Fun weekend at the Gorge!!!

[BiteMe]

I totally forgot you were going to be up there this weekend. Troublemaker, Jazz & myself were up there also. I probably saw you in passing. What does your boat look like? It's not a tannish/yellowish/creamish tri-hull is it? We had some boat problems ourselves. We got the big boat out for the first time this year. It fired right up, but soon had that hot smell coming from the engine compartment. The temp guage was showing it as cool. We suspected it wasn't pumping any water. We pulled a hose to check, and sure enough no water. It turned out to be the impellor was shot. Pretty common for Volvo outdrives, after sitting for the winter, we found out. Anyway we had to pull the big boat out, and go back to the cabin and get the good ole reliable small boat. We probably lost close to 2 hours of calm water. After we got through our boat problems we ended up boating 4 macks. Toublemaker had the hot hand. He got a 10, 15 & 25 lber. Jazz picked up a 10 lber. I ended up with 0 macks, but did catch a few nice spawner rainbows (2-3 lbs. & lots of makeup on)after TM & Jazz left for home. We were fishing side by side with Kyle, from Conquest. He & Bruce both had clients coming in on Saturday, so he was doing a little scouting. He said he got a 5, 12 & 26 lber. I heard one other guy talking at the marina that said they had gotten two 20 lbers before they got blown off. "WIND" was the mainstay for most of the trip. We got blown off pretty early, except for Friday when it held off until about 1:00/1:30. For the amount of actual fishing time we got in, we, or should I say TM & Jazz did pretty well. We marked a lot of fish on the bottom, which is quite a contrast from 2 weeks ago when TM & Jazz were up there. Even though we had our share of problems, it was good to get out on the Gorge again.
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