No wallies at Willard

[TubeDude]

Okay, now I don't feel so bad.  I powered out in the sloppy chop and headed for the area that treated me well last week.  But was not seeing the fish like I had before.  Oh well, might as well wash some lures while I looked.  So I put on a couple of my new experimental chatter bait crawler rigs and started bouncing around in the waves as I watched the rod tips vibrating with the chatter baits. 


Within only about 10 minutes, the rod with the fire tiger chatter went bendo and I had killed the skunk early.  But it was not a walleye.  Only a cat.  Still, it was a fish...the only one for the day. 



When I tried to turn my electric motor back on to resume fishing I got nothing.  Several minutes of messing around and checking what connections I could reach while in my tube on the water didn't provide a fix.  I was literally dead in the water...well over a half mile out from the marina entrance.   And I was faced with having to kick my way back in with fin power alone.  It\s been a long time since I had to operate my tube for any distance with just the fins.  And I ain't getting any younger.  But the "zephyr" was blowing in to the shore at a westerly angle so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.  Took me well over an hour to get back to the ramp, but I made it.  I think.  Back in my garage, I checked all the wiring and connections...hoping I didn't have to buy a new motor...or get a replacement on my new lithium battery.  The good news/bad news is that one of the connections to the battery had been broken in the bouncy twisty motions on the rough water.  But it made for a short day.

Since you posted a couple of pics that include my craft, I'll return the favor.