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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 114143" data-attributes="member: 389">Shoulda taken a pic of the guy and given him his moment of fame.  So last week I decided to be brave and take my 8 yr old daughter, 10 yr old son, and my GF's 8 and 11 yr old boys out fishing by myself.  Figured we'd hit the Kidder County area on a nice Friday morning.  Had to take a lot of gravel to where we were going and everything was fine until about a quarter of a mile from the boat ramp, the washboard road had slowed me down to about 30 mph.  Grrr, gravel and boats are just no fun in the first place.  Anyway, at about 30-35 mph it felt like someone had all of a sudden thrown out about a 1,000 lb anchor, as my head snapped back up I watched my boat leap about 3 ft into the air.  Holy Hannah, WTF is going on here?  As the boat came back to Earth I saw in my rearview mirror a tire rolling off into the adjacent hay field.  Oh dear Lord, a quick check of my driver's side mirror and I could see that tire was still attached to the trailer, so I did a fast look at the passenger side mirror expecting to see my boat trailer skidding down the road on the axle.  Nope, that's not it.  Immediately I started wondering how in the heck I had just run over what must have been a tire in the road, was I sleeping or what?Turns out the washboard road had caused the spare tire bracket to break off and it dropped my spare tire down onto the road for it to be used as a wheel chock.  The spare tire with part of the bracket still attached is what I had run over.  Ended up shattering one wheel fender and knocking a chunk out of the other, bent the rim on the spare tire and popped the spare itself. Not sure yet what structural damage may have been done to the trailer, it's in getting a physical as I type this.After the initial challenge of getting to the lake, the kids ended up doing pretty well as we kept 12 eyes (no size though), put back about another 12 eyes and caught a few decent sized pike.  The daughter put on quite the clinic that day as she caught 10 walleyes and two northerns herself in about 3.5 hours.Between the day off of work, time off of work to get the repairs completed, and parts/labor, this turned out to be about an $800 day.And I'd do it all over again!The failed spare tire carrier.[ATTACH]6423[/ATTACH]Nice job on the fender![ATTACH]6424[/ATTACH]Happy kids with $800 in fish.[ATTACH]6425[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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