Nice Smitty,
Very nice.  Here's the story of me leaving the boat.  I'm ok and the boat is not so ok.  I was running near the sunken forest.  Its a line I have ran many times.  Going about 55mph I hit a submerged log that either broken free of the sunken forest or it was a tree that may have shifted and moved higher in the water column.  We hit the submerged tree and I was thrown from my boat.  I was ok, a little bruised up, the boat took some damage in the last two feet of the pad.  Motor and lower unit ok.  There is some wood in the water intake that caused my water pressure to be lower now.  I will have to take the boat in to get repair, so no Jack and Jill tourney for me and the wife.  Saturday, I scratched a limit together for 9.5 lbs.  Sunday I could only get 3 fish for 5.5 lbs.  It was enough to finish 10th overall and make the state team.    The weather totally shut down the smallie bite around the docks and the smallies moved deep.  Very few limits were caught.  You had to fish deep and hope that you picked one off here and there.  It was a good feeling to know that I was fishing the right water both days and I kept running into Dave Kromm both days.  He seemed to be fishing all the area's I was.  I didn't make quite the right adjustments on day one to upgrade to a better bag and day two was difficult.  Many of the places I fished produced fish for others and guys rotated around from spot to spot.  It was a matter of being in a spot when the smallies would turn on for a short burst of time.  Most guys reported catching fish in bunches, 3 or 4 at a burst and then long periods of no bites. 
  So as it stands, we will be fishing Lake Cour de Lane next May.  I qualified as a non boater, so I will be fishing from the back seat of qaulifiers from other states.  One can hope that I draw well and will be put on fish.  Now comes the hard part of figuring what to take with me to Cour de lane.

Mark

wow... first of all glad you're ok mark.  secondly nice job on making the state team.  maybe i'll try my hand at the qualifiers next year, they sound like fun.

troy

Mark,

Sorry to here about the self ejecting seat your back seater said he thought you were joking about the red button when you said not to push it. LOL Hope the boat repair doesn't cost a arm and a leg. See you on the water sooner than later I hope!!!!!!!

I am having the glass work done by Tern Boats in Des Moines.  He is supposed to be the best.  I will take it there tomorrow for the estimate.  The lower unit will be looked at by the guys at Gonnanson's Marine.

Mark

Scary story.  Glad you are ok.