Skipper and Little Buddy

[Random guy]

I have this in another forum but I thought you River Boys would get a kick out of it.

If I only had the video camera:

I won’t say where or when I fishing this weekend just to save these guys a little embarrassment but…I have never seen anything so funny!

I was shore fishing flatheads watching the birds, listening to the river and just enjoying the day when out of the side stream comes a new boat with a couple of guys heading right for the water covered sandbar. Now mind you these guys where not screaming along by any means, maybe a touch above trolling speed when the boat bumps into the sandbar and stops. Now any one that has piloted a boat, been in a boat or even seen a boat would have just backed up and looked for deeper water in that 70 yard wide creek mouth. Not these guys.

After a quick investigation the captain of this mighty vessel (brand new 17 footer) decides the best solution is to put his buddy in the bow of the boat, trim the motor up high enough to get the water intakes and exhaust in open air and FLOOR IT. This didn’t work the first time so he tried it again and again and again. Now after several minutes of 20 foot high rooster tails they have moved about three feet, now we are getting somewhere punching it so if punching it worked why not hold it to the floor? A geyser of water that would put old faithful to shame reached to the heavens and the sound of a Harley Davidson doing 70mph in first gear echoed in the river valley. Luck finally smiled upon these two in the form of one of those boats not going fast enough to get on plane but slow enough to plow a huge wake. The wake smacked into the bow of the boat picking it up and pushing the prop into the water and sand harnessing the torque like an eighteen wheeler grabbing gears and off the sandbar they came only to punch it, bounce of a floating branch and continue the three hour cruise down the river.

I sat on my bucket with tears in my eyes and a gut ache that still hurts from trying not to laugh out loud at Skipper and Little Buddy.

[Guest]

and I thought it was bad when a hovecraft kept pushing its way up a steep sand bar that I was fishing on.. unfortunately, there wasnt much humor to that.. that was strait up red-neck noise. I think they thought they were impressing us.