My Biggest Fishing Train Wrecks

The week the Outdoor Blogger Network has a writing prompt titled Damaged Goods. Here is the idea:If you have broke, damaged, or set on fire a favorite piece of outdoor gear we want to hear your story! I have a few stories, which I will do in multiple posts.Can you guess what this first story is about?For about 10 years in a row from the mid-90's to the mid-2000's I made the trek down to SE WI to