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The Funniest Thing Youve Ever Seen On The Water Or At The Ramp


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I heard Roland Martin say once he was in a saltwater creek and ran his boat aground. Tide was falling and he had to wait on it to rise before he could get off. Worst sunburn of his life.

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Seen a boat launched without the anchor on the ramp, no rope off drifted the boat. He casted out a lure to catch the boat to drag it to shore.

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Bill Dance in one of the bloopers launched the boat with no pin in the tounge off went the boat and trailer in the water.

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Like some of you, I had the carabiner snap on my rope as I launched my boat one early Spring morning. I was alone. I heard a pop, looked in the rear view, watched my boat drift away, jumped out, ran to the end of the dock, stripped down and took the plunge. Luckily, the water temp was 65, chilly but not too bad. Glad I kept those beach towels stowed 'cuz I was nekkid as a jay bird.

Here's a real bone headed move. Me and my cousin were fishing in my "new" used Javelin one day, first time I took it out. We had fished this cove and I was gonna fire it up and hit another one. When I turned the key, nothing. After about 10 minutes of tinkering with battery cables and cussing like a sailor, it dawned on me. I had'nt locked the throttle all the way back before I killed the switch. I pulled the throttle back until it locked and she fired right up. He laughed at me for the rest of the day. Stoopid!

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Fishing crank baits in a pond with a buddy.

He was across the pond from me, as I was tying a different bait on and I saw him over head cast, and get snagged in a tree behind him.

Instead of turning, he proceeded to try and yank it free, while still holding the rod over his head.

 

Lure came loose, hit him in the head, and he yelled as he fell in face first in the water.

 

He didn't get hurt, but man that was funny...

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 This happened many years ago.It was November or December and I was the only person at the 80 acre lake  I was alone and  launching  my 15 foot Skeeter  tri hull   but it was not in the water far enough . So I get in the vehicle  and back it in a little farther and the wheels go off the end of the ramp and my boat which is now  unhooked   floats away . I cannot get my trailer out,  its stuck off the end of the ramp . I walk   through  the campground and found someone to help me. I wade out in the water and  its freezing , lift the trailer up and the guy drives  it out . Now I have to retrieve my boat which is still running . It floats about a quarter mile away and gets stuck in a weed bed .  I walk to it and then have to swim out and climb in . It was freezing but it was the only way to get it .I get it back to the ramp load up and go home .

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Took my boat to a rural boat ramp on Stumpy Pond on the Catawba-Wateree R chain. I had a 2WD Ford with the V-6. The drive out was so steep when I left it took me 3 running starts to get out.I thought I was gonna have to spend the night or walk out. I also got that same truck stuck with one trailer tire off my parents' boat ramp on Lake Wateree. I dumped the clutch and spun one tire until it laid down enough rubber to catch and pull out. The clutch was still stinking when I got back from fishing.

 

My current truck is a 4WD Silverado with the 5.3L V8. No more getting stuck.

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My first boat was a fisher aluminum bass boat with a 50 hp mercury.I pulled it with a 1984 Honda civic hatchback. one day I backed down the dock ,but could not get the boat off the trailor.I put my back against the Honda and pushed with my legs, the boat stayed but I went through the back window and crawled out the front door with no cuts.

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On the way to fish a new lake/pond, I hit some rough patches in the road.  I went to put my jon boat in the water and started fishing but after a few I noticed I started collecting water pretty badly in the jon boat.  I saw that the battery knocked off a rivet in the stern so I  was taking in water.  I had to drag the boat on land and lift it to drain the water (not a light boat).  after that I put a finesse worm in the hole to plug it so I could keep fishing.  This was sketchy because I was sinking in the lake where Susan Smith drowned her kids and where the SUV full of people drowned in it as well.

 

Another embarrassing moment was I borrow my brothers skiff to take to the beach while my center console was in the shop.  I went to put in the boat landing on the inter coastal and the ramp was steep.  I backed it down and hit the breaks and thereeeee went the boat.  The eye came apart from the boat and the boat went drifting off in the heavy current, luckily there was somebody there in the water that wrangled the boat and docked it for me.

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I was about 12 yrs old and was fishing with a buddy on a small farm pond, we had a small14 ft aluminum boat and there was this creek that ran off the main pond and through a field, presumably for the cows...anyway, we though it would be a good idea to paddle up the creek. There was an old wire fence blocking the passage, so In order to get the boat to the creek we would have to get low in the boat and slide under it.

My buddy is paddling from the back of the boat, and I lay back in the front and reach up and grab the fence to pull us through, that's when I realized that this was an electric fence! The jolt nearly sent me overboard, and the stream of obscenities was heard by my family across the pond..my friend laughed his ass off

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About five months ago, I was fishing Guntersville alone and ended up near the ramp I put in at. I had 10 minutes left to fish, so I fished around the ramp hoping for one laaaast bite (no luck).

When it was time to go, I trolled over to the dock, tied off, got out, and put my trailer in the water. About this time, there were two boats waiting on me to launch and a couple other boats that had just pulled out. A crowd was watching.

What did I do? I quickly got on the boat, started it up, and ran towards my trailer. About the time I normally feel the bump of hitting the bunks, I heard a loud bang with the screech of twisted metal. I forgot to pull the trolling motor up!

Thankfully the mounting bolts gave way and snapped before major damage was done. I quickly ran to the front of the boat before the whole motor went in the drink, hit reverse, realigned, and trailered the boat. It sure seemed like twenty people were staring and laughing, but it was probably only five or six.

Needless to say, every time I trailer the boat, I now triple check to make sure the trolling motor is pulled up! I also learned to not let other folks make me feel like I need to rush at the ramp. Too much bad stuff can happen there!

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My buddy and I normally fish small bodies of water in his 16' aluminum flat-bottom boat with a 50 HP Honda.  Our local fishing club was hosting a tournament on Toledo Bend and we didn't think his boat was up to the challenge.  No problem though, his father had just bought a brand new 21' Skeeter with a 250 HP Yamaha and he was kind enough to loan it to us.  We left the launch and made a short run (a few hundred yards) to our first fishing spot and fished a while.  We then decided that because we had this fine fishing machine to shuttle us around the vastness of Toledo Bend we might as well take advantage of it.  We got out into the boat lane and he put the hammer down.  We made it to our next spot which was several miles south and across the lake in no time.  We fished a while and decided to move again.  We headed north past our initial launch point.  We were moving and I was wearing out my arms holding on for dear life as we approached 70 mph. It was early afternoon and the wind was chopping up the surface of the lake pretty good.  When we stopped to fish again I asked my buddy, "Have you ever driven a boat that fast before?"  His reply:  "Never". 

 

Cheers,

Tony

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About ten years ago I went to a Kentucky Lake ramp early to get the take off for a tournament organized. As I proceeded to drop my boat off at the ramp I saw a white glow in the water.  Two inebriated fisherman had let the boat,trailer and truck sink out of sight while attempting to launch. They were pulled out by another boater.

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This summer fishing a back lake early in the year my buddy and I had some good fish on a dock pattern as the sun was getting up.  My buddy was super excited about fishing docks because he just dropped 400 bucks on an 8 foot long dock flipping set up and was getting his casts dialed in. We were making good progress down the bank hiiting all the docks when my buddythrew his first errant cast in an hour, right into the rope securing a gentleman's boat to his dock.  To make things better the gentleman was standing 25 yards away trying to start his weed eater.  The guy sees us and we get talking abot fishing turns out he is a local guide, and he asked me if i was fishing in the Kingston Canadian Open of fishing because he learned we tornament fish.  As I have to run the trolling motor up to his dock so my buddy can retrieve his jig the guy proceeds to tell me he is the tournament director for the Open.  Needless to say I was pretty embaresssed and couldn't run the trolling motor fast enough.  The guy could not have handled it any better at all and but I still had to swallow my pride.

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Funny stories.If you own or launch a boat,your gonna mess it up sometime==that's a given.

 

My neighbor ,right proud of his new Ford pickup, launched the 22' boat and proceeded to the far end of the parking lot,that is a far piece away. He didn`t want the chance of anyone hitting the shiny new truck.He returned to find no plug had been put in and the boat was sinking. Not a sprinter by any means he made it to the truck and hurried to the ramp. Excited, he could not get the trailer in straight and managed to bash the truck rear fender on the dock.He tried again  but still not good enough to load. So he jumped into waist deep water ,wallet and cell phone in pockets  to plug the hole. Once finally on the trailer he nearly blew  the tires with the extra weight. He still is unable to laugh about it.

Of course being the considerate soul I am I don`t gig him with it  BWWAAAAhahahah

C22

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I was brain dead after a long week of fishing and it was our last day.  I landed a good 7 or 8 lb catfish, took the hook out, and tossed him back in the water.  My dad asked, "what'd you do that for?"  I just stared blankly into the water and as casually as possible said "I don't know, but that was a d**n good fish".  We laughed for a couple minutes and decided at that point it was time to go home.

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I had went to Northern PA to fish with my son for a weekend a few years back, we were at a small [200 acre] electric motor lake with a small gravel ramp with no dock, there were some railroad ties spiked along the bank with a few cleats on them to tie to. I was standing on the bank as he pushed the boat off the trailer, and then threw the rope to me and he got in the truck and pulled the truck and trailer back to the lot. As I pulled the boat back toward the shore the rope simply came off the bow eye, he looped it through but never tied it!  I could only watch the boat float out into the lake until he got close enough for me to yell at him, there was no reason for me to swim out to the boat, I never would have been able to get in the boat once I would of got to it, to old, to fat. I never seen a guy strip to his underwear that fast in my life. Got the boat back and fished the rest of the morning. I was at a local lake one morning and had just launched my boat and I seen a guy standing at the end of the next dock with his hands in the air shaking his head as his boat floated out into the lake, I gave him a ride out to it so he didnt have to swim.

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Not the funniest, but I still chuckle to myself when I think of it.  It had been a long and productive catch and release morning.  Without so much as a thought, before heading back to the dock I caught an average fish of about 16", measured it with the aluminum ruler, tossed the fish onto the deck of the boat and released my $9 ruler to the lake.

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Not the funniest, but I still chuckle to myself when I think of it.  It had been a long and productive catch and release morning.  Without so much as a thought, before heading back to the dock I caught an average fish of about 16", measured it with the aluminum ruler, tossed the fish onto the deck of the boat and released my $9 ruler to the lake.

Haha . My brother used my needle nose pliers to get a hook out of the fish , then tossed them in the lake . I forgot about that until your story .

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Not the funniest, but I still chuckle to myself when I think of it.  It had been a long and productive catch and release morning.  Without so much as a thought, before heading back to the dock I caught an average fish of about 16", measured it with the aluminum ruler, tossed the fish onto the deck of the boat and released my $9 ruler to the lake.

 

 

Haha . My brother used my needle nose pliers to get a hook out of the fish , then tossed them in the lake . I forgot about that until your story .

 

I did a similar thing a couple of weekends ago.  It was cold and windy, and it was a PITA to change lures/tie knots.  I broke off a snagged jig, reeled up my line, got out a new jig, put on a trailer, then tossed it in the water.  When I picked up my rod, I realized I had never tied the new jig/trailer onto my line.  Would have been funny for the back-seat fisherman but I was by myself and didn't see a whole lot of humor in it.  :)

 

Tight lines,

Bob

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