Walnut Report

[skinny5382]

Steve sounds like you have things working for you, great news.

I started Sunday about 6:30 over near the Ohio line, 2 stripe bass was all. Decided at 9:30 to change it up and relocate over to the condo's. Beginning of a very stressful day.
Boat stalled and wouldn't start, tossed out the anchor to have a look. After 2 hours decided the starter was shot and I needed help. Picked up the cell to call BoatUS, no signal. Worked on the starter another hour, no bringing it back to live. "dead"! Got on the radio to relay a message using a closer boat, nothing - no response. Put out the distress flag, checked my position to make sure I wasn't drifting. Noticed my electronics were shutting down, recorded North / West before going out completely.
Gave the starter another look, another 2 hours pass. Starting to go into survivor mode, 1/2 bag of trail mix left along with 1/2 bottle of Gatorate.
I haven't mentioned yet I tried 16 Coast Guard about a dozen times by now. Come to find out later the signal was very weak and broken, CG couldn't hear me. As a last resort I disconnected everything from the batteries but the radio. that did the trick, I could now have conversation with CG. Long story shortened, an Ashtabula CG boat was in the area and towed me to Conneaut. Hate to see this bill.
So what a Sunday fishing trip! Never did find the Eye's

Hats off to the Coast Guard, top shelf group of people.