Jinksed

 The title of my last post before leaving the USA is what did it.  MP has been saying for a while now that I used up all my fishing moe-joe by making money off the sport and she appears to be right again... We got here 10 days ago and it was hot , humid and just perfect as I raced to get a rod and reel rigged before sunset. I hustled to the beach and my first cast was nadda and my second cast was a nice two or three pound Toro. I quickly released him and decided not to get a pic as the beach just had to be chucked full of them....right ?....well, 10 days later I'm still waiting for the next tug.

Now this fishing deal is something that leads to theory after theory and after going into executive session with the remnants of Team X we've decided that it's mother nature....how's that for an ADF+G endorsed scientifically researched theory ? The hurricane a couple months has had a huge effect, the in shore water is still murky although nice and warm. We're seeing a lot of baitfish and Dan reports that November was the best Rooster fishing he has ever had.  We see Charter Boats trolling close to shore so you know me, I'm here to tell ya that when you give somebody $$$$ to go fishing he knows exactly what he's doing....usually. So that brings me around to the quit sniveling and  keep fishing part of the story. I used to actually like it when a little slow fishing made for an increased challenge...but this is ridiculous. But I'll keep fishing, I've always said that there's two types of fishermen : those that listen to rumors and those who create them. I intend to be that last guy .

So here's the Mexico equivalent of the post a Moose picture because you didn't catch any fish....I've done that many, many a time right here on Mile 14.

But I did find adventure. My friend Jack built himself the cutest little Boston Whaler clone and wanted me to go with him to mark several near by fishing spot way points on his also new Garmin GPS which is the same machine I have on the white boat back in Mooootana. So Jack being the Tarzan that he is brings along his scuba gear because the first waypoint is a wreck in 75' and he wants to make sure it's really there....Yikes I've never seen anything like this in my life, I'm an on top of the water guy.  So we anchor up and Jack ties the tank to the side of the boat and jumps in , puts it on and then rednecks me because when I handed him the spear gun I unhooked the pin wire somehow. So now I know about spear guns and he disappears. About 7 or 8 minutes that felt like hours went by and he comes up saying it's there for sure but the water was to murky for a good shot on the fish he saw....Then I go to pull anchor and of course it's stuck so Jack says no problema and dives down and retrieves the little plow anchor.  By this time I'm about as impressed with Jack as I was seeing Les Anderson with his 100 pound world record salmon.....did I mention that Jack is 75 years old  ? Jack if you read this I'll just say thank you for the inspiration, I was kinda needing a lift and you sir are an amazing man.

If you're wondering why it took me 10 days to write a Mile 14 story after I promised to do better I got a good reason and new acronym to explain it T.I.M. , this is Mexico. Usually when you leave your condo for the season and return only about half the stuff works....when you leave it for two season none of the stuff works. The only weird thing was the Mabe brand refrigerator that has been making terrible sounds for years and is the oldest electronic device we have was still running...but nothing else....Air conditioner, nada. Internet and phone , nadda . Television, nadda....and even the shower head had a severe prostate problem . So I fired TelMex and got my buddy Ceser from Aztech computer services over and now I have the best internet . Thank you Ceser ! And oh' my camera's rebelled. I brought my reliable shock proof Lumix and it's snapper button froze up and my back up Lumix had the telephoto extend and never return. So, if you notice Mile 14 is photo deprived and I resort to cheesey google pics just hold your horses until I get a new camera figured out . 

Bet ya wonder what that is eh ? Well it's MP being sanitized at Franciso our Dentists office, very thorough and all the Beatle's music you can handle. When he fixed my front teeth years ago he got me to be a serious flosser. So serious that I felt like the regular floss wasn't tight enough between a gap I had next to a grown so I went to using dental tape which is really just 1/4 inch light boat anchor line. Well it got stuck and I gave it the old Jeffro treatment and that cap flew 6 feet across the bathroom and chipped a mirror....ahhh not really I'm joking about the mirror.  So that happened in Ham Bone about 6 months ago and now the teeth moved just enough to need the entire thing re done. Oh well....4 visits gives us 4 chances to go to the best Marisco's beach side restaurant where we had Jaiba (crab ) tostado's that were so good that they made my first case of tourista more than worth it. 

O.K. There's the launch of Mile 14 southern Bureau 21 / 22....I gotta stop writing. I have  busy day :

take the bike up to OXXO for a beer run.

finish Tom Clancy.

get ready for Friday night.

repair 4 rod eyes ( did I tell you how they rust out and when you open the rod case they inserts fall out and break on the floor )

do my cardio ( stairs ) 

Practice new songs. 

Hot tub...see ya again soon