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Date Posted: 08:24:01 09/16/02 Mon
Author: Helen
Subject: Re: Be careful renting boats at Lake Lopez
In reply to: Terry 's message, "Re: Be careful renting boats at Lake Lopez" on 08:21:07 05/07/02 Tue

>Hello,
> My name is Terry, I writing this letter in hopes of
>letting people know of an incidence that happen to me
>this last weekend.
>
>The day started off as one of those days, you know,
>you got two young boys and a teenage daughter you
>promised to go fishing on Saturday, my brother had
>been going through the same thing with his son all
>week long, after he heard us talking about it. I keep
>track of the different catches at the at the different
>lakes that WON posts each week. I like to fish for pan
>fish, last week lake Lopez had showed a good
>possibility so I told my brother that was our
>destination.
>
>We left Los Angeles about 3:45 AM and arrived at lake
>Lopez about 7:45 we proceeded to the marina store to
>see about renting a pontoon boat for the day.
>The lady behind the counter in formed us that all of
>there pontoon boats were non operational and all they
>had was a 16 foot aluminum boat with a motor that held
>6 people. Well we were a total of six, my baby son
>Alex age 3, my middle boy Chris 11, daughter Kameale
>13, my nephew Andrew 10, and my eldest brother Neal
>and myself. The lady that served us was very nice she
>went over the rules of the lake and the area�s we
>needed to stay out of. After condensing our icebox to
>a smaller icebox we purchased from them and getting
>everything setup, we proceeded to the boat dock to
>board the boat, the young man at the dock again went
>over the operation of the boat and we boarded and we
>were off to look for pan fish. The dock guy said that
>the best area to look was over by the dam so over by
>the dam it was. On the way over to the dam, the motor
>on the boat had started to sputter but we were moving.
> We got over to the area where the guy said and
>started to fish, after a while my brother caught a
>small trout �released� soon after Chris caught a
>bluegill then it went silent so we decided to move, I
>went to start the motor and it started but soon shut
>down, so I restarted it again and it did it again, I
>traced the gas line and found that is was not seated
>correctly so I fixed it and we were able to move, as
>we were moving out of the area we were, another boat
>came by and the gentleman told us that they were
>catching bluegills and crappies out in the main
>channel so we �

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