This last Sunday I was to meet two other guys at 4am to go to PtD. I hooked the Explorer to the boat and pulled out from the boat port at 3:50am and noticed a fender clearance light was out. So I went to change it with the lights on so I could see, the positive wire hit the fender, arced, and shorted the converter box leaving me no running lights. I then had to park the boat in the street since the driveway is too sloped to leave the boat and get the truck hooked up and swap all the gear. I am leaving the driveway at 4:15 am as my wife is looking out the window because the "new guy" called the house to make sure I hadn't forgot to wake up. Last time he'll do that!!

We get to Pt. D, and out by 5:30, perfect! We get a huge takedown an hour later, give the rod to the "new guy" and the fish pulls a few times and is lost. (TIP UP, TIP UP!) We go in to drop one guy off at the ramp at 9:30, and so on the way back out I decide to drop my new crab pot over at Quarter Master Harbor. Just bought it the day before. I put a new down rigger ball in the trap for weight and off we go to fish. After trolling for about 5 more hours with nothing but dogfish, we decide to call it a day. Go to get the crab trap, grap the float with the hook, the hook opens the .99c snap link that connects the rope and the rope promptly sinks to the bottom-it is properly weighted just like the regs require. $50 on the bottom. OK, lesson learned. Don't use cheesy hardware. I can only laugh and we go take the boat out.

On the way home, the alternator on the truck is not charging, and the truck dies in the driveway, thank God! A wire had come off. I decide yesterday to try to recover the crap trap by dragging ropes with grappling type hooks on the downriggers, hoping to snag the rope-I remember about where it was. Setting out a downrigger, and cable snaps and another ball is on the bottom. We make many passes in perfectly calm water, and do not snag the trap. Drug some other guys trap about 50 feet or so, but do not find mine. So we decide to fish for the last hour of light to no avail. Upon arriving home, the truck is dead again. Wire came loose, thanks to DOT for the rough assed roads.

So, total looses include a $40 wire harness on the Explorer, about $60 in crab trap, rope, cheesy hardware and two DR balls.

To top it all off moles are tearing up the yard, keep foiling my traps, the little *******s!!