Things started out scratchy, on the way down my signal lights on the truck had stopped working, so I pulled off and messed with all the fuses, all was good, continued down the road, got to B&B at 08:58, bought some gold fish, and called a local for guide advise, ended up at a sweet spot on the back water put up the tent and got excited and tried to launch from where I was, the truck ended up getting stuck in soft sand. Well that was when things really started to go north, I realized too late that I had forgotten to put the plug in, also forgot to unhitch the boat at the back, and had the transom rod still attached! the truck was down to the frame, the trailer down to the tongue, I had a shovel in the truck so I tried to dig my way out, no doing... a boater passed by and I asked for help, he was kind and brought his truck and I hooked my tow strap to his hitch, the strap broke without even budging my truck, so I cut the strap into 4 pieces, and he was able to pull me out. The boat had taken on soo much water, that my battery charger, which I had stored in the battery compartment, shorted out, lucky for me I had a spare!
Went out fishing about 18:00 for some red ear, my navigational lights stopped working so I navigated with a flash light. Stayed out till about 24:00 when my feet felt like 2 ice cubes, went back to the camp site, slept till 05:00, went out again for red ear, and ended up hooking my first ever SMB, on a 7/0 circle hook! Go figure! My buddy and I then went to a sand bar to try for catfish, after about 2 hours of nothing, we drifted off the sand bar, going backward, both my lines ended up tangled, once I finally got everything straight, my buddy calls out "Monster Cat" I cast out, and instantly my line was going up current, I tried to keep up with my trolling motor, but I was not even able to even keep still, my buddy got on the main motor, and I was reeling like crazy, (Circle hook so no swinging on the fish), finally I could not gain any line and none was going out... Got rocked, lost 12 oz of lead and the 7/o circle hook!
Well I had a blast, I can't wait to get back out again really soon!