It was a nice morning and I couldn't sleep anyway so I thought I go fishing down the road at Horseshoe lake, about 8 miles from home. Hit the lake literally at the crack of dawn. I untied the boat, backed it down the ramp, removed the winch cable and eased it off the trailer. I beached it and parked the GMC and went down to the boat to start my morning of fishing but the entire back end of the boat was underwater. I ran up got the Jimmy and tied the boats front tie-down rope to the back of the trailer and hauled it up on the beach and drained all the water out. I then put the drain plug in and using the front of the Jimmy I pushed it back into the water. SSSCCCRRRAAAAPPPEEEE!!!SSCCEEAAACCCHHH!!! Sure am glad I bought an aluminium boat. Nothing hurt except my pride, no witnesses, so I can deny the thing. I caught a pair of two pounders and saw a lot more but they were all on the move. a few beds are starting to appear but nobody is at home yet. I did catch a lot of future trophies, one was exactly the same length as the Rapala f-11 silver I was using. Both bigger bass came on plastics, one on a green bleeding tube and the other a dark green 5" cigar shaped worm. After about 4 hours a fly fisherman showed up and everytime I looked over at him he was playing a rainbow so I stopped watching. when I pulled out at Noon two more boats were launching. That's about as crowded as the lake gets, anywhere from 0 to 3 or 4 boats max. There are always fish to be had but you have hunt for them as there isn't a lot of cover or structure to the lake. Still, it was a great day, I got to go fishing and that is always great. Remember the drain plug though, a boat full of water weighs a lot, take my word for it.

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