Re: Happy day, sold my boat


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Posted by KenaiGary [65.74.48.28] on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 19:59:41 :

In Reply to: Re: Happy day, sold my boat posted by Jerry in Idaho [69.59.83.175] on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 21:16:12 :

Another funny boat story: when we lived in Colorado in the 1980s we had access to a great hunting cabin located at 9,000 ft in the Sangre de Cristos in Southcentral CO outside of Westcliff. Good elk and deer hunting, but really rugged. We frequently hunted up to 11,000'.

One summer we decided to combine a flatland fishing venture and trip to the cabin. Loaded my 12' Jon boat into the bed of my truck, put all the gear in the boat for a 3-day trip. Had some great fishing and then headed to the mountains. Getting to the cabin was about four miles virtually straight uphill on a 4-wheel drive trail. In hunting season we had to chain up all four and winch in three places because of the snow so you have an idea of what it's like.

Got half way up the first pass, the ropes holding the truck busted and the boat launched out the back and onto the trail. That place was so steep you could hardly standup. We blocked the truck up, unloaded the gear from the boat, loaded the boat back on the truck, reloaded the gear and secured the boat and made it to the cabin six hours later--many beers were consumed that night.

I had bought the boat when I was 14 and used it to fish for bass. When I bought it, it was already 20 years old and it came with a late model 1940s 9 hp Evinrude. After countless patches, I finally had to scrap it in 2002 before we came back to Alaska. That boat had served me and the previous owner almost 60 years and it fished with me in seven different states and Canada. As an idiot 16 year old, my buddy and I used to take it into Chesapeake Bay and fish for flounder and weakfish, and clam. Yes, using that old Evinrude.



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