Crazy things happen

[BMANN]

Okay let’s a hear the funniest or craziest thing that has happened to you on the water....

Mine was night fishing on the chick and had to retie a spinner bait.....Tied my favorite not cut the tag end threw the spinner bait in the water...picked up my rod and had cut the wrong line....so there goes that spinnerbait. Grab another spinnerbait and did the exact same thing again....I then switched to a worm....



Ok lets hear yours...

 

[RRB32]

I was going down the lake one time and hit some wake and the trolling motor came undone and deployed into the water causing a huge spray of water into the boat and all over me.. I was soaked and it was a cold day early spring. Good thing I had slowed down some before I hit the wake or it might have ripped it off the boat.

 

[Fshn Cpa]

Not on the water but at the ramp. A spare tire was laying on the ramp so I moved it to the side thinking someone would come looking for it. When I went to pull the boat out, I discovered it was my tire, which was now gone and never ween again. Tire and rim about $300 gone

 

[Carl]

Friday nighter out of Sullivans this past summer. Someone released an 8lber that was having trouble swimming off. The fish was just off the side concrete walk ramp that goes into the water. As soon as my feet hit the waterline, I realized i was in trouble. Green Slime. I managed to keep my footing and surfed down into the water. As I was surfing, I realized my brand new cell phone was in my pocket. I was able to take the phone out and throw it. The last thing I saw before I went underwater was my phone bouncing off of a guys chest. He saved the phone. We saved the fish.

 

[catfish170]

taking my dad night fishing on Tims Ford. He managed to hook the same stump 7 times in a row with a spinnerbait. Finally ran trolling motor 100 non stop yards before he could cast again......Oh and there was the time he threw a backlash on a spinning reel with a magnum Rapala tied on....freshwater and catches a Pelican!!!! Always was fun with dad!!

 

[Jpull]

The first time you realize you're an *Old Timer*! New boat, solo trip down the river to the first fishing spot and something sounds a little different when I get there. $2,500 hearing aid gone with the wind.

 

[31airborne]

I caught a cat. As in, the feline. Was fishing in a TX on the Pine Bluff pool of the Arkansas River, working a string of docks and piers in a backwater area. I was skipping a wacky-rigged senko to the backs of the docks and got a lil over-zealous. Bait hit the water, popped up, and landed by some flowers on the shore. Didn't think anything of it - started reeling the bait back to recast when a cat jumps from behind the flowers and snags the bait. Took very little pressure to drive the hook thru its paw. Cat starts shrieking and runs off towards the nearest house, spooling me in the process. I parked the boat at the dock, tied off, and went after the cat. About that time a little old lady comes running out of the house w/ a broom screaming, "You're killing my cat!!!" Between swats w/ the broom I explained what happened and finally convinced her to grab the cat and hold it still. I backed the hook out (carefully) and she released the cat ~no worse for wear. I got my bait back (albeit a lil ruffed up).

Tail included, the cat would've met the 15" minimum for the Pine Bluff pool.

 

[jpdavidm]

About 25 years ago I purchased my first boat I heard that the Sauger were hitting at Pick Wick Dam asked my Dad to go with me Remind this is in December back in days so it was freezing Dad backs me down motor won't start current started pulling me towards the rocks so I drop the trolling motor and little did I know it was on high and it threw me out of the boat in about 3 foot of water my dad comes to the boat and says I will go get the truck I said heck no we drove we are fishing get in the boat by time we got to our first stop I ask dad where did you put the minnows he starts laughing they are in the truck so we had to drive back to retrieve minnows after all of this I can say I had a great day with my dad and we still laugh about it.

 

[flyman]

a couple of years ago, my son an I are fishing a night TX with our club. we blast of at 7PM and head to our first spot. he picks up a mann's 1- and begins working it across the top of grass. all of the sudden I hear him grunt and the reel starts screaming. he yells "get the net", I look out and I tell him its not a bass I think you have a big carp or gar..as he is trying to get it closer to the boat I catch a glimpse of an outline in the water...HOLY CRAP you've hook a beaver...he say what? I said you have hooked a beaver. Sure enough somehow he had snagged a beaver in the back. I have him give me the rod (best dad move ever) and told him when I get the beaver up to the edge of the boat reach down and grab the crankbait, well I get it up to the boat he reaches for the crankbait and the beaver turn and tried to get him, in the process the beaver is beating his tale like crazy on the water and we are boat soaked to the skin. the beaver takes of again this time I tell my son to get the net ...he says "we are not going to net the beaver are we dad"...(understand we are both laughing so hard by this point it kid of hard to understand each other). I said "NO" when I get the beaver to the edge this time grab the crankbait with the net and pull...it worked and the beaver popped water at us one last time for good measure.. I don't know the last time I laughed that hard or been so wet without getting in the water. Any time we return to that area we still get a good laugh about that trip.

 

[Pointer 78]

I've loaded the boat not once, not twice, but 3 times with the trolling motor down. In my defense (however miniscule) they were all at night.

C'mon....I know I'm not the only one.

 

[VolsFan24]

A month or 2 ago I was loading at Suck Creek. The water was already pretty low and I had never used that ramp, plus I would still consider myself a novice at positioning the trailer on my new to me boat. Well, as I’m approaching I’m saying out loud “don’t hit the spare, don’t hit the spare, don’t hit the spare”. I square it up and hear a big pop. Well I hit the spare. It was brand new. Maybe a week old. That was money well spent. Needless to say I had the trailer in way too deep.

 

[BMANN]

These are all pretty funny. Sometimes not to funny when it happens. But we can all laugh now