First Trip of '07

Well we did not make it out for winter flounder opening day but we did make it out for day two. This will be the first time in many years that I have not gone out on opening day. I did not hear any great reports from yesterday and figured I would start out in the bay. We tried all our usual spots and could not put a bite together. After talking to a buddy on the radio we decided to head for the river. We setup in the river and had the same results...no bite. After that we decided to make a bold move and try the inlet figuring that if the fish are there and we are not in the right spot maybe they are on their way out and closer to the inlet. Not even a nibble in the inlet, plus the wind was against the tide making anchoring a chore. We then decided to head back up river and give that one more shot but when setting up on anchor lost forward gear. After several minutes of trying to get back into forward I was getting ready to call Sea\\Tow but just as I was about to hail them got the boat into gear and decided to head back to the barn. That ended up being a good call because after getting back to the slip I was not able to get back into forward after backing in, actually had to stop the reverse motion manually because I had no forward to pop into to slow the boat. Shortly after cleaning up it started to rain anyway so heading in was probably the right thing to do anyway. Hopefully the Volvo dealer was right when they said it is not a big job to fix and with some luck they will be able to work on it this week and have me ready for next weekend.