I'm fine.  I have another minor operation scheduled in October to  
tweek my plumbing, and if  that goes well, I will be pretty much the  
same as I was before the surgery (just a little extra gear added)!

I haven't posted much out of laziness more than anything else.  Plus I  
didn't have a lot to say.  I spent a good deal of my summer trying to  
get my new boat to actually run, in fact we had the first fully  
successful run last night!   We nick-named her the "Hell-bitch" after  
Captain Call's famous horse (from the movie Lonesome Dove),  like the  
horse, the motor is touchy, but fast when it gets going, it will  
cruise at about 45 mph which probably isn't particularly fast for a  
bass boat, but  fast enough for me.  It is an older boat, a 1990  
Ranger with a 150 HP 1996 Evinrude  engine (2 stroke).  It needed  
about $650.00 in carb work and a little trial and error to finally get  
it  to run properly.  I have to ride the choke or have someone pump  
the fuel ball when bringing it up to speed on a cold start or it will  
stall during the initial acceleration.  It  probably will need  a new  
fuel pump eventually, but I'm going to live with the work around for  
now. Once it gets up to speed and warmed up, it works great.

I did do some fishing at Hebgen Lake (my first time) I stayed at  a  
nice little private campground on the Madison arm.  Get ready by 8:00  
am, carry the pontoon boat 30 feet, and your in the water.  For two or  
three hours each morning I had pretty steady action stripping tandem  
BHPT nymphs, (the "Gulpers" never got going for dry fly fishing), but  
the fish were there, feeding in the weed beds.  The biggest problem I  
had was break-offs, I think I landed only 1 fish for every five I  
hooked!  They are big fish and easy to break off with the 5x tippet I  
was using, since they were smart enough to dive for the weed beds.

Tom


On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Neville Gosling wrote:

>
>
> HI Tom:
>
> I haven't seen a post from you in a long time. How are you doing  
> since your
> ordeal that started last December? It is good to see that you are  
> still
> posting.
>
> Neville (Nev) Gosling
> Greater Vancouver
> BC  Canada
>
>
> >


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