Been a little slow in here...lets talk

[Deitz Dittrich]

Lets get a thread going... whats the stupidest thing you have ever done in a boat? I'm sure eveybody has sotries of releasing the wrong fish while culling, getting hooks stuck ect...

Mine happend in my garage in my boat. I was fisxing some wireing under my dash, and sat down in my seat to rest... What kind of DORK puts a crankbait on the seat of their boat?... Well you guessed it.. hook through boat seat, hook into Deitz seat... had to use my cell phone to call my wife from inside the house to come out with a hook clipper and a needle nose to remove... OUCH!!!

[EBass]

LOL

[Deitz Dittrich]

Ebass- you of all people have to have a story.. come on brother share it!... LOL

[Daze Off]

All I've got is the proverbial drain-plug error. Was sitting out in the middle of the Rum River after launch and getting out rods and retying when I opened a FRONT compartment and saw my tackle trays floating. NOT a good sign. Beat it over to the landing, grabbed the trailer and hauled her out of the water where it took well over 25 mins to pump it out. Only good thing was no one else was there watching the "(Contact Us Please) at the ramp".

Only other one....

Once while fishing with the family I had to do one of the proverbial, "Dad, something's wrong with my reel" deals and I asked my wife to run the trolling motor while I worked on getting things fixed. I explained how to oeprate the foot pedal and got busy fixing the reel. A few minutes passed and I realized that we were going pretty fast in circles. I looked up and all the boats around us were watching and laughing as my wife, oblivious to everything, merrily kept spinning the trolling motor to the point where the cord nearly pulled out of the head because it was wrapped around the shaft so many times.

Daze Off

[Dan Brelje]

While trying to get the hook out of a northern i set my rod down on the front deck and started in on the hook. The northern was about 4lbs and pulled a "O he's jumping/shaking", ended up dropping him back into the lake...still attached to my lure...too fast for me he took the pole with him. Drove around for about 20 min looking for a floating cork handle, no such luck.

[Deitz Dittrich]

LMAO@ Dan- I can vouch for the fact that cork rods do float.. but not with reels on them.. LMAO.

[Fishing_High]

last yea caught a little snaker northern i was holding it by the back when it decided to shake right outta my hand as it slipped out of my hand the one of the hooks on the crankbait went straight into my finger had to get my friend to stop the fish from flopping while the hook was deep in the finger once he got a hold of it i got the fish hook out and pulled that fing thing out. Man that was some pain

[Dan Brelje]

LMAO. that makes sense now, even that gander combo for $20 won't float..

Got another one but not from the boat, the dock got me this time. So, i'd been using the trolling motor pretty hard for a day or two and decided i should charge it up for the weekend ahead. I got out the 100ft extension cord and headed for the boat. Walking backwards to make sure the cord didn't get off the dock i was doing pretty good, until i didn't look where the dock ended...So much for keeping the cord out of the water.

[RickyBobby]

Another Northern story..... instead of reaching for the hook-outs to take a small pike off of the rattle trap that he hit, I decided to try and reach in by hand. The result was the pike and my right thumb on one treble hook, and my left index finger and left thumb on the other treble hook. all hooks were buried past the barbs. Luckily I had a partner along who could first subdue the pike, and then perform field surgery on me.

[dlg]

Many years ago, my (now ex) wife and I were casting spinnerbaits for northerns on a small lake up north. They were going crazy, and we were having a great time until I managed to sink my spinnerbait into her scalp. I had never heard quite that type of scream. As we headed in to shore with the blades twirling, she mentioned some things to me that I won't share due to rules violations. When we reached the hospital in Bemidji, they took her into one of the exam rooms for an extraction. When I showed up for moral support, they had her head in a vise in order to remove the hook. I didn't laugh out loud, but it was a rather funny sight. As we drove back to the cabin, she handed me spinnerbait without saying a word. We never spoke of it again.

[TB Basser]

Good one Dietz. I got one for you guys. More embarassing than stupid. Anyway, Quite a few years back, when I first got into bass fishing I was fishing in a Silverado Pro-

Am as an am on N/S Center. All the am's would back the Pro in and then go park their rigs and get picked up at the dock. Well at the dock my pro was attempting to pick me up from, there was another boat already tied up. That wasn't so bad, but he had his motor trim completely out of the water so my pro couldn't pull along side. He could only come in bow first. Of course, you need to catch the boat so it doesn't hit the dock. Well, I attempted to stop it and then with grace and coordination jump in the boat. Of course he is reversing his motor at about the same time. Well you can now imagine that I didn't quite make it into the boat. I did manage to grab hold of the trolling motor but that didn't help much. Into the lake I went. The worst part of the whole ordeal is that there are roughly 100 boats in the water watching it all unfold and laughing and hooting at the whole thing. At least I cashed a check. Just one of many. lol

[Juan Grande]

I've got two funny ones.

Just got a brand new boat last spring and took it down to Medicine for its maiden voyage. This is my first boat mind you. The launch goes pretty smoothly and I even remembered to check the plug.

We get about 200 yards from shore and my wife goes to the front strorage compartment to get a life jacket out and there's water in there. She's like "Honey there's water up here." I'm thinking "(Contact Us Please)? I checked the plug!" I run to the back and unscrew the transom well cover and sure as heck she's filled up to the top. I reach down into the water to feel if the plug is in an it's not.

By this time my wife is crying because she's two months pregnant and she tells me "there's no way in he** I'm swimming to shore in 45 degree water!'

I remember (from reading it on this site) that if you leave the plug out and punch it that the water will drain out. I punch it and all the water rushes to the back of the boat and overflows the well and starts pouring onto the carpet. My wife is even more hysterical now. She yells "Do you even know what the he** you're doing?" She then starts to yell for help to some people on the dock.

Already long story short, I found out the hard way that a visual check of the plug is not good enough. The plug was in, but not tight and it popped out while in the water. Needless to say, I push the plug with my finger before launching now. In the end, the maiden voyage lasted about 15 minutes.

Last summer I was fishing up on Carlos in Alex. and brought some relatives out to fish. After all, I was an experienced pro after having my boat all of three months. We decided to anchor and I threw the anchor overboard and the rope wrapped around my fire extinguisher which was mounted on the front of the console. It ripped the head off the extinuisher and there was foam flying as the thing hit the water. Had it not happended so fast my boat would have been covered. I've never seen two little girls laugh so hard.

[Meat-Run]

How about a 49" muskie wrapped up really good in a muskie net and as I go to untangle him he does this alligator roll that put full treble threw my right thumb. Now the hook cutter is out of reach and I'm right handed. Thank god my buddy was there, well it was his fish anyways but he had to finish pushing the hook threw my thumb before "alligator" did another death roll....well guess what the muskie did another and ripped my thumb enough that the barb came threw enough to cut.

Well after almost fainting we cut the hook, took pictures and conitued to fish the rest of the evening bleeding all over his aluminum boat and boated 4 more muskies in about 1 1/2 hours!!!!

Talk about an interesting evening. Some crazy things happen around the full moon by the way

mr

[ole matty]

as being too lazy to used plier to take plastic protection off the hook, i decided to use small knife as i was holding in my left hand and used knife to slice the plastic but went too hard n fast and stuck it in my thumb all way into bone..not cool

[Bullwinkle]

I didn't happen to me but last year my partner and I were fishing a tournament. We got deep in the slop before he needed to clean the trolling motor prop off. He pulls the motor up gives it a few spins which inturn throw some water on the fiberglass. As he goes to let the motor back in the water he slips on said water and "down goes Frazier". He ends up hanging on to the trolling motor, one foot still in the boat (almost wrapped around his head) the other soaked in water up to his hip. You should of seen the look of fear in his eyes as I run up to the bow and pulled him up to safety. He's swearing, I'm laughing and I proceed to tell him that the tournament rules prohibit anyone from leaving there boat during tournament hours. Go figure ... he's still my partner but I still give him dump to this day.

[MattWtech]

haha those are great stories, ill follow up on an extension cord story that has nothing to do with fishing, but the other half of life, gettin the chicks. was throwin a bon fire a long time ago, and for some reason god knows why i was running an extension cord to my backyard, cant even remember what for! well i was dragging it, with about 15 ft of it behind me.. as i walked through the side door i looked back and realized the door was gonna close on my cord, so naturally i JERKED it so it wouldnt get caught, and sure enough the heavy hard plastic double female-connector side comes flying through the air and nails me in the nuts.. try toughing that out in front of a group of chicks!

[ssaamm]

Very embarrassing story. Had my most productive day of work ever and came home, and the wife told be about the need we had in our house for window treatments (I call them curtains). The estimate was out of this world--too expensive for my needs. I decided that I should go fishing instead of speaking my mind. It was a great night on Pelican Lake in Breezy Point. The bass were hitting surface lures. Nothing could be finer. I think the Twins were winning, too. Window treatments didn't seem so bad after all. I was ready to go. It was 9:30 or so. My fairly new Yamaha 90 would turn over but not start. I had a long ways back to the ramp. I was screwed. My trolling motor would have gotten me about 1/2 way back. Luckily, two guys drove by. I flagged them down. They gave me the tow of shame back to the ramp. About 50yds from the access. One guy hollars back, "Hey, did you check the kill switch?" My jaw dropped, and she started right up. We all had a good laugh. Offered to buy them a beer a watering hole, and they declined. Live and learn. Yes, we did get the curtains, and I got a new Shimano baitcaster. Pretty good deal.

[Ray Esboldt]

Juan,

That is a great story.

I've done lots of stupid things in and with a boat. One of the more memorable moments came many years ago when I was trying jockey my boat onto my roller trailer on an access that was too shallow to drive the boat on. The water was not cold but pretty sloppy, and I didn't want to get wet. I was balancing on the frame of the trailer trying to hook the bow eye with the strap. And, I was trying to look cool for a very attractive Mom and her 7 year old boys. I slipped, fell tail first in the water, completely submerged most of my body, and stood up muddy and weedy. The hot Mom was laughing hysterically at me. The young boys, bless their hearts, looked very concerned. They repeatedly asked if I was OK or hurt. I told them only my pride was injured.

[RK]

HIya -

A few years ago I was on a pike trip in NW Ontario with some guys I knew. A couple of the other guys in camp were from Kentucky. True, honest to god hillbillys, and proud of it. Great guys, but I could understand about 1/3 of what they said, their accents were so thick. One guy was named Danny, and I forget the other fellow's name now.

So we're fishing a river mouth, dead baiting pike, and Danny and his buddy are right next to us jigging for walleyes along the edge of a pool. Pretty soon, nature calls and Danny has to put his buddy on shore. So Danny drops him off, and is just starting to pull back out into the current to go back to fishing while his partner takes care of business. The guy's just starting to walk up the bank, the boat is about 10 feet off shore, and a yearling black bear - probably just been kicked out by momma and dumb as a post - walks out of the trees about 40 feet from Danny's pal. The guy on shore was a pretty big dude, and not exactly the athletic type. It was early May, about 45 degrees, kind of misty - just a raw spring day - but to these Kentucky guys it apparently felt like 10 below. He had on big heavy boots, rain pants, 2 sweatshirts, a jacket and a rain parka...so he was pretty loaded down. He sees the bear, and bolts back for the boat. Danny was still in reverse when his friend came scrambling over the bow, head first. All you could see where his feet, toes pointing down, over the bow. I don't know if he walked on water, or what, but he didn't even get his cuffs wet. When we got done laughing, we asked him what happened. He said "Whelp, I had to [PoorWordUsage] powerful bad, but I'm a-skeert of them bears..." The bear had spooked and scrambled up a tree, and didn't look like he planned on coming down any time soon, so I asked him what he was going to do since he couldn't go take care of business on shore with the bear . He said "I don't reckon I got to worry about it no more after that bear done snuck up on me..."

About an hour later, the same poor guy hooked about a 42" pike on a walleye jig. Fought it to the boat, and was just reaching over the side to pop the jig out - the jig was right at the end of the fish's nose. He had tension on the line, so the pike was head up, tail down in the water. As soon as he reached for the fish, the fish did that pike open the mouth and kick the tail thing. The fish basically swam right up his arm, and his whole forarm about half way to the elbow disappeared into the fish's mouth. Of course, like pike do, it clamped down. He roared and pulled his arm back, and toppled over backwards, fish and all, into the bottom of the boat. We couldn't see in the boat, but we could hear the fish going berserk-bang bang bang on the hull. He was screaming non-stop "OH GOD DannyDannyDannyDanny OH GOD he's a-killin' me Danny help me DannyDannyDanny help me Danny he's a-killing me..." Danny was collapsed laughing in the back of the boat, so he was no help at all. When Danny finally got his act together the pried the fish off his arm. Turns out the cold day saved him - he had so many clothes on, he had 3 or 4 small scraches is all. His hand went so far down the fish's gullet it was past the teeth. His rain gear was shredded. If it had been 70 instead of 45...

So in the span of about an hour, this poor guy gets the [PoorWordUsage] scared out of him by a baby bear, and his arm eaten by a pike. His only comment was "No sir Danny, Canada is no place for a man from Kentucky..."

[EBass]

That was the best RK! ROFLMAO

[CHISAGO ROW-BOAT]

WELL WE ALL HAVE A LOT OF STORIES TO REMEMBER. . AS I SET HERE IN THE SPRING THINKING I SHOULD BE OUT ON A LAKE WITH MY BEST FRIEND . MY THOUGHTS BRING ME BACK A FEW YEARS THE BIG MARINE LAKE. THE DAY WAS COOL AND THE BASS WERE SURE TO BITE. MY FRIEND HAD HIS BOAT READY THE GO AND WE LAUNCH AS FAST AS WE COULD .STOPPED AT THE FIRST SPOT AND FISHED A SHORE LINE WHEN WE WENT TO GO TO THE NEXT SPOT THE BOAT WOULDN'T GO UP ON PLANE SO AFTER A QUICK INSPECTION WE FOUND THE PLUG WAS SITTING IN THE SPLASH COMPARTMENT WE DIDN'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THE LANDING SO WE TROLLED UP TO A NICE SAND BEACH AND MY FRIEND JUMPED IN THE WATER AND TRY TO INSERT THE PLUG INTO THE HOLE. U KNOW MOST BASS BOATS HAVE A CUT AWAY STEP BACK TO TO ACCESS THE DRAIN HOLE . M Y BUDDY HAD TO DIVE UNDER THE BOAT THE PUT THE PLUG IN HE WAS DOWN UNDER FOR QUITE A WHILE AND THE WATER TEMP WAS AROUND 55 HE GOT INTO THE BOAT AND I THINK HIS VOICE WAS A FEW NOTES HIGHER HE PUSHED US OUT AND WITH OUT A WORD HE HEADED FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE LAKE . HE LOOKED COLD WHEN WE STOPPED I THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BLOW DRY HIS CLOSES. BUT NO HE SAID THAT HE HAD A TO CHANGE . TELL ME NOT TO LOOK HE STOOD ON THE FRONT DECK AND STRIPPED NAKED TO THE WORLD AND. STARTED CHANGING. WELL I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO NOT LOOK AND BEING A ARTIST I HAD HAD A LOT OF LIFE DRAWING CLASSES SO I FIGURE I MITE JUST OPEN MY EYES JUST A LITTLE MY WHAT A SIGHT HE BLOCKED THE SUN WITH HIS SILHOUETTED AND THE TRANSLUCENCE LIGHT SHINNING THROUGH HIS BODY IS SOMETHING I WILL NEVER FORGET AND BELIEVE I HAVE TRIED WELL THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS I NOW KNOW WHAT THE HOKEY POKEY IS ALL ABOUT . YOU SHOULD KNOW WHO I’M TALKING ABOUT.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Dude, that hurts!... some things need to stay secret.. LOL

[Superduty]

Awesome stories. I too have done the spinnerbait hook in hand past the barb while the pike was flopping. Hooked my partner one day as he tried to net my fish. The rattletrap shot out of the fish and into his back like it came out of a sling shot. One of the funnier things I've seen was on my way to a tournament. I caught up to another competitor on his way to the ramp and noticed something bouncing behind his boat in my headlights. Sure enough he pulled the extension cord for his battery charger all the way to the lake!

[Dan Brelje]

Big Marine + Bass Boat + Hokey Pokey = LOL.

[Bullwinkle]

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WELL I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO NOT LOOK AND BEING A ARTIST I HAD HAD A LOT OF LIFE DRAWING CLASSES SO I FIGURE I MITE JUST OPEN MY EYES JUST A LITTLE MY WHAT A SIGHT

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Where you standing next to me at the trough at the Twins game the other day. I think the moral of the story should really be ... JUST LOOK AWAY MAN, JUST LOOK AWAY! LOL. And by the way if the hokey pokey is what it's all about .... did he put his left one in and shake it all about?