Fishing Forum

[font "Times New Roman"]We started up the canyon to Strawberry for a much needed fishing trip. We pulled into the McDonalds in Heber for the normal egg McMuffin before continuing on the lake. That is when we heard the screeching rim. We checked out the noise and the leaning tire. The bearing was gone and the axle was bent. Yes, it was 6 AM on a Sunday in Heber City, guess how many tire and axle shops are open at that time. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Pulled the boat to the local police station where an awesome officer let us park the boat for the night. We thought we would wait for Checker to open to get some tools and pull things apart to asses the damage. Went back to McDonalds to sit down and eat while waiting. Came back out and guess where the keys to the truck were, ya right in the center console with the doors locked. We had to call our new officer friend a second time for him to Slim Jim the door. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Went back to the boat and pulled the hubs and saw the bent axel. No help for us with that. We decided that we had come this far and would continue on to the fishing hole. We figured bank fishing was better than no fishing.[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Got to the lake and packed our gear down the hill to the water. Set things up and Jake caught a small planter rainbow on the first cast. I set out several crawdad traps then got my poles ready. I caught one nice rainbow and that was it for the day. The rest of the day was spent cleaning up hundreds of crawdads. Those things were everywhere!![/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]We headed back to the boat to empty it out and measure the axel, pulled the prop off the boat because we just don’t trust people. My buddy threw the prop in the truck right on top of my new Buzz Ramsey fishing pole and broke the tip off my $100 rod.[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Made it back home and then headed back up this morning with a new axle only to arrive and try to put it on with no avail. The shop gave us the wrong size axle. So back down the canyon to get the right one. Finally back up the canyon and the boat is safely at home. One expensive fishing trip. At least we did not loose the wheel on the road at 70 MPH.[/font]
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Sounds like a trip you will remember for awhile.
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Anyone who owns a boat has either already had a trip like that...or will have a trip like that!

Including me. Hopefully my trip(s) like that are BEHIND me!

Randy
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Too bad about your fishing pole. At least that Roy City cop didn't take off part of your finger! []
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ouch, glad you turned your frown upside down.... you must have a badass camera because those pics look great
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[frown] I feel for you buddy! The same thing happened to me last november, same thing, same place. Only thing different was I was heading home at 7:00 at night and LOST the wheel about a mile before you hit the first stop light in Heber on a Sunday. I have a dual axle trailer and only had 1" clearance after mounting the spare tire.( fender sliced the other tire when the wheel came off.) I had to have the trailer and boat towed on a large flat bed to SLC to get repaired. Glad you got it fixed in a timely manner.
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That really sucks, reminds me i need to do some preventative maintance, like gease tighten my wheel bearings on the trailor. Hopefully we will be able to catch some fish on the snake in a couple of days to make up for it.
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After this nightmare trip the snake river better be much better tommorrow [cool]

Sounds like I'm not the only one that has had a bad trip with a boat[:/] I know another trailer that will be getting new bearings this year!!!
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That trip sounds familiar!! My buddy had a trailer that liked to eat bearings. Once a year we were on the side of the road tearing a wheel off changing bearings! It got to the point where he just brought all the tools and parts with us for the road side change. It was never fun on the side of the road in the middle of the night, but we sure made a hell of a lot of good memories during those changes!! I feel your pain!!
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