What's The Worst Thing That's Ever Happened To You While Fishing?

[BASSclary]

I fell/slid off the rocks at Aquia landing. The water was low so the rocks were wet and covered in that slimy sh**. I stepped down to lip my bass and phew! I slid in on my back. I had numerous scratches and cuts (Which is pretty dangerous,... Its the Potomac) but I did have the presence of mind to hold my combo way up in the air. Not a scratch 8) Man's gotta have his priorities lol

[StinkyBass]

i've lost 3 phones... i guess i get to join the "should've left the phone in the car" club

[wisconsin heat]

breaking a rod always sucks

[fxdwgkd]

Luckily I have never had many bad thing happen to me. Last year at KY Lake the bilge pump quit working on the boat and the water was leaking in at a fairly good clip. So I have the great idea to have my friend run the boat on plane while I remove the bilge plug and let the water drain. All was going well untill he decided he needed to turn the boat and the steering rod jabbed me in hte chest. I was yelling at him to turn the other way but he could not hear me over the engine. It ended up tearing my skin and left a pretty good scar. Got the water out though!

[outdoorsman110]

I fell/slid off the rocks at Aquia landing. The water was low so the rocks were wet and covered in that slimy sh**. I stepped down to lip my bass and phew! I slid in on my back. I had numerous scratches and cuts (Which is pretty dangerous,... Its the Potomac) but I did have the presence of mind to hold my combo way up in the air. Not a scratch 8) Man's gotta have his priorities lol

Always put the combo first! Hahaha, yeah, that potomac is terrible, I love fishing it but man.. That MRSA infection I got was scary. Gotta watch out.

[ww2farmer]

Lots of broken crap, rods, reels, things on the boat, etc....... I have dropped at least three phones in the water, and my landing net once. One time I stuffed a wave and the water took $100's of dollars worth of tungsten sinkers and other assorted terminal tackle in a plano box off my front deck. Been stuck with hooks a few times. I have had my boat get away from me lauching it twice when I forgot to hook the bow rope I use to the trailer. I took some allergy meds once before gong out, the fishng was slow, so I sat down for a minute, next thing I know I woke up and the boat had drifted the complete length of the lake (a few miles) while I was sleeping sprawled out on the center seats. None of this stuff seems as bad as when I don't do well fishing though....it just burns me in a way I can't describe.

[J Francho]

I had low blood sugar, in my kayak, about a mile from shore. Imagine my horror when I realized I had forgotten emergency glucose, and had to paddle to shore for help. My BG was 32. Luckily I phoned friends that were on the water, and they met me at the docks with a bottle of Mountain Dew. Thank God for them. I told them if they saw my paddles stop moving just to call 911. I was THAT scared.

I never forget a quick source of sugar anymore. Ever.

[outdoorsman110]

I had low blood sugar, in my kayak, about a mile from shore. Imagine my horror when I realized I had forgotten emergency glucose, and had to paddle to shore for help. My BG was 32. Luckily I phoned friends that were on the water, and they met me at the docks with a bottle of Mountain Dew. Thank God for them. I told them if they saw my paddles stop moving just to call 911. I was THAT scared.

I never forget a quick source of sugar anymore. Ever.

that's scary man!!! Jezz!

[0119]

Fishing on a beach one day with a buddy, he says hey a cop car is pulling up behind us. I didnt think anything of it since I was a cop. I looked back and saw that it was one of my agency and we were miles out of our jurisdiction. A deputy stepped out looking square in my eyes and I got a sinking feeling. He walked down to me and told me my Dad had a stroke and was in a hospital 50 miles away and not expected to make it. He survived but was a vegetable

[Dakota wendt]

My friend and I were fishing a lake with 30 mph winds rain and it was about 45 out caught a lot of fish decided to head in got half way back and ran out of gas. It was an interesting ride back to the ramp in 3 foot waves with a trolling motor that was going dead!!

[mrmacwvu1]

The first time that I went fishing on lake Erie I was hung over. I had been deep sea fishing many times and never got sea sick. However I always took medicine the night before so I was fine. Well I did not know how far out we were going out to perch fish. Needless to say the ways kicked up and they issued a small craft advisory. I turned gree. I do not think that I have ever felt that bad before. It was somewhere between the drunken college days hugging the toilet lying to God that you will never drink again and the the worst case of food poisoning ever. I will never make that mistake again. The dick move is that my father-in-law took his medicine and did not think to tell me.

[ww2farmer]

The first time that I went fishing on lake Erie I was hung over. I had been deep sea fishing many times and never got sea sick. However I always took medicine the night before so I was fine. Well I did not know how far out we were going out to perch fish. Needless to say the ways kicked up and they issued a small craft advisory. I turned gree. I do not think that I have ever felt that bad before. It was somewhere between the drunken college days hugging the toilet lying to God that you will never drink again and the the worst case of food poisoning ever. I will never make that mistake again. The dick move is that my father-in-law took his medicine and did not think to tell me.

The first time I went out on Erie I got a little woozy, and I was not hung over. It was not all the rough either, rolling 3-4 footers,I was fine bobbing up and down in the waves for a few hours, then I broke off on something and when I concentrated on re-tying.......it hit me. I didn't puke , put it felt like I was going to at any moment. The rest of the day sucked, and once it hits, there is nothing you can do to stop it. Back on solid ground, it took about 10-15 mins of sitting in the AC in my buddys truck and I felt ok again. Now I don't go out there with out taking something before we hit the water. Even tho the last few times I have been there it has been calm, I take some anyways.

[ww2farmer]

To add to this thread..............today for the first time ever I fell out of the boat.

[outdoorsman110]

To add to this thread..............today for the first time ever I fell out of the boat.

ouch man, you okay?

[tugsandpulls]

my wife called me to come home

[Connor Ramsdell]

i unknowingly fished over a fresh human corpse stuck in a car...what a shock to discover the next day why there were so many helicopters flying over my fishing hole =[

[outdoorsman110]

i unknowingly fished over a fresh human corpse stuck in a car...what a shock to discover the next day why there were so many helicopters flying over my fishing hole =[

woah

[theonethatgotaway]

i had some good falls but nothing compares to leaving your fishing glasses at home

[theonethatgotaway]

i unknowingly fished over a fresh human corpse stuck in a car...what a shock to discover the next day why there were so many helicopters flying over my fishing hole =[

man thats crazy

[ww2farmer]

ouch man, you okay?

Fine, thanks for asking. Got nothing but wet, and actually laughed about it.

[iceintheveins]

I've had fish drive several hooks into my fingers, which sucks bigtime. By far though, the worst thing was when my 16 year collie english shepherd mix Ginger passed away from unknown causes, but probably old age while I was gone fishing. Still miss her terribly to this day. I also lost my 16 old border collie mix Sam, who passed away of his cancer at home with my mom while I was gone fishing. Wish I would have been there, as both died suddenly and unexpectedly while I wasn't there, as we thought both of them had quite a bit of time left before he started to suffer. I will miss them forever, but I am very lucky to have a wonderful young German Shorthair/Aussie Shepherd mix named Reiver.

[Missouribassman95]

Nothing terrible, but one of the ponds I fish has an electric fence all along one side of the lake. well I was fishing on a fallen down tree in the water, and as I was trying to get down I slipped, scraped up my knee real bad, and landed right on the electric fence. Shocked the crap outta my arm.

[outdoorsman110]

Nothing terrible, but one of the ponds I fish has an electric fence all along one side of the lake. well I was fishing on a fallen down tree in the water, and as I was trying to get down I slipped, scraped up my knee real bad, and landed right on the electric fence. Shocked the crap outta my arm.

I peed on one.. Lol. Dares gone to far.

[outdoorsman110]

I've had fish drive several hooks into my fingers, which sucks bigtime. By far though, the worst thing was when my 16 year collie english shepherd mix Ginger passed away from unknown causes, but probably old age while I was gone fishing. Still miss her terribly to this day. I also lost my 16 old border collie mix Sam, who passed away of his cancer at home with my mom while I was gone fishing. Wish I would have been there, as both died suddenly and unexpectedly while I wasn't there, as we thought both of them had quite a bit of time left before he started to suffer. I will miss them forever, but I am very lucky to have a wonderful young German Shorthair/Aussie Shepherd mix named Reiver.

That's terrible man.. I'm sorry. Losing a dog is probably one of the hardest things I've gone thru.

[Tucson]

Never broke a rod in my life but last trip out I broke 3 of them. #1 Landed a small bass and when I released him the tip had broken off about 2" down. #2 snagged up and the rod broke trying to release the hook. #3 Set the hook on a Senko strike and snapped off the rod tip about 4" down. I literally ran out of spinning rods and had to use my bait caster for everything. Just ordered a new rod this morning.

As bad as that was........I once ran extremely low on cocktail ice. Thought I might have to drink tepid Kamikazes but I made it back ok. Guess someone was looking out for me!