Port Sheldon B4K Tournament

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Had the mechanic get the boat running and against his advice took it out, even though I and the crew knew full well the coupler was trashed.  Boat fired up and ran great, did not over heat, managed to avoid the weed bombs all over the lake.

Got to the end of the pier motored up and it spun.  We could make 5 mph and Wild at Heart was kind enough to offer a tow if needed so we decided to chug out.  40 minutes later we got to where wecwsnted to be.  One of the crew is a sailor and I'm an engineer so we reckoned a plan that would put us at the dock on time.

Fish finder also decided to puke only to slowly come to life at about 10 am, so we set up at the buoy.

First hot a huge 4# king in the white spinny green fly, huge as it did not trip the diver.  Then a miss in the glow green dolphin on the other wire.  Good hook up on the white spinny again, fought like a big laker, 19.4# king.  Then a 2# brown on the Michigan berry on the full core.  Turned at 8:15 on time and headed back south.  Big rip on the glow wonderbread on the 300 copper.

And then it happened.  200 copper with the bloody nose got ripped so hard we soon lost sight of the board.  Pulled the junk lines and circled it, ruining our timing.  Got it to the leader, this fish was HUUGE! and then it was gone.  Bummer.

Ended up at the pier right at the poker run.  That was cool.  At 4.5 mph.

Had a heck of a time at the dock with the boat handling, thanks to the guys in the Sea Ray and Holiday that gave me room and let me cut in line.

Same as last year we had the fish to win but didn't get them all.  Congrats to Coralee on another high finish.

 

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Remembered how much I love the Four Winns and will find the $ ( $$$$$$$$$ I'm afraid) to get her fixed.  Until then, back to the 14'.

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It's been very cool watching your fishing partner grow from toddler to young lady.  She had the hot hand on raffle tickets again!

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Last year she lost her mojo - actually it went to another crew member of ours that hit on three of his five tickets compared to one of our 28.  This year she had it back going 3/30.

Did you know I'm not even allowed to touch the tickets anymore?

The middle daughter would rather dunk worms than troll but my little boo kept opening the cooler and looking at the fish.  Hopefully a good sign.