Our long anticipated yearly boat/camping trip. James and I arrived Sunday evening, just enough time to find a quiet cove and anchor up for the night and watch our DVD. Great evening sunset!

The morning came and I eased us out into the main part of the lake. James was still asleep (6am) so I began casting plugs and jigs to fallen timber and rocky areas. It was quite of tough because I have no electric trolling motor on my seaswirl. After an hour or so of no action I decided to run down to the far end of the lake and explore. I got about 2/3rds of the way and my depth finder lit up with markings at 40-60 ft depth. So I decided to try troll for silvers and trout. Well, not more than 5 minutes into trolling and my motor sputtered and smoked and died. Pretty obvious the water pump went out. So that leaves just my too-fast main motor to troll with. BTW, I would like to thank the angler that tossed me a bottle of his own blue-dyed corn, thanks! He even offered a sea anchor for me to use. We returned to the campgrounds and bought a couple pails which did the trick. Spent the rest of the day either fishing or swimming or napping. Pretty lazy... caught one silver. Only had a few bites. Word from the campground staff was similar for other anglers. Anyway, came home this morning to a ton of stuff to do plus a whole lot of reports to approve! A nice mini-vacation with my son, even if the fishing was dead.

KUP

7/17/2007 10:07:00 PM

A day on the lake with your son?

Priceless.


"Take me fishing"... WTG, Dad!

Rosann G

7/18/2007 3:04:00 PM

Sounds like a wonderful little trip. Sorry to hear about your motor, hope it's an easy fix. It's great that you figured out a way to stay and play with your son.

Mike Carey

7/18/2007 8:00:00 PM

Yup, an easy $1700 fix. New motor. :-) Anyone want a non-running motor for parts or do-it-yourself repair? See the classifieds!

Deadeyemark

7/18/2007 11:51:00 PM

Real sorry to hear about the bad luck with the little motor. Glad ya got out and with your son is great. Mine went alot but he's been in AK for about 6 years now so we don't get together much any more. Take him every chance you get. He'll never forget it and you won't either.
Mark

guyara

7/19/2007 7:01:00 PM

Hey Mike, I, too, have a Seaswirl. A 1978 19' my dad gave me. I got tired of the 15 h kicker problems such as noise, gas and breakdowns. I put a 101lb thrust elect. on my cavitation plate. I'll never go back to a gas kicker again. No noise, fumes or problems (yet). It will push my 19' boat along at about 5mph in calm water. I've trolled in the BIG water at Westport and it's nice to be able to talk to the others with a normal voice. If you have a boat larger than 19' I was told to go to the 202lb. Mine is a 36v system and I got separate solar chargers on each on (like the kind you put on your dash to keep your car batt charged) and I have run all week on just that. I then fully charge them individually at home on the power charger when they are going to set for awhile (God Forbid).

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