License while salmon fishing....

 

i was fishing for some Steelies up in the creeks of lake Michigan, and I had just landed a nice one that i was going to keep and cook up.

 

DNR walks over and checks if it was foul hooked (it wasn't) and asks for my license. I dig into my bag and pull out my license and he says you don't have a salmon stamp, this is just a Indiana FW standard issue.

 

I had left my salmon stamped license at home.... Luckily he was a nice enough guy and ran my ID tags and sure enough, I was approved, we shared a laugh and he was on his way.

 

Could have been a heck of a lot worse for me.

Forgot the tournament scales and I was the tournament director.  Oops.  We weighed with a handheld and it worked out.  Had some mad anglers tho.  I won the tournement too.  Ouch...

My mom.

We were on a trip and my dad drove off leaving my mom at a roadside public rest station. This was before cellphones were common.

Took us 20 minutes round trip. lol.

Fishing License. Got a ticket for it too. Happened when I was in High School. When the recruiter asked me for my history of interactions with law enforcement, he about fell off his chair laughing at me. In fact, I got two tickets that night, one for not having my fishing license with me and another for "fishing after dark" in the public park lake.

 

Those were big time violations in the little town I was from. lol

My pants

I forgot the keys to the ENTIRE boat. Including that for the outboard, and all of the compartments with all my tackle, clothes and rods in it. U-turn it was

Several years back, we had just launched the boat at Camp Mack on Lake Kissimmee.

While waiting for my wife to park the tow car, I was doing my usual shakedown chores

when I realized that I had forgotten my handheld dash-mounted GPS !*?%!

After working several hours on the coordinates, there was no way I was going fishing

without my waypoints. When Lois got back to the boat dock, I said, "Where'd you park the car?"

She said: "Why do you ask? I replied: "Because I've got to run home to get my GPS".

I was 'very angry' with myself, and during that roundtrip the accelerator spent much of the time on the floorboard 

 

Roger

No jacket or sun glasses in late November =miserable boat ride