Fished with Captain Doug and Daryl. Temperature this morning was 49 degrees and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 70s. The wind was out of the west northwest 20 to 23 knots with waves over 2 feet, and it was very cold this morning. We could not program Doug's GPS to fish our way points so we had to guess where we were on the water. Started fishing at the first location and we caught some fish but the guys were not happy so we moved to our old location from the previous weeks (Doug had that stored in the GPS). Only caught 2 perch here so we went back to our last spot. Started catching some fish, they were not very large, but at least we were on fish. Between Daryl and I working with the GPS, one of the boat batteries went dead. Doug put the switch on battery #2 and it was dead, not a good thing when you're 4 miles out on the lake. We waited about a half an hour and tried to start the motor again. It turned over very slow but would not start. We decided to wait a little while longer and start the kicker motor. Got the kicker to start so we let it run for 45 minutes to charge the battery and then we tried the big motor. It would turn over but would not start, it was flooded. We pulled anchor and started to head in with the kicker when we tried the big motor again, low and behold, it started. Kept 69 perch and we had a very interesting trip.
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