's got a side mount battery. so he "holds" the<br />battery wires againt the contacts and tells me to<br />turn the key (no he didn't get zapped)<br />and believe it or not the motor srarts right up!<br /><br />ended up being one of the best fishing days I've<br />had in years! we caught some really nice smallmouth,<br />the smallest ones being 14" and he lost a monster<br />that had to be 6lbs. we caught about 15 all together.<br />all day I was teasin him, calling him McGiver and<br />givin him hard time about being soooo stupid.<br />we head back in around 3:30 and now it's my turn<br />to be a retard <br />we were putting the boat on the trailer, when I<br />slipped walking the tounge and ended up on my behind<br />in about 3 feet of water LOL<br />got my payback I guess?<br />all in all it was the most fun I've had in years!<br />all's well that ends well I guess....<br />M.Y.