Messed up day!

[Phil from Maine]

I decided to take my canoe out for a fishing trip today and what a messed up day it became. First I lugged my canoe into my trout fishing, place mission accomplished.. Tried my luck on the trout but they choose not to bite very good. I caught 1 small one I threw back. Then worked my way upstream and got some decent pics of the place, but that was about it. On my way back downstream I decided to call the wife but my cell phone was missing..[:@] That right there made my day.. As I was working my way back to the truck, ( I was looking for my cell phone all the way back ) I slipped and fell on a stump. I didn't think to much of it. When I got to my truck I had a flat tire. When I was fixing that I felt a sharp pain in my side all of a sudden. So I lifted my shirt to take a look and had a small piece of the stump embedded in the side of my hip. I went ahead and fixed the tire and drove home. every friggen bump I was able to feel.[>:] After getting home I realized that the piece stuck in me wasn't all that bad so I pulled it out. It was a splinter about 1/4 inch thick and about an inch long.. OW! It was great to get that thing out of me.. Now that it is done I am setting back laughing at myself because getting out there and enjoying a little fishing with bad luck and all is still a great day to be out there.. Maybe my next time out the fish will be biting and things will work out more smoothly. Until then enjoy the great out doors.. I will be as soon as I can!

[buckhunter14]

Phil, bad days are tough but they sure make good days all the better.

Hope you next outing goes better. Good luck my friend.

[Chuck7]

WOW..sorry to hear that Jigger..[8D]

[Phil from Maine]

Thanks buckhunter and C7, I will be out soon enough you can count on that. Besides I will not let a splinter no matter what size it is put me down.. It still is a little soar which can be expected but I can get by with that one.. For as far as that truck tire goes it is time for new ones anyways so i will most likely replace the set of them. the last Time I replaced the tires was when Firestone had a recall on them so i took my ford in and replaced them all.. So I can't realy complain about that much it i just makes a day go sour sort to speak that is all..

[m.t.hands]

hey phil thanks for making me feel better, and i thought i had a bad day saturday[:-]

here was my day

i had to utilize of bunch of items from the book yesterday, second fish of the day i have hooked, rod breaks and the fish gets enough slack to leave the country, then proceed to loose 3 more fish, i broke off another then the wife breaks one off, then it rains, my hands are wet, and whoa la, rod gets yanked out of my hand[:-][&o][:@], the wind is blowing 20 mph and i'm trying to "chase" my rod thru the water with the now almost dead trolling motor, so i watch rod number two leave the scene, to never be seen again (by me anyway) somebody will be happy, oh yea i dredged the area for about an hour, with a deep diving crankbait, did catch a 3 pounder to add to the creel, but he didn't have a rod hooked to him[&o][:-][:@], we didn't get a check[&o] and had a small limit for guntersville, but like the guy on the ice cream commercial says when his wife ask how his day was after a terrible day and he just says "turned out good"...our day still turned out good

we caught a bunch of fish, and saw a pair of bald eagles, and fished with a really good group of people,so it really wasn't that bad, even though i was sick about loosing the rod[&o], i'll be fishing for it soon, maybe i'll get it back[&:]

[Phil from Maine]

Thanks m.t. I had a nice ugly stick that I bought for the wife once. I decided to take it along fishing for white perch. I put a live bait on it jus in case some thing would hit it. I was using worms on my other rod and looked back just in time to see the wifes rod I was using go sailing over board. I went back the next day and pactically drag the whole lake bottom trying to recover it. I couldn't find it no where. what I used was a steelt ring with what looked like trebble hooks on it without any barbs. Drag the area for quite some time but to no avail..[:@] Needless to say I went out and bought the wife another new rod.[>:] I hope you have better luck getting yours back. I have had the same luck ice fishing with jig sticks. Whooooosh down the hole they go on me when I turn my back. I am getting better at keeping them above ice now that I have had 3 or 4 of them disapear on me..

[Gangly]

Boy, ya'll both had some stinker days, lol. Sorry to hear about that, but like mentioned above, it makes the good days that much better. Better luck next time guys!