Have you ever had one of those fishing trips where you think your ready for anything and you realise you were no where close?

I just took my family on a week long trip to a local lake here in Va. the first two days were awesome we were catching fish and having a great time then everything started going wrong.

My buddy's boat started giving him fits on the third day so we took the day to fix his issues and lost a whole day of fishing and cost him 270 bucks for the parts.

The next day I took my youngest daughter out by ourselves and we were having a great time catching fish and I was having a blast teaching my daughter until we rounded a cove and I casted my line to a drop off when the lure or something snagged the rod and pulled the rod out of my hands and lost it so in a rush to rescue it I started emptying my pockets to jump in after it and my keys flew overboard,

So while I realised I could do nothing and my youngest watching all I could do was thank the man upstairs for giving me the opportunity to fish with her and have some fun then I remembered my buddy's grandad had a under water camera so I waited there because I had no way to mark the spot and when he returned with the camera we had anchored one boat and set out a marker for having people in the water ( just as if a diver would do ) we had the boats at the most only 25 feet apart and low and behold a large boat came right between us and almost tossed my daughter overboard so after a few choice words I realised my boat was filling with water and had to bilge the hull for what seemed like an eternity after all of the excitement was over I decided that all that was lost was not worth getting someone hurt so we headed back to camp for some ice cold beer and wouldn't you know it we were up on plane and another large boat was on my port side towing two children in a raft and turned in front of me and crossed my path so I then lost it!!!

I turned both into the VDGIF and went out only in the early am and stayed in the rest of the day for the following two days.

Thinking the worst was over we packed up and went home and guess what it wasn't over yet, on the way home a wheel bearing on the boat trailer exploded.

Thank goodness we were close to home and limped it in.

Sheeeew I have never been so glad to be home.

No where close to that mess. Had plenty of bad days, but that takes the cake.

Good luck.

Thanks FFD,

Say my buddys grandad has a structure scan on his pontoon do you think it will pick up a fishing rod?

I have never seen one at work so I have no clue how sensitive they are.

That rod and reel must have cost a lot of money.

I'm sorry to hear about your trip. Just thank the lord you and your daughter/family made it home safe. It was bad, but could have been worse.

Derek

BassBrat,

No not really at least not like some people spend, But that combo had a well rounded character and it really worked well for me and if I can retrieve it I will.

I can always go get another one I just don't have the funds to do so right now.

DRhodes,

You are so right in saying that and believe me when I say I am very thankful it was not as bad as it could have been because someone I know had to be there, There is just no other answer for it.

Thanks for the reply.

Man, that is definitely one for the books.  Glad everyone made it home safe. 8-)

Man, that is definitely one for the books. Glad everyone made it home safe. 8-)

Thanks for the reply, I can't tell you how lucky or blessed I felt to have everyone home safe.

That sounds like something out of a movie!!!!! I am glad you and your family made it out fine.

Thanks SGT,

If it was a movie at least it has a happy ending  ;D

I think the worst part of that whole day was knowing that my daughter wanted to compete in a tournament they were having for father/daughter that evening and she decided she didn't want to go because of all of the stupid boaters on that particular day.

Out of all the bad things that happened that was the worst.