This was a historic day for us. My 8 year old daughter and I took the maiden voyage in my new 12' Porta-Bote folding boat, on Green Lake. After figuring out how to put it together in the backyard, I managed to lash it to the top of the wagon and get to the lake. Drug all the stuff to the shore, put it together, and launched from the shell rowing boat house on the SW end. This in itself was big for me having never owned a boat. Fired up the electric motor and off we went. Must not have kept the battery charged up enough as it was showing 3/4 juice in the meter, so I decided to troll close to the launch point. It was cold and cloudy.

Had a bigish orange and silver kastmaster on which did not produce any action, so switched to a small chartruese roostertail., no weights or swivels A few minutes later, pulled in a little 6" trout. Kept in the same area, a touch up the west shore from boat houses/docks. Five minutes later, the pole gets slammed good, and a nice fight ensues with a 16" triploid -- what a thrill. After 45 minutes on the water, it began to rain, and we headed in.

It was great fishing for 45 minutes in the new vessel! Thought of christening it was a can of vitamin R, but held back. And the digital camera was out of juice :(.