08-06-2003, 03:30 AM
We left last Tues. morning 6 am drove 285 miles east stopped a couple times for gas and "BEER"arrived at Green River Lakes Wyo.set up camp had several beers and talked the wife into putting the boat in the water and going for a little stroll and checkin on some of my old hot spots,I marked several fish at 75' so I hooked on a flat fish sent it down on the rigger and put another on leaded line and started to troll. About 5 minutes later my old trusty 7.5 merc started making all sorts of racket,squealing and hissing and steaming then it killed!!Oh F$%#!! We realed up and I tolled the wife "if" it starts im going to go ball's out for the shore about 3/4 of a mile,after a few pulls it started and I hit the gas and headed for shore and she locked up about 200 yds short so we used the trusty old oars to make it in thank god the wind was not blowing!! Then I said to myself "great"7 days up here and no motor!
After drinking on it all night I pulled the plugs in the morning and put a shot of oil in each cylinder and after 2 pulls it started!!I took it back to the water and did a little messing around with it and found that the water pump would only pump water if you were half throttle or more,so I ran it the rest of the week,trolling was out of the question but it worked just fine for jigging,bummer huh"NOT" I dont think them fish up there have ever been jigged before,we put a hurtin on those macks,we cought a boat load every time out except 1 day when it rained. all fish were 17-25"and cought in 75' using 3/4oz.tubes with frozen chubs"smith&edwards".The weather was great low 80s in the day and it was a cold 26 thismorning, but was a great trip!!"BIG FISH STILL RULE"M.H.[
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After drinking on it all night I pulled the plugs in the morning and put a shot of oil in each cylinder and after 2 pulls it started!!I took it back to the water and did a little messing around with it and found that the water pump would only pump water if you were half throttle or more,so I ran it the rest of the week,trolling was out of the question but it worked just fine for jigging,bummer huh"NOT" I dont think them fish up there have ever been jigged before,we put a hurtin on those macks,we cought a boat load every time out except 1 day when it rained. all fish were 17-25"and cought in 75' using 3/4oz.tubes with frozen chubs"smith&edwards".The weather was great low 80s in the day and it was a cold 26 thismorning, but was a great trip!!"BIG FISH STILL RULE"M.H.[
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] Sounds like the little bit o' trouble was well worth it. Where are the Green river lakes at though? ive never heard of em'