Well so far 2010 has not turned out to be the season I was hoping for. After a bust a Lake of the Ozarks I came home and started my week long Captains Classes at the Green Turtle Bay Marina. I need, as all guides or captains for hire need on any Coast Guard managed waters. This is about the only thing that  has gone well as I passed the course put on by True Course which put on a great school. Now after being off the waters here for two and half weeks I finally got my boat back on Weds. afternoon just in time to get my brakes put back on. This would have been great if I had gotten the right size bolts but now have to wait till Thurs. morning to run back to the hardware store at 7am to get the right ones when I should be on the water. Got the brake caliper back on and am ready to get after it now that it's 10am. I decided to fish Lake Barkley for the two days I have to prefish since I don't know it that well yet. The bite is off and managed a few short fish flippin an Outkast Tackle Naughty Bug black/blue with a 3/8oz tru-tungsten flippin weight on deeper bushes and a shallow crank. Friday I was able to get out right a way in the morning but this day was to be cut short by a broken trolling motor cable at 11am so the rest of the day was spent in the garage replacing cables. For those who don't keep spare parts on hand for your boat this is a must have, you may never need them but when you do it's a life saver and they are not hard to do. Tournament morning we got to the ramp and put the boat in just in time as the storms just started to roll in and started raining. So there we sat for an hour and a half in a steady down pour which was actually dry compared to our ride to the first spot of the morning. With a 25 mph North wind rolling against the current we had a 6 mile run in 5-6 footers, nice way to start out the day eating a couple rollers to fill the boat up! As luck would have it as we pulled up on our first spot a flat in the middle of a cove I put the trolling motor in the water and the cables are very loose and the GPS shorts out!!! So without the GPS I decided to just get on the bank and chunk and wind. Mary was throwing a spinnerbait  while I was throwing a shallow crank. We did manage to boat a bunch of short fish and even put a 2lb keeper in the boat. After getting that in the boat I took the trolling motor apart and got the cables tight like they should be but could not get the GPS to go so we just kept beating banks all day. In the end we just managed that one small keeper which wieghed a whopping 2.02lbs but good for 80th place out of 300 boats. It only took 5-15 to get a check and 16lbs to win but now with everything working on the boat, new power head and compressor, basically new lower unit last fall, new trolling motor cables, and my gps short figured out I am looking forward to a great rest of the year.