That’s the brakes: Headed to Clinton Lake early Saturday morning with a cool overcast start to the day. All seemed well as I headed out for the day. I had hooked the boat up the night before so all I had to do was climb in and go. I made it to Greg’s house without any problems, and then on to the lake.
That’s when the fun began….
Geared up and ready to go, we were on the way down ramp when I checked the trolling motor to make sure it was ready to go, and of course it wasn’t. I signaled to hold up on the bath and take us back up the hill out of the wind so we could diagnose the problem. Well after a long and task filled session in Arnies parking lot, we finally got the trolling motor working up to par.
Unfortunately at the same time the TM was fixed the brakes on the trailer were discover to be….You guessed it F#$@’ed up!
That’s still in progress as we speak, because now I have figured out that the trailer has Metric brake lines. Apparently O’reilly’s only has standard sizes in flare tools, that just don’t seem to fit this metric one very well. Another trip to Autozone tomorrow and hopefully the gentleman on the phone wasn’t BS’n and truly does have one there. Guess we will find out tomorrow I will swing by there when I am dropping off the blown tire off at the shop.
All bad things come in threes as we all know. We had a very small incident with the trolling motor when we were actually fishing, and a comment was made “Maybe that was #3”.
Nope.
About 11pm last night 45 miles from home Boom! Blow out.
ksbigbass
Then the fun begins all over again. I had placed a “Gun lock” on my spare to keep you hooligans from stealing it. All that did was Piss me off ! Even with the lock hanging upside down it still managed to bind from the rust. AAARRRGGGHHH! Greg had a cool head and a pair of pliers and a determination like no other, 20 mins later he had that POS lock off and thrown into the darkness all while letting out a ceremonious yell of Triumph! Success!
Tip: Don’t use a gun lock on your spare tire.
ksbigbass
OK….. “Let’s get that blown tire off…”
Replace your trailer tires
At this point I would like to Thank one of the KS Highway Patrol. If it wasn’t for him stopping and loaning us that floor jack, my wife would still not be speaking to me for making her drive 2hrs to rescue us. All we had was the little bottle jack out of the truck and a rock that was about an inch to small.
All in all, we made it home safely, and that is the important part.
That Highway Patrol Man that stopped and helped was having a night similar to ours. He was heading home after helping our sorry butts out, or at least he thought he was. About 2 miles up the road he had pulled over to help out a car in the ditch, guess he was gonna have a long night too.
Fishing is always a learning experience, sometimes on the water and sometimes just trying to get there.