Today I was returning to the ramp after a day out on the river, and as I got closer to the I noticed a boat sitting on the ramp with water pouring out of what I assumed was the drain. As I beached my boat next the ramp one of the guys with the boat started bailing water out as well. I said "Take on some water did ya?". One of the guys says, "This isn't our boat. We found this guy by the ramp and he had sunk his boat. He was so drunk, he didn't know what was going on and kept trying to drive it up the ramp." At this time the boat owner was passed out somewhere. Wow...

That's crazy I usually just see guys with I/O hatches open scratching there heads saying "give it a try now...no no that's didn't work lemme wiggle this one" I fish from the bank so I don't have to wait to get in or out because of these people.

I love it when someone backs their boat down the ramp before they take the straps and everything off, so they block the ramp for 5-10 minutes before they are actually ready to use it. One of the funniest things I've seen at the boatramp was actually done by my dad. He brought his junky old fish and ski boat out to run the motor a little and I was already out there. He calls and says he's at the ramp so I run back to talk to him. I was fishing the marina while he was launching his boat and I didn't see him tie a roap to the front of the trailer so he could launch the boat without it floating off. Well he backed it down and it floated off fine but I guess he forgot that it was tied to the trailer because he started to drive up the ramp! I started yelling "Stop dad! Stop!" His boat was almost completely out of the water by the time he heard me or felt the weight of the boat. Thankfully with the help of a couple other guys pushing and me pulling with my boat we were able to get it off the ramp without any major damage. I told my dad that if he'd have been trying to do that the rope would have never held up .

This spring I was helping my buddy load his 15' johnboat onto his trailer that has no siderails. It was dark and he has no outboard so I backed way into the water and he just tried to line it up best he could before I started to pull it up the ramp. Thankfully he managed to jump out of the boat right before it feel off the trailer! No major damage to the boat but I think I about threw my back out trying to lift it back onto the trailer!

The longer you fish and the older you get, you'll find out why most retired folks fish during weekdays. This issue is one of those reasons.

All reasons I also do NOT hit the lakes on the weekends unless very early or very late.

People are idiots................

All reasons I also do NOT hit the lakes on the weekends unless very early or very late.

People are idiots................

Yeah, the drunks are still sleeping off the night before when I hit the ramp at 5:30am. That's when I go fishing. However the wife and kids like to play on the sandbars, so we go on saturday and sunday afternoons right when all the idiots are out.

My senior year of high school, I decided go fishing about 4pm after school to scout some locations for a tournament using my depth finder and watching the water level. (It was spring on a TVA owned lake.) I pulled up beside the boat ramp to unhook the strap, plug up the hole, etc. Then as I got in my car this truck comes roaring passed me with a pontoon and proceed to back down the ramp..Literally cut me off with no concern to me..Not only did he cut me off, but he also backed right down the middle of the ramp taking up both lane rather than going down one of the two lanes on the ramp..If I tried to back the boat down I would have went off the ramp. So, I sat there watch 4 old men and 2 old ladies climbed onto the pontoon boat, unstrap the boat, order pizza, take something for their arthritis, rub BENGAY on each other, etc. After about 5 minutes I'm still sitting there and I said "Do you need help launching?" and the guy said "Nah, we'll be ready in just a second.." I said "Next time, can you back down single lane instead of down the middle so people like me who ready to launch can use the other lane?" He replied "This is one big lane, son." I walked away shaking my head..Every time some senior citizen tells me I need show respect to someone older, I tell them this story.

I have plenty of boat ramp horror stories..

Every angler here has horror stories. Most are funny now, but when it happens you almost crawl out of your skin at how inconsiderate, stupid, and just plain clueless most people are

I think I have posted this on here beofre but I will do it again.

A few years back before I had my boat, I was fishing off the courtesy dock (game warden told me it was ok as long as I got out of the way of boaters using the dock) at the lake. Here comes a beautiful bass boat, looked brand new to me. There was a dude with his much younger girlfriend/wife, she was driving. She drove this thing right across the ramp, dragging the bottom of the boat and prop right over the concrete, and going much too fast approaching the dock. I was off to the back side of the dock, out of the way, I had my line out parralel to the bank, only about 5-10 feet from shore. She slams into the dock, he jumps out, she backs up. He forgot truck keys so she slams the dock again and tosses the keys. She "peels out" very close to shore and snags my line with the prop, that fight didn't last long and I lost. He apologized and offered to replace my tackle. Was just a t-rig so no big deal. Took them forever to load onto the trailer. Same time, same place, the very next day. She did it all over again minus the snagging of my line, I got it out of the water this time. All of this and neither of them seemed to care that she was trashing this beautiful boat. You wouldn't believe the sounds that boat made coming across that concrete ramp!!

Cliff

On two separate occassions in club tournaments two different guys forgot to put the plug in their boat and they started to sink at the ramp.

Funny to everyone except the two guys. They managed to pull the boats out of the water with their trailers and the tournament went on without any more problems.

At Wakins Landing on the Historic James River I was waiting to trailer my boat when some Powhatan County guys and girls were trying to launch their two jet skis.

I tied the bass boat to the open ramp so I could get my car and as I walked on the pier to the parking lot I passed the Powhatan people and I said hello.

I swear two of them had no front teeth. And the tatoos were gross.

I think they were the upper class of Powhatan County trying to launch their yachts!!!!

I just loaded my boat. A guy unhooks his 26' cruiser from the winch on the trailer. I'm guessing to save time and be courteous to the other boaters. He gets in his truck and steps on the gas. The cruiser was on a trailer with rollers and in the gravel it went. I didn't stick around to see what happened. Glad I wasn't waiting to launch.

Anyone know this guy?

Did he drive down in there or did the tide come in?

Ole Blue, he is an Ohio State guy and he drove right in the lake.

Has anyone ever seen that Bill Dance blooper where the he forgot to unstrap the boat AND the hitch pin came out so that the boat and trailer were launched? Did they set that up??? It sure seems suspicious.

That's most likely a Florida boy, cruise ship in the background.

Ole Blue, he is an Ohio State guy and he drove right in the lake.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Ever get behind someone from Ohio........Terrible drivers.

Recently while comming in at the end of a fishing trip, there was a guy and his 20 something son trying to pull out. After several attempts the son finally managed to get the trailer in the water while Dad sat in the boat - there was a wind and Dad was having a hard time holding the boat up next to the dock - Son kept leaning out over the dock to hook the winch strap to the bow (apparently they did not know how to drive the boat up on the trailer) - when the boat drifted out too far, Dad took a rod and made a cast over the dock and Son grabbed the line and started pulling Dad and boat over to line up on the trailer - he then grabbed the rod and made a final pull - it was a two piced rod and came apart. Finally son waded into the water and walked the boat up on the trailer so that he could winch it down.