WARNING!!!! The boat ramp at Goose Pond has a HUGE hole/drop at the end of the ramp. XOMan and I got out to do a little fishing yesterday morning only to have it turn into a 17 hour fiasco! It all started at 0400 on the ramp at Goose Pond. Putting the boat in the water, the trailer fell into the hole at the end of the ramp. Trying to get the trailer out of the hole, we sheared the axle to the trailer off right at the wheel housing. Well with no one around we managed to drag the broken trailer back up into the parking lot and decided to go fishing until we could get a hold of someone at the marina to help out.

Got on the water before the sun came up and managed to put 21 nice fish in the live well before having to leave to get the boat trailer fixed after our mishap at the ramp. Every fish we caught was a keeper, no shorts. BG blue ice, and monkey milk were the colors for us using 1/24 and 1/32 jig heads. They wanted a real slow presentation and just a steady retreive. Sometimes you'd feel the thump and sometimes they were just there.

While trying to get tied to the bridge, I also managed to loose my cell phone in the lake. Well, if that wasn't just more fun to the day at hand.

We got back to the marina and they had a used trailer that XOMan wound up buying. They were great and helped us out a bunch! When we were talking to the guy at the marina he said we were about the 12th person to drop an axel or destroy their trailer on that ramp in the past year. Apparently all the big bass boats when putting their boats back on the trailers have washed out a huge hole at the end of the ramp and if you go too far down the ramp (now marked by yellow poles), you're in that hole.

So we got the boat on the new trailer and hauled everything back to Madison and picked up my truck and then headed to XOMan's place to drop boat and new trailer then headed to TN to get another flatbed trailer to go back to Goose Pond and retrieve the broken trailer from the parking lot. Got there and two guys were getting ready to head out and they gave us a hand to get the broken trailer up onto the flatbed trailer. Thanks guys, that was huge last night. Hope you caught a livewell full! Then is was back to Harvest to drop the trailers at XOMan's place.

Man those were some tough 21 fish yesterday. Finally walked back in the door to the house at 2045 last night. Needless to say I was whipped by the end of this one.