Well the other day my dad and I were fishing and I took a nasty fall. My pops had gracefully got his spinnerbait hing in some bushes on the bank. So I trolled up to the bank to try and retrieve it. Well we tried and tried and finally the line snapped but we could still see it. My dad said "That"s my favorite spinnerbait, I don't want to loose it!". So against my better judgement I started leaning over the boat and used a very large trunk that had fallen over to lean on. Well we finally got the spinnerbait and I went to push myself back upright when Crunch! The trunk shatters and I fall in HARD in about 2ft of water. The water was warm but the trunk or something cut my hand pretty good. It bled fairly bad and it probably could have used a stitch or two. We had a first aid kit and I was able toclean and bandage up. It's a couple days later and it's healing pretty good but still painful. My dad made the comment at least we weren't in 60ft of water. I told him I would have preferred that because there would have been allot less things to get injured by. I just keep thinking thank god I didn't hit my head on a rock. It's one of those falls where that type of blow would have killed me and all for a stupid 3$ lure!

Join the crowd. Glad it was not any worse. Never a good time or place for that.

Glad to hear your OK. Good thing you had a first aid kit. I carry one as well. In addittion to the basic stuff I also carry 3M Steri-Strips, basically instant stitches and the little disposable Neosporin packets

I had just released a fish once and leaned back in my seat to bask in the success. Heard a crack and thought, uh oh. Screws pulled the aluminum. I did a back somersault into the pond just like a scuba diver.

shoulda videoid it  

You are fortunate it's taken this long.  Glad to hear you are OK!

My club gives out a "human bobber" award to people who fall out of the boat during tournaments - I have "won" it twice :-[

I always keep in the back of my mind the old adage that says "it's not IF you are going to fall out of your boat, but WHEN."

.....well, as all agree......

at least your OK!!!

with rocks, for sure, it could have been alot worse....

but it wasn't.....so, all in all......

at least your pops still has his favorite spinnerbait ;D

Funny story. Glad your hand is healing up.

Ive only fallen out once (so far) and it was close to the ramp where a bunch of old dudes started laughing their arses off. It was pretty funny though.