I thought that I'd present the counter point to Coach B's post. It could actually be titled " An Awful Summer"
Memorial day weekend was great. We caught some lmb up to 21 inch, nice eating sized crappie were darn near jumping into the boat, and the water was as clear as I've ever seen it. I'd planted some trees around the pond and built some new docks. My new TH feeder was working flawlessly.
A few days later we got heavy rain and some very strong winds. One of my new docks was crashed against the shore and my boat, the S.S. Caulky was swept out to sea and apparently sunk, as it couldn't be seen anywhere. The waves were high enough to throw FA on top of the cage that covers the overflow pipe which is about five feet higher than normal water level. The feeder was completely soaked, it was full of feed, and the timer ruined.
It's not much fun cleaning 50 pounds of soaked fish feed out of a feeder, especially after the flies have gotten to it, but I did so and ordered a new timer. I also bought a $250 boat to replace Caulky, because I badly needed to go out and spray coontail. The next week or so the weather was either rainy or windy or I had something else I had to do. I did manage to get the feeder running again before leaving on vacation.
Then on July 15th we had a replay. 2.5 inches of rain and high winds. It tore out another piece of dock though by some miracle the section with the feeder on it was spared. It did however soak the feeder again, though this time the timer was okay. On the bright side, the pond managed to regurgitate the SS Caulky, non the worse for the wear.
So, since the middle of June I've fished one day, lost a bunch of docks and cleaned out a maggot infested feeder twice. The water remains muddy and the coontail is growing unabated.
Gotta go, I'm going to go out and dig some holes for footings for some new tsunami proof docks.
