Spruce Run 9/21: The Good-The Bad-The Ugly:

[AndyS]

The Good: Hit Spruce Run as the sun was going down with Wilson Friday night. 9.9 Evinrude ran fine, depth finder worked fine, finally blew the dust off of both of these. Weather was great, nice and calm, lotsa stars. Anchored up in the main like and put the light down. It didn't take long before we had alot of herring flipping and zipping around the light. Chucked big lures into the darkness and drowned worms on the bottom but found no love.

The Bad: What is with the water levels in this place. You couldn't use the paved launch but had to go along side of the ramp and use a large dirt area.
No weed beds. Only 2 other boats on the lake that night.

The Ugly: Turned off the depth finder and headed for the ramp around 11pm or so. I had one of the worst headaches in my life, thought I was going to toss my dinner it was so bad. The place is DARK and this was my first time boating there. We start heading in toward what was the area of the boat ramp and next thing ya know I am banging my prop along the bottom kicking up rocks and mud, we came to a stop in a cloud of 2 stroke smoke.
We were lost. Ran right into the lake shoreline of who-knows-where.
I managed to push us back out into some deeper water and started the motor, ran the motor in the deeper water for a bit and it wasn't vibrating or shaking. We got our wits about us and FINALLY found the boat ramp.

A big thanks to a guy who was fishing next to boat ramp with a small light, we yelled to him in the dark and he helped us find the ramp. Also a big thanks to Flatcreek for helping me to get motivated and all the intel.

Checked the motor, seems like only a few dings and nicks in the prop. Will I go back, probably, will I go back at night, probably but with my lucky hat and a 1 million candle power spot light.