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

[clh121787]

Swimbait fishing with a buddy he reties leaving a hell of alot of left over tag line. Clips the wrong one and threw a rof5 hud68 down the drain. Followed by a few words they don't teach in school.

[Ratherbfishing]

This summer I witnessed something I never guessed I'd see in a million years.  A friend and I were on a marshy lake near catttails.  I could see a muskrat on his "hut" and I expected, since we were some distance, that he would go about his business.  Instead, the little critter swam right up to the boat.  I figured he'd see his mistake, dive down and then swim off but he circled the boat twice.  I half expected him to attempt to climb in the boat-he seemed so eager to be near us.   He didn't do that but he did stop along the side and began nibbling on some green plant.  Then he started squeaking plaintively like he wanted something.  Apparently, he got bored with us because he eventually swam once more around the boat and then headed back to his hut.  THAT was pretty darn funny!  I have a little camera footage of him but I'm technologically challenged and don't know how to download it.

[rboat]

I know we were all new to boat launching at some point, but love to watch someone with a new boat try to figure out how to get that boat off the trailer without getting their new trailer tires wet. It is also fun, when their trailer is backed in too far and they can't figure out why the boat won't center on the trailer. Classic!

[windjinx]

I was at a local ramp that I have fished out of for years. At the time I had a standard shift Ford Ranger Pick-up and a 16' aluminum boat on trailer. It was an early spring day where the air temp was warm but the water temp was around 50 degrees. I back my rig down on the short ramp. Put on the parking brake leave the truck in first gear and turned it off. Went back to launch the boat. While pushing the boat off the trailer, all of a sudden I feel the truck and trailer start to go down the ramp slowly with me standing on the trailer. I immediately jump in the bed of the truck, then out of it and get inside the truck to get everything stopped. I never moved so fast bet it only took me 15 seconds. Of course not in time to keep the trailer tires from going off the end of the ramp. So, I give it a couple of tries to get it out with the truck to no avail with the springs catching on the ramp. I know that I will have to get in the water to get it undone. While I was doing this, another boater was there to launch. It is an older gentlemen and his son in his mid twenties. I explained to them what happened and asked if they would give me a hand. So in the cold water I go about up to my waist. While I was passing a rope under the trailer to keep it lifted. The son boldly and proudly commences to tell me several times in different ways that if I had the Dodge truck that he has he would be able to just ****** it out of there. So once I got the trailer lifted the gentlemen held the rope tight.  I easily got the trailer pulled back up the ramp and went to park the truck. On my way back to the boat, the son proceeds to start backing his trailer down the ramp, as I am watching he then to my amazement backs his trailer right off the end of the ramp, even with the signs stating "ramp ends here" and seeing what I just went through. I look at the father who was standing on the dock drop his head down and just start shaking it back and forth. Then the son starts trying to pull the trailer back up and all you can hear is his Dodge truck motor rev up, then the bang of the springs hitting the ramp. After several attempts he get out of the truck and just looks at the trailer knowing what he must do after seeing what I had just done. Being that I was already wet from mine I offered to assist them with their trailer. Of course they accepted my offer. After just a few minutes the son pulls the trailer up the ramp and goes to park the truck. The father thanked me and then said " You're a better man than I am. If he been talking all that crap to me,  he would have had to of gotten wet!" 

[fisherrw]

once I saw a guys truck roll down into the lake after he forgot to put the emergency brake on... they had to dive down and put a strap on the truck and pull it out

[Ratherbfishing]

SOME of this is truly funny and SOME of the outcomes were borne out of sheer stupidity but before you laugh TOO loud, remember that it might be YOU next.

 

I had a 5 speed pickup with which I used to back my boat/trailer down ramps but that didn't last long.  I broke out in cold sweats on more than one occassion.

[bassdisaster]

#1 backing my boat in the water, rope comes unhooked and boat starts floating off so I jump out of my truck and proceed to sprint towards the dock and make the 10+ foot jump into my boat. I still haven't realized the athletic potential I showed that day.

#2 we have an old guy we call speedo man who is always laying on the dock only wearing his sweet speedo at the county boat ramp. One Day im going to wear a speedo and lay on the dock then give him a hard time while he launches his 1987 Jet Ski. Payback

[lo n slo]

We finished our work a little early this afternoon. I got home around 2:30, thought I'd drop the boat in and fish til dark. So I quickly hooked up, took off the cover, grabbed my tackle bag, and a bottle of water...work boots, caulked up fingers and all. Happy boy I was, giddy even. Got to the ramp, dropped her in, tied off, ran back to the truck, but it would'nt crank. Plenty of battery but she would'nt fire up. There I sat, on the ramp, cussing like a sailor.

After a furious rally of cuss words, I called my work partner. We ended up towing truck, trailer and boat back to the house, with a chain. No fishing for me. The guy from the garage is coming tomorrow. The end.

[68camaro]

After an all-night crappie fishing session we went back to ramp and when we got there around dawn we saw a real nice bassboat half on a dock and half in water next to boat ramp.

[corn-on-the-rob]

Not that is is drastic but I was with a buddy on a pond, I went to tie up a punch rig. I was holding a $7 tungsten weight between my thumb and index finger when a lady bug landed on my other shoulder. I lightly kind of smacked it off and when my hand stopped its motion, the tungsten didn't....  BLOOP!

[Bankbeater]

Several years ago, instead of buying gas for the boat on the water, we were going into town and filling up gas cans a local gas station.  One afternoon we run into town, fill up the cans, and when we get back it was time to eat.  So we finish dinner, clean up, and then head out for a few hours of night fishing.  About three hours and 5 miles later the boat runs out of gas, and we remembered that the gas cans were still in the truck.  Luckily we had some paddles in the boat, and the wind was with us.

[Ohio Archer]

Early morning launch on Lake Okeechobee back in the late '80s.  Guy next to me is backing down, about halfway down the ramp.  I hear a loud crunch and a bunch of hollering.  His nice, fiberglass boat is laying on the ramp about 10' from the water.  He had silicone the trailer bunks the day before and unhooked the bow strap before backing down.  One hit on the brakes and off it came.  Several of us had to lift the bow up as another guy backed the trailer underneath the boat.  Don't remember the damage but it taught everyone there a big lesson.

 

Then there was the time I tried to launch my boat in Destin, FL without taking the back trailer straps off...and the time I put the drain plug in the wrong hole before a tournament in the Everglades. Fun times...

[scaleface]

 

 

Then there was the time I tried to launch my boat in Destin, FL without taking the back trailer straps off...and the time I put the drain plug in the wrong hole before a tournament in the Everglades. Fun times...

LOL . I forgot to take the straps off too. I knew something was wrong when the boat started drifting sideways .

[Fishing Rhino]

This story goes back about sixty years.  My best friend's father sold Scott Atwater outboards along with boats from several manufacturers.  Scott Atwater had an annual convention for the New England dealers. and I was invited to go with them.  It was held at Vaughn Monroe's (yes, the guy who sang Racing With the Moon) Meadows on route 9 in Framingham, MA.  It was close by Lake Cochituate, where Scott Atwater had several boats to demonstrate their new line of motors.  You could ride in all manner of boats from skiffs to runabouts, to small cabin cruisers and a little semi-hydroplane manufactured by a company named Shoup, if memory serves.

 

It was a small boat, like a hydroplane but had a curved rather than a flat bottom.  It had a cockpit like a hydroplane.  Anyway,  this fellow in a suit was going to take the Shoup for a spin.  He was wearing a suit which made it all the better.  He stepped into the boat and immediately the boat listed toward the dock allowing water to enter via the cockpit.  He quickly moved to the other side of the boat, causing the water in the boat to move to that side of the boat.

 

Well, he got a good rhythm going and everything unfolded in slow motion, with more water entering each time the boat listed from one side to the other..  A half dozen back and forth movements and the boat finally started to sink.  He instinctively wrapped his arms around a supporting piling, which had been freshly coated with creosote.  He tried wrapping his legs around the piling.  He may as well have tried to catch a greased pig, as he slowly slid down the piling until only his head was above the water.

 

Finally, someone tossed him a line, and two or three "rescuers" managed to hoist him back onto the dock.  The front of his suit, the sleeves and legs were coated with creosote.

 

Sixty some years later I still laugh when I think about it.

[Glenn]

Now that we're looking ahead at a long, cold winter, I thought it'd be a good time to bring this back into the fold.

 

Enjoy!

[Alex from GA]

Fishing offshore in CA many many years ago a fellow in another boat was or thought he was hooked up to a good fish.  The water was 30 or 40' deep and I knew he had the bottom.  Each swell would take line and he'd gain on the trough.  I motored up to him and asked if he'd like to use my gaff.  Still having a smile over that.

[Susky River Rat]

I saw a rollback with a trailer and boat on it. Lowered the roll back bed. Winched down the trailer and launched the boat.

[thediscochef]

Theres a state park around here with a lake in it. On the dam of that lake, there is an educational plaque thing about Uranus. I don't know why that's the spot they chose to talk about Uranus. But it's there. I learned about Uranus at Purtis Creek State Park, with my buddy

[Pat Brown]

I was pretty excited to cast a glide bait around some bridge piers where I saw shad schooling a previous trip but didn't bring my swimbait rod.  We idled up to casting distance and killed everything and my first cast the glide bait hits the concrete bridge and explodes into lots of pieces.  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

Goodbye 40$.

 

One time my son was getting on them really good on a swim jig bite and I remembered I had a perfect perch imitation swim jig in my little tackle satchel.  I had recently started tying the double pitzen or 'three tag end' knot.  I excitedly cut my flipping jig off and tied on my perch swim jig and cut three times and then threw my jig into the lake...unfortunately one of the three cuts I made was the main line. 😭. Goodbye 7$

 

Night fishing early in my night fishing days, I wasn't hip to the whole 'treble hooks in the dark are dumb' thing and lost more than a few walking topwaters and ploppers to treelines in the dark.  Whoops.

[N Florida Mike]

I was fishing with 2 good friends that are Brothers. We were fishing the cypress tree line in the St Johns near Welaka Fl. We had seen several cottonmouths in the trees. The younger brother Jeff ( who I still fish with) said quietly to me “ watch this “ . He had took the hook off his line and tied the biggest worm he had to the line. I was in the middle, and the older brother Jack in the front. Jeff quietly slips up next to me and flipped that worm on Jacks neck. You’d have to know Jack, but he is  a outdoorsman and man’s man . That’s what made it doubly hilarious when he came absolutely unglued. He was thrashing around wildly and hollering. I think he would have jumped in the water and took off had he not heard us laughing. Once he realized what happened he came at jeff and I was in the middle. I was successful in stopping an assault that day.🤣

[Woody B]

I launched my boat once without take on the the tie downs off the transom.  I was wondering why one side of my trailer was floating.   

 

Probably the funniest thing I've seen someone else do at a ramp.   A man with a shiny new Ram 2500 truck was "trying" to back a shiny new HUGE pontoon down the ramp.   He kept trying, getting crooked, pulling up then trying again.   Finally......the lady sitting in the passenger seat got out, went to the drivers side and backed it straight down the ramp.  I was loading my boat in the next ramp.  The man started the engine (a 300 Merc) trimmed all the way up.  It was beeping.  I yelled, trim it down, you don't have any water pressure.  He trimmed it down.  About that time the Lady had walked back to the ramp after parking the trailer.  She said "Thanks".   

 

I know a BUNCH of Women (including Mrs B ) that can back a trailer.  However you won't usually see them with a man that can't.    

[PaulVE64]

Was bank fishing with my brother who is a very good trout fisherman.

Anyway he's a hundred yards ahead of me and it's been a tough day without any bites. But eventually I hear him shout "fish on"

After a few moments I hear him shouting again but I cant quite make out what he's saying. He continues to shout so I decide to go see what all the fuss is about.

And there he is hunched over with his face in his hands and he's kissing the fish.

Weird

Well apparently he leaned in a little too close to the smallmouth he caught on a jerkbait and it jumped hooking a treble into his cheek which he grabbed to keep it still. So now he's got hooks in both hands, his face and the fish.

I guess trout dont jump.

[Eric 26]

My favorite is when my brother shot my neighbors bobber with a BB gun while we were bank fishing in my youth and my neighbor kept setting the hook wondering why he couldn’t get a good hook set with me my brother his buddy my dad and his dad all holding a straight face for what felt like forever but was probably no more than a few minutes. Finally his dad goes over to him and fills him in on what’s happening with some colorful language to boot which made us bust up laughing even more. 

Edited November 9, 2023 by Eric 26
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[galyonj]

On 11/7/2023 at 10:21 AM, Darnold335 said:

I saw a rollback with a trailer and boat on it. Lowered the roll back bed. Winched down the trailer and launched the boat.

 

Wheel hub manufacturers hate this one weird trick.

[Crow Horse]

I'm sure a video of this event would have been hilarious, especially my facial expression while rigging my yak for a days fishing and I turn around to be face to face with an emu.

It was one of the highlights of the season.