The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The good. A fella and his wife went fishing one Friday after he got home from work. They caught a few smallmouth from a section of the local river that used to be inaccessible. Since a dam had been removed, however, they could get to it, using their jet-drive boat.

The good continued into the start of another fishing day on Sunday, when this fella went out with a friend. They fished a different section of the same river and caught some fish...the biggest weighing about 3 pounds.

Things turned bad, though, and the Sunday fishing trip had to be cut short when the boat-owner took a wrong turn through a shallow-water area and skipped across a rock. Soon thereafter, water was spotted in the bottom of the boat...Oops!

The ugly part, as things turned out, was discovering that they had put a hole in the boat. Also, the switch for the bilge pump had stopped working, which forced them to get the boat on step and pull the plug while running to the dock, so the water would be sucked out.

When they arrived back at the dock and had the boat on the trailer, they learned that the hole was about twice the size of the drain plug and was located where the hull and transom are welded together.