Off topic: Hope everyone had a good 4th. I did.
I went fishing on a small fishing boat my daughter and I bought together. 2nd time out. Our schedules don't mess very well. Well needless to say, I have to learn everything. So we are learning together. Neither of us has ever done this with the motor, 1st time out we only had trolling motor. BUT WE SURVIVED!!!!! I'm slowly getting my "sea legs". She caught 3 Northern Pike and I caught 2 Northern Pike. We kept the last one (I caught it-25") Largest was 34" that she caught. OMG we had major adrenaline highs. I think alot people laughed, hearing us scream jump, back up and try to pull these into the boat and the first one jumped out of net back into water. They got TEETH. Anyway, I fileted my first northern last night too. YUK!!!!!!!!!!!! but I did it. (No I didn't touch it, I used needle nose to hold it, and it was dead when I started).
So I had alot of firsts yesterday :-0
1st time driving boat (hold hit dock once trying to leave, got it stuck too), motor kept stalling--wish I was in on the "quick learning lesson" in my garage earlier....We didn't open the gas air line LMAO
1st Northern Catch
1st Northern cleaning and filet
1st time backing boat into my garage (trunk of my truck is scrapped up), was watching where but forgot to watch trunk-it was open. Daughter forgot to watch it too lol.) Took 25 minutes this time, last time I backed a trailer in my driveway it took 3 hours.
1st pull over by DNR - And last but not least, on our way back we got stopped by the DNR (fish police). Showed our license, got a hard time (they were funning around), scared crap out of daughter said one of us had to go to jail cause we didn't have a fire extinguisher on board. I think she almost peed her pants til she realized they were joking. I was stunned but then saw the smirk and please for a fire extinguisher so I volunteered LOL. She told me on way home she thought they were serious and was hoping I would volunteer LMAO.
Ok done. Enough off topic, sorry, but was AWESOME day and SOOOOOO much fun, I just had to share.
Soo awesome day!!!