Musky stories

[goldie11]

At this point im pretty pumped for opener so lets hear some of your guys crazy stories that have happened over the past years

[50inchpig]

Couple seasons ago I put the boat in one night with APC and our dogs. Went to crank the motor and my starter battery was dead, so I grabbed the jumper cables out of the truck to jump it off one of my trolling motor batteries. Outboard started fine, I didn't unhook the jumpers right away and after a few seconds everything started smoking, instrument panel, under the outboard hood, battery wires, everything.

I didn't know whether to run or stay there and try to get the instrument panel off and extinguish the fire. I stayed and started unscrewing the panel and the smoke stopped coming out after I got the jumper cables unhooked and killed the motor. I expected everything to be melted down but things were all still functional at this point. So we loaded up, restarted the outboard again and idled away from the ramp.

I decided to leave my GPS and sonar off since by starter battery was so low, and let it charge up a bit as we were running. It was dark by this time but I had fished this lake a bunch of times and knew where I was going. I sped up and reached back for the trim switch to trim the motor down, it wouldn't go and I couldn't get on plane even though I was giving it full gas and holding the trim switch down. I realized a little too late that I was plowing through shallow sand. We slowed down and my trim sounded like it was shot, but did lower the motor down enough so we could run. We pulled up at the first spot I chose, close to shore since my lights were very dim due to the low battery. Trim just cracked and gurgled but we were fine at least for the rest of evening with it.

Had a nice fish follow on the first spot, decided to run across the lake and try another shallow spot. Got over there just fine, made a few casts, and my lab pup, probably 15 weeks old at the time starts yelping bloody murder. Caught a spinnerbait hook in the leg, point didn't go all the way through though. We grabbed him and calmed him down, but we knew we had to get the hook barb through so we could cut it off. Not really proud of it but I don't think it would have been much easier to take him in to shore and the vet, so I pushed it through the flesh on his leg and cut it off. Bruised but not broken, and we're back to fishing.

Not 5 minutes later, Tony has a fish eat at the boat. He's also got his dog with him, who instantly jumps on top of the fish. I don't know who in the boat at ths point was more confused - us, the dogs, or the fish, but Tony managed to take the fish on a few laps around the boat to keep it away from the dog, handed me the rod, and pulled his dog back in. We did get the fish in the net. Not an easy mess to sort out in the dark.

We caught two more fish in the next hour and decided we'd had enough for a short outing. That's my story.

[goldie11]

haha at least you caught some fish lol

[nater]

Goldie, no stories of your own??

Well I've got a couple fun stories to look back on in the last couple years.

Last year I fished with Shoot2Kill and thought we'd secured the rods in good but apparently my rod cover catches some air. Especially driving into 50 mph gusts! All of a sudden I hear, dude your rod flew out on a busy highway. We recovered it with some road rash. Got to the lake tested it and it was working fine. Pulled out a custom bucktail I tied up and 5 min later landed a 44" fish! Saltist's are indestructible

I was on a lake about two years ago fishing solo and beached my boat next to the cattails after a bad morning and didn't think twice since the wind was too my back. I got the trailer backed up to the ramp and my boat was drifting away from the dock!! I guess I didn't run it up far enough and the wind had switched. $hit! I ran to the dock and it was about 10 feet away and moving farther. I quick pulled out my cell phone and wallet, jumped in and swam out to it. Oh man, I won't make that mistake again!

The lakes haven't iced out yet but with the expo tomorrow I'm getting a little more pumped up for the season!