5/11/2015

[techo]

We didn't get going until late, but was still cloudy when we started. We put in at Aunt's Creek.. I love that place. The nice old fella is manning the shack at the entry and always friendly.

It seems to have grown in popularity since I last fished though. We turned right out of Aunts Creek. Fished a cove and caught a couple of shorts on top water. One on red fin one on Sammy. Clouds disappeared and so did the bite. Headed up lake and caught a white bass, a gar and several K's. A few on shaky, most on green fire tiger square bill. The gar broke my treble hook.

Returned to Aunt's Creek and loaded the boat. I heard a loud noise coming from the boat area. I stopped and all of my lug nuts on both trailer wheels were loose. Luckily I had a tire iron ready as I had just had a valve stem replaced on one of the tires and had just put it back on. Seemed odd every nut on both wheels were loose especially as I had just put one tire back on...but maybe I am just paranoid.

Back at it tomorrow!

[Donna G]

Returned to Aunt's Creek and loaded the boat. I heard a loud noise coming from the boat area. I stopped and all of my lug nuts on both trailer wheels were loose. Luckily I had a tire iron ready as I had just had a valve stem replaced on one of the tires and had just put it back on. Seemed odd every nut on both wheels were loose especially as I had just put one tire back on...but maybe I am just paranoid.

Back at it tomorrow!

There's a legend they tell in this here parts of a ghostly fisherman who's very, very protective of Aunt's Creek. I bet he's the one that loosened your lug nuts. It was probably a warning, like the creepy crawly spooky ones you hear in the wee hours of the morning ... nothing to see here, move along followed by maniacal laughter and old trailer chains clanking.

[techo]

Donna,

were you guys out today?

[Quillback]

I remember that several years ago, Johnny Morris bought some surplus monkeys from the Springfield zoo. His plan was to train them to do routine tasks at the Basspro boat repair facility in Springfield. He figured they could be trained to do routine tasks like backing trailers, changing tires, etc. He'd save on labor cost and tools as monkeys are incredibly strong for their size and have powerful fingers and can do things with their hands like loosen lug nuts.

Well, last year one of those monkeys climbed the fence and disappeared into the woods. It was last seen in the vicinity of Aunts creek.

Now there are reports of loosened tire lugs and missing trailer parts at the Aunts creek launch.

Draw your own conclusions.

I hear you can bribe it to leave your trailer alone by leaving a bunch of bananas on the hood of your vehicle.

[Champ188]

Now that's funny I don't care who you are.

[Donna G]

We weren't out Monday. I swear, we did not touch your lug nuts. We were working Monday. We golfed Saturday and went to TR Sunday.

[dtrs5kprs]

Don't you just hate it when your stuff gets monkeyed with...

Glad you did not have a problem. Seems odd for all of them to work loose at once.

[techo]

Except for the gar and lug nuts, today was almost a carbon copy of yesterday. The daughter was willing to go with. We put in at Cape Fair and not a lot of trash in the water but some...back to old stomping grounds tomorrow.

[rps]

Glad you are getting days on the water.

[flyrod17]

Need to park your trailer in the same spot and hide in the bushes with a pellet rifle, "monkey ambush"