02-15-2010, 10:00 AM
The 13th lived up to it&#39;s billing today for me and wiskers. I was up at 4 and could not go back to sleep. Finally met up with wiskers at 7:15 and drove to the G. Went to Jackson County park, launched the boat and set down to start her up. All she would do was growl. emoBang Click, growl, click, growl, over and over. I thought the battery was bad and it was less then a year old. emoAngry Drove to Wally World and got another. Hooked it all up and same results. emoMad Took that one off and hooked up one of my big trolling motor batteries and still the same results. emoMad Tried to call some folks and no one we could reach knew any more then we did. No choice but to either just troll or go home. We decided to go home. emoDoh Finally got hold of someone who knew that engine and he told us the starter sounded as if it was going out.<br /><br /> emoBadLanguage <br /><br />Drove Wiskers to his car in Ooltewah and just for the heck of it I turned the key and she sputtered. I turned her again and she started up in the parking lot. emoGoofy I went to the Chick to try her and she worked well. Was still a little slow about starting so it may still need to be replaced. I thought since I was there I might as well fish a little. It was 11 when I started and I fished for three hours till two. I boated three bass, all on jerk baits and four big slab crappie and a huge bream. They all were on a crappie assassin on a 1/32 oz head. Water was 39 to 43 depending on where you were. What a day. I felt we spent most of the day in the dang truck driving. emoCrazy Jmax