Dumbest thing done while bass fishing..

[Deitz Dittrich]

So the thread in the main forum got me thinking... The one where you did a dumb thing.. Thought it would be fun in our little bass forum as well..

I'll start..

And I wasnt even really fishing.. I was just getting ready. This happened a few years ago when I had my Triton. I was organizing the boat in the garage. Doing a bunch of silly things.. when I sat in the chair at the steering console. Something hurt bad and I tried to stand up quickly. WRONG THING TO DO!!! I had sat on a DD22 crankbait that I had increased the hooks on.. the front hook was through the boat seat.. the rear hook was through my "Seat"...

I sat there in pain for a little while.. probably whimpered some.. I tried a few attempts to free the lure from the seat, not successful. It was not coming out of "my seat" and has some good blood by this time. I was starting to get worried when I saw my cell phone in the windshild of the boat.. called the wife who was in the garden. Not a call I looked forward to..

me-" hey, think you could come help me here in the garage?"...

wife-"sure, can you come help me a second out here first.. "...

me- "ummm, sure, but mine is kinda important, can you help me first."

wife-" mine will only take a second, just get out here."

Me-" Trust me.. ... .. mine first."

wife---silence--- "What did you do now?"

20 or so mins later, I was free from my fishing bondage, minus some blood a couple treble hooks and a pair of jeans. Although, now days, kids think pants with gigantic holes in the arse are cool.. maybe should have saved them and sold them in a garage sale..

[Dylan33]

That made me laugh out loud....people I work with think i'm nuts already, now I am laughing while selling insurance....anyway....that call sounds like several I've had with my wife..Thanks Deitz

[TR21HP]

Ok, I'll go next.

We were on Chisago, launching on a busy weekend, I had already helped a few guys launch or land just to speed up the process and when it was our turn left the boat buckles attached. My son is giving it gas, the boat is going no where and finally it occurs to me what had happened. I wade out into the water and release the buckles and heard a guy say, see son all that money and fancy boat doesn't mean you know what you're doing. How could I argue?

[EBass]

LOL - I love her dramatic pause.

I'm not thy great story teller like you are, but I did make a side arm cast and my buddy was sitting in the chair when my baby 1 minus slammed the back of his head with an instant stop. The hook wasn't that deep but he did have a bruise that had the shape of a baby 1.

That was last year. I'll see what happens this year.

PS - he got me back and stuck me with a one of those buzz frogs in the back of my head. Dang Karma!

[jeffreyd]

i would say pictures would be great but considering where it was, that is ok. glad it is not worse than it is.

[ole matty]

If you sit on lures or hooks and get stuck to it and had wife to help you out...

You might be redneck!!!!!!!!!!

[Deitz Dittrich]

For those that know me.. I am VERY accident prone.. Not sure how my brain is wired, I am on a first name basis at the ER it seems like.. started early in life.. which reminds me of my very last baby sitting job..

I was 14 at the time, taking care of a 1st and 2nd grader. Things were going grand. Easy money!!! Even talked them into going for a walk.. The first grader found golf ball.. which was fun.. Until the second grader asked.. "How high can you make this bounce?".. All I remember is saying... "Dunno, lets see"..

with everything my scrawny little 14 year old body had, I bounced that dang golf ball,

Straight into my forehead.. Out cold, in the middle of a road.. While baby sitting..

The good news is.. I've only tried that once in my life.. My momma didnt raise a dummy..

[TonkaBass]

Wasn't really my fault I guess, I swear that pike was aiming for me!

[Cecil]

I drove to WI fishing knowing that trailer bearings were overdue for a grease packing. Made it out there without problems and figured I was worrying about nothing. On the way back I stopped at a lake and fished and when the trailer tires hit the water steam came from them. Knew I was in trouble but had nowhere to stop on way home (late on a Sunday). Stopped at a few lakes and dipped the trailer in to cool them off. Made it all the way home and about halfway up the driveway backing it in the axle seized up as it was welded to the frame and rotor.

[Musky hunter 82]

I have two.

The first my brother and I are fishing in a canoe, and using floating #9 rapala's. When all of the sudden he hooks a really nice fish, he gets it to the side of the canoe. As he reaches in to lip it the fish shakes his head and sinks the hook into his thumb. So there he is hollering in the front of the canoe with a bass hanging from one of the trebble hooks and the other in his thumb.. Well long story short he manages to get the hook out of the fish, but can't get it out of his thumb. As he asks if I can help him out, I did the brotherly thing (with bass boiling all around us) I kept fishing just so I caould catch more then him. After a little while i did help him get the hook out.

The next one was all me, I was fishing with a small tube jig around some trees. When I spotted a big bass swiming up shallow, I knew it would be a long cast but I had to try it. so I wind up and give it heck. All of the sudden SMACK, and my sunglasses go flying in the lake and my ear is bleeding like crazy. Yup that little tube caught me right in the ear, hurt like the dickens..

[Nick Kuhn]

I tried to throw a heavy rattle-trap type bait (3/4 ounce or so) with an ultra light rod. Needless to say the rod bent over enough on the cast that the hook hit me in the back of the head and proceeded to cut through my scalp for about an inch before finally continuing it's way on the cast. My hair on the rear treble looked like someone had tied bucktail to it.

[Dourque]

Ouch Tonka!!!!

Ok I'll give it a go, 1st time out with my oldest one, he was 3yrs old at the time. gonna go fishing on Big Cormorant, back the boat in,push it around to the other side of the dock load the kid in the boat. go to fire up the motor and realize we are taking on water..Doh forgot to put the plug in. grab the plug reach over the back end of the boat, hand slips off the motor taking out the wave wacker, as I go head first into the cold May water, along with my cell phone and wallet. Can't find the plug for the life of me. someone comes along and gives me their spare plug(what is that?) put it in, hop in the boat and now the motor won't start and the wind has picked up to a hurricane, blowing so that getting the boat around the dock is a feat of epic proportions. Finally get the boat back on the trailer, manually of course. At this point I just wanna call it a day, as hypothermia seems to be the next thing on the list to check off. But as is the case the 3yr old asks "when are we gonna fish?" so I decide we can just fish from shore, and go figure 1st cast the kid hauls in a fish.

On a side note, I now keep 3 plugs in the boat, put my wallet and cell in a storage compartment before starting out and always make sure to fire up the motor before its off the trailer.

And then to make it even more fun, got home and the motor fired right up at the turn of the key.

Man I love Fishing!

[ikeslayer]

First tourney i ever fished - figured i better prefish. Got on the water at odarkthirty and couldn't figure out why not of my contour maps were really making any sense - spent 4 hours prefishing on the wrong lake only to figure it out after the sun was good and high. I wish i could tell you we went on to prefish the right lake and dominate but we got spanked.

[Cecil]

Thats a good one! Buddy of mine had a tournament on lake A Sat and lake B Sun. Went to lake B on Sat. Only difference is that they got to lake A a few minutes late but took 2nd place...

[going4it]

As a kid I remember my Dad telling my brother and I to go throw the minnows out. So I go and open up the minnow bucket and dump the minnows into the lake that we just purchased that day, my brother finally yelled at me and I think there were about 3 left when he yelled at me to stop. Guess Dad should have been more specific. I thought I was going to get chewed out for sure. Was fun to watch them swim away though as a little kid!

[Bullwinkle]

Deitz,

I think there are pictures out there when you went face first off your boat in three feet of water during one of our tournaments. Dude, you were dripping wet and had sand in your hair at the weigh-in. Didn't someone come running down to their dock and ask if you could do it again because it made them laugh hysterically. Luckily you didn't get hurt. Now that was awesome.

[Deitz Dittrich]

might have been 3 feet deep from my top coat of the boat, water was maybe 2 at best.. and yes.. Full facial.. Bless the old lady's heart.. she came running down to ask if i was O.K. When I said I was fine.. she then laughed in my face.. to the point it was annoying. Maybe even rude.. Really, should a 70+ year old lady have a hard time breathing just because I fell out of my boat, landed on my face, flipped over.... AND STILL GOT THE FISH!!!!!

However, did I cash a check.. No, wait... I was first looser.. First person to NOT cash a check..

Hey, thanks bullwinkle for bringing that up again.. Why not talk about the time I got dumped right before prom by my "girlfriend".. Kick a man while he is down.. Thanks.. 8-)

[Irish]

I was fishing a small lake with my dad out of our john boat. I caught a small fish on a senko that got hooked real deep. I couldn't get it out and my dad had the needle nose in the back so he said he would unhook it for me. I put the fish back in the water and slid it back towards my dad who was sitting in a real nice comfy chair hem had just gotten. He reached over to grab the fish and the chair tipped over! The whole boat nearly capsized as my dad went in and I was hanging on to the rail for dear life.

Later that night my dad bolted the chair to the bottom of the boat.

[st.crioxfishin]

This happened in the middle of may while fishing a lake in Iowa... We recently had a warm spell of weather in Iowa and the nats had just hatched; they were absolutely brutal! I launched the boat and started fishing down the bank. I swatted at the nats every so often, of course they didn't go away. I tried to just forget about it and not worry about them. Then one went straight in my eye... That nat really got me ticked. I quickly took my hat off my head and took a huge swipe at the group of nats. Unfortunately, my expensive sunglasses were resting on the top of my hat... In the drink they went and so did I. I dropped my rod, fell to the floor of the boat and submerged half my body under water to quickly grab them before they went out of sight; man did I feel stupid... Good thing it was early in the morning, otherwise someone would have had a pretty good laugh...

[Presco]

This wasn't me but I was in the boat. Couple years ago on our annual trip to Canada we pull up to the dock on a really windy day. Boat is rocking all over the place. My dad, who at the time weighed a solid 350 bills, stood up and reached for the dock. He's standing with two hands on the dock and both feet in the boat trying to hold us steady. Suddenly the boat starts to drift away from the dock and my dad is trying with all his might to pull it back. His weight didn't allow him to athletically jump to the dock or push himself back into our boat. While it seemed like forever, the whole thing probably happened in a few seconds. Pretty soon he's 100% vertical with his hands on the dock and his feet on the edge of the boat. He stayed like that for a solid couple seconds, hanging on for dear life. There was nothing any of us could do. He turns and looks at me and gives a Rambo-esque, "I'm going in" and drops out of site. We still have a good laugh about that one.

[ikeslayer]

This wasn't me but I was in the boat.

yeah i'll bet.

good story though i have had that happen to 2 different friends in 2 consecutive trips and they both had time to give me the look (you know the one right as your mind discovers that you ARE INDEED falling in)

[NTW]

LMAO ~ That is a great look! I've seen it with one leg in the boat and one on the dock.

[gritsnham]

Fishing with my Buddy on prior one day and he gets snagged. After a couple tries to pull it out it gives the line a little to much slack and it wraps around one of my nicer combos. Well you guessed it when he yanked again the rod popped up in the air and went right in. My partner then was in the water before I even realized what had happened full clothes and all in late may. The cold water made him forget about the rod pretty fast and it still may be in prior to this day for all I know...

The second story happened to me while jig fishing shallow cover. I had a fish pick up the bait right away and wound up for the set with a once jig on the line. While the said jig came back at me at lighting speed and knocks me right in the forhead and knocks me over. That was alot of force coming back a short distance and I think about it on every hookset now!

Thanks for starting this thread Dietz, some great stories so far!

[Craigums]

I was doing camera work for a local pro who was putting a show together. He was doing a little segment on jig fishing and how to "drive the hook home". Well a fish picks up his jig, presumably by the trailer and he winds up to stick this fish. He sets the hook so hard the jig comes flying back at sonic speeds right towards my ummm......jewels. The hooks buries into my denim jeans, thank god no deeper than that! I pan the camera shot down showing the jig hanging off my pants and tell him "well thats one for the blooper reel"

[KTapper]

I would have to say the dumbest thing I have done bass fishing was well umm.... Bass fishing!