Any good humor at the boat ramps this past weekend???

[delmuts]

the problem for some of us!! the plug is on the outside of the boat!

[Eric Wettschreck]

Dude, I did the old forget the plug thing a couple weeks ago. Myself, Mrs. Boilerguy, and little dude boilerguy lauched the boat and I parked the truck. My lady and son are standing on the dock holding the boat waiting for me to walk to them, then my wife steps in. I wish I had a camera cuz it was priceless. (my boat plug is in the bottom and not in the back) When the wife stepped in an old faithful sized geyser shot up and got her right in the head!!!! Good thing for bilge pumps, and towels, and ear plugs.

[stmichael]

That is hilarious boilerguy!

[fishin magician]

The guy next me on Friday was pulling his boat out when I heard a scraping noise...I yelled up to him and he stopped. Yes it was the old I forgot to trim up the motor. After I yelled he started to back down so I yelled again. Now he had wedged his skeg between the concrete. He tried to trim up the motor but it was wedged now.

I don't think he had much damaged so after he left my buddy and I make a couple jokes from the whole incident.

[hawkeye43]

Last week I was doing yard work, looked up to see a boat about to hit my dock. No body home in the boat. I thought they may have fallen out. Given the wind out of the southwest, it must have come from the landing. I hooked it up to pull it back, when I got close there was a guy jumping up and down, waving his arms. he said he tied the boat off to park the truck and the knot must have came out. Being that he didn't swim, all he could do was watch it go.

[nofishfisherman]

Not swiming after it is the smarter move regardless I think. I have heard of a few people having this same situation where they needed to swim out to a boat that is floating away. They didn't all make it.

You try so hard to catch up to the boat and if you can't catch it before you run out of energy you have no energy left to get back to shore.

[archer59]

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the problem for some of us!! the plug is on the outside of the boat!

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That's it exactly. All my boats have had an exterior plug. Kind of hard to reach from inside. I always use the t handle plugs you have to twist to secure. Those fold over types don't seem to last.

Nick

[crappace]

I know of an island where that same thing happened. The boat got away from a guy in a storm. He jumped in after it and started swimming. The wind pushed the boat faster than he could swim. He unfortunatly got too far out and didnt make it back to the island.

I had a guy get so mad at me at a launch this weekend. There were three of us waiting in boats for our turn at the ramp. My girlfriend was backing the truck in and for some reason he was convinced it wasnt mine and I was taking his spot at the dock. She backed it in and we were off in minutes. Sundays can make people very crabby.

[Ely Lake Expert]

I have been meaning to post this all week, (finally have time today). Anyway, last thursday august 3rd I was out fishing with one of my buddies. Trolling along the islands and finding a few fish. We were just talk'ing and all of the sudden I hear whap whap whap whap whap wha wha wha wha wha (first thought was, that sure is a loud dirt bike) then I hear even louder WHAP WHAP WHAPWHAP WHAP WHAAAA WHAAA, then i said to my buddy "thats a triple piped sled, I gaurentee it". We were screened by the island so I couldn't see it coming, but I knew when it hit the water because of the extremely loud WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and then idling again. I said to my buddy "he is went from the beach to the boat landing, we gotta go check this out" So I kick my trolling motor into high gear. Right when we get almost around the corner to see, i hear WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, back across the water to the beach he went. This was so loud that my parents called my cell phone from the other end of the lake 1 mile away asking what that noise was. So we keep fishing, then I hear him start the sled again slowly drives up to the waters edge and hammers on it WHAPWHAP WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA right back to the boat landing (this is about 175 yards from the boat landing to the beach) Now I am just sitting watching and here he goes again WHAPWHAPWHAAAAAAAA BAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa blup blup blup blup. Then silence and bubbles except for him cursing and the laughter out of my boat and the kids at the beach. The sled was on the bottom in about 12-15 feet of water. Before he even finished swimming to shore, some kids in a pontoon who knew him where driving over and one of the guys in the pontoon must have been on the cell phone because within 5 minutes there were 4 trucks and 2 wheelers there with about a dozen kids total. Next, while the driver of the sled is underwater trying to tie a rope to his sled here comes a young local cop down the boat landing, stops by the kids on the fourwheelers and says "there was a noise complaint from over here, keep it down and when you guys go home stay off the highway" then proceded to drive away. I was so close to the landing I could hear the cop. At this point it was starting to get dark and I realized I knew the dumb*** that sunk the sled. (I know his brothers and parents better, he's young) So I told him I would go home and get my big spot light. When I got back there were about 20 kids there and an adult in plain clothes, who I realized was a CO when his partner got out of the truck in full uniform. After a bit longer the pontoon got the sled close to the landing. When they untied it from the pontoon 7 kids jumped on the rope and started pulling it up the cement blocks. Then the CO started to laugh and said quit being dumb and get it off the pavement and into the sand and pull it out with the wheeler sitting there. Then once it got picked up and put in the back of the truck, the CO laughs again and says where are your license numbers and the kids thought process went something like this

By the way the sled was a 2004 or newer (i could tell by body type) RMK700 longtrack. I would say a $8000+ sled.

The kid definately got a ticket, I am just curious what all he got ticketed for.

Ryan

[cylinder]

A resort owner near Alex told me about an incident a week ago. A guy wanted to borrow his father-in-law's restored El Camino to pull at jetski to the resort for a vacation. No way, he said at first then finally agreed to let him use it if it was covered whenever they weren't using it. They put the jetski in the water, had the El Camino covered all the time as promised. When they loaded the jetski on Fri night to go home, the low water in the lake forced him to back in a little past the end of the concrete ramp and he got stuck. The resort owner agreed to pull him out with a tow strap and chain. The tow strap stretched, a link of the chain broke and the recoil of the strap threw the chain right through the windshield of the prized car. The El Camino had to be put on a truck to be hauled back to St Paul.

[Slyster]

Could you shorten those WHAAAAAA's? Making it really hard to read this thread!

[Ely Lake Expert]

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Could you shorten those WHAAAAAA's? Making it really hard to read this thread!

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Consider it done, I didn't go back and read it right away so I didn't realize it made the screen go wider.

[Murdock]

You just have to laugh sometimes. Older gentleman loads his 14' aluminum without a motor and ties it to the ramp side of the dock.(because there was another boat tied to the other side). There was no way for us to drop our boat in the water so I approach the gentleman, who was working on a boat trailer roller, and ask him if I can help him beach his boat as it is in the way of the ramp. The older gentleman tells me he only dropped his boat in the water so he could work on his trailer, but is having some terrible difficulties. I looked at the size of the trailer he was attempting to work on and realized that trailer was way to big for his boat. So I ask him why he has such a big trailer for a 14' boat. At that moment, this guy starts to laugh. "I guess I am working on the wrong trailer, this one ain't mine". He inadvertantly walked from the water to the trailer that was parked next to his own and started to work on the rollers. He laughed for 5 minutes and then left a note on the owners windshield in case the trailer he initially worked upon had something go wrong. Innocence is sometimes the funniest of occurences.

[UdeLakeTom]

From this weeks co reports..

. A call was taken late in the week about a dirt bike operating on a public roadway near Gilbert. When CO Star and COC Sutherland arrived in the area a loud sound was heard that sounded and smelled like a two stroke motor, but not quite like a dirt bike. While going to a site near an area lake, fresh snowmobile tracks were discovered! When a large amount of noise and people were seen standing on a dock across the lake, the officers went to investigate. With more than 20 people on shore pulling on a rope leading to deep water, curiosity was too strong to drive by. Officers Starr and Sutherland could see a pontoon also with a rope going down to deep water. When asked, the individual in the water said his snowmobile had sunk when he was skipping from one shore to the next in over 15 feet of water! The snowmobile was recovered and enforcement taken for careless operation

[rockpt]

Late in the afternoon on Friday, July 28, we were on our way to LOTW driving on Highway 72 near Red Lake when I saw a 21' DC fishing boat sitting on the grass in the ditch next to the road with a pickup truck and a boat trailer nearby, and about ten people standing around scratching their heads. Looked like the driver had made a sharp angle turn off the highway onto the narrow drive and the trailer hit the culvert at an angle and the boat came tumbling off. I immediately turned to my wife and said that's why I constantly tell you to make wide turns.

[archer59]

Hey... anybody else forget their cell phone was in the lower pocket of their cargo pants?? I did.

at the boatramp this week. I am now waiting on a new battery. I used the old ziplock and rice trick to dry out the phone, but the battery was a gonner.

Nick

[Eric Wettschreck]

I've done that. And the dead phone as a result was a blessing to me.

My opinion is that cell phones are high on my list of things wrong with us.

[BLACKJACK]

I don't allow cell phones in my boat or my fishhouse!! I go fishing to relax, not to listen to a friend jabbering to his kid that he'll be home soon.

[Eric Wettschreck]

Last winter on our annual fellers only drunken trek to LOTW I threw my buddies cell phone down the hole cuz it wouldn't stop ringing.

[archer59]

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Last winter on our annual fellers only drunken trek to LOTW I threw my buddies cell phone down the hole cuz it wouldn't stop ringing.

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LMAO

[Ely Lake Expert]

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From this weeks co reports..

. A call was taken late in the week about a dirt bike operating on a public roadway near Gilbert. When CO Star and COC Sutherland arrived in the area a loud sound was heard that sounded and smelled like a two stroke motor, but not quite like a dirt bike. While going to a site near an area lake, fresh snowmobile tracks were discovered! When a large amount of noise and people were seen standing on a dock across the lake, the officers went to investigate. With more than 20 people on shore pulling on a rope leading to deep water, curiosity was too strong to drive by. Officers Starr and Sutherland could see a pontoon also with a rope going down to deep water. When asked, the individual in the water said his snowmobile had sunk when he was skipping from one shore to the next in over 15 feet of water! The snowmobile was recovered and enforcement taken for careless operation

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I was there fishing, for an in person perspective go 5 posts above your post that I quoted.

Ryan

[mtreno]

when are they going to make these things water proof....... i have had good luck with putting it on the dash of the truck with the defrost on high for a few hours. you would think that if i can get a water proof digital camera they got to be able to make a phone

[UdeLakeTom]

I read your article and that's why I added to comments that

your article made the CO reports....It kinda makes it more interesting to know when somebody witnesses the stupid things that go on in the reports (????)

[Shorelunch]

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when are they going to make these things water proof....... i have had good luck with putting it on the dash of the truck with the defrost on high for a few hours. you would think that if i can get a water proof digital camera they got to be able to make a phone

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I think the camera manufacturers like water about as much as the tackle people like northerns

[Ely Lake Expert]

dude lake Tom, I just had to quote this one more time to clarify the talk of this report

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From this weeks co reports..

. A call was taken late in the week about a dirt bike operating on a public roadway near Gilbert. When CO Star and COC Sutherland arrived in the area a loud sound was heard that sounded and smelled like a two stroke motor, but not quite like a dirt bike. While going to a site near an area lake, fresh snowmobile tracks were discovered! When a large amount of noise and people were seen standing on a dock across the lake, the officers went to investigate. With more than 20 people on shore pulling on a rope leading to deep water, curiosity was too strong to drive by. Officers Starr and Sutherland could see a pontoon also with a rope going down to deep water. When asked, the individual in the water said his snowmobile had sunk when he was skipping from one shore to the next in over 15 feet of water! The snowmobile was recovered and enforcement taken for careless operation

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First of all, they did not get called about any dirtbike on any road. People around here ride bikes and wheelers on roads and roadsides all the time and no one cares. Secondly, they were not in the area to "hear and smell a two stroke motor" The arrived at least 20 minutes after he sunk it and it was pretty dark already, so they didn't "spot fresh snowmobile tracks" either. Also, CO Sutherland was in full uniform, but Dan Starr who lives close by was in plain street clothes like someone called him at his house and said get to the boat landing as fast as you can, someone just sunk a snowmobile right by it. Also, it said that 20 people were pulling it up form deep water, talk, the pontoon pulled it up 5 feet from shore and 7 people unsuccessfully attemted to move it, then pulled it out with a wheeler a couple minutes later. The then lifted it into the back of a truck and then got ticketed.

I am sure whomever writes these DNR report won't appreciate this, but I was there. This event did happen, but I have to give the DNR report a big talk stamp.