BLOOPERS!!

[Lipripper]

OK as ya'll know I'm not much on starting topics but I was chatting with Mike and made a suggestion and he said it might be a fun one to have so here goes. I will even start it off with one of my own. As you can see by the title it's called Bloopers. Now these can be fishing related or not and or just funny or stupid things that you have done in the past and will do in the future  When getthenet told us her sad  story the other day the  hit me again so here goes.

Several years ago I was fishing with some guys from work at Reelfoot Lake and one of the guys had one of those little 2 man plastic boats ( I don't know much about boats cause I'm mostly a bank fisherman and I don't have one.) No fish finder so I didn't know how deep the water was and it was raining that day. We were about 10 yards from shore and tied up to a tree fishing for CRAPPIE. We weren't catching very many so we decided to move now I was in the front of the boat and knelled down and reached out to untie the rope and the boat tipped and I went over into the water. Now not knowing how deep the water was, and wearing my NAFC life member rain suit and rain boots, was a little concerned about drowning Talk about one happy campper when I put my feet down and stood up It was only about 4 ft. deep. Boy was I relived. I was even more happy when I got out of the water and my wallet didn't even get wet. MY NAFC LIFER rains suit worked.

[big mac]

I was reading in another post on another forum that one guy was launching his boat early in the morning and was still a little sleepy. he did all things right and launched the boat and then parked the truck and trailer and went to the dock and the boat was sinking! well, he raced back to the truck and got the rig on the trailer in time. first thing he did was check the drain plug, there it was, IN THE LIVE WELL DRAIN HOLE!

Don't launch when you're half asleep

.....mac

[Fishaholic]

WTG Lip...are you related to Bill Dance? 

[Lipripper]

Fish could be  we both be southern boys 

[Fishaholic]

there u go...klutz's of a feather stuck together 

[Lipripper]

OK here is another one. This isn't a fish related one but just wanted ya'll to get the hang of what we are looking for 

This one happen years ago when I was young and foolish and partying all the time  and ridding my HARLEY. I had been up partying for 2 to 3 days without sleep and buzzing all over the place.    I was out on my bike just ridding around, and any of ya'll old timmer who every watched LAFF IN have seen the guy ridding his byclcle and stops and falls over, well I pulled up to a stop sign and applied the brakes but was a little slow putting my feet down to hold up my bike or I was BUZZING so much I thought I did put them down. Either way PLOP right over on the side. Boy was I 

[Fishaholic]

3 way blooper....

When I was in college, we were sitting in the union and b.s.'ing about fishing exploits and a guy that wasn't part of our group but listening in said "I bet I can pick a lake where you guys won't catch any fish"...and being cocky college students we repllied with "as long as it's in this state, we'll catch fish...and lots of really good ones too"...

So the guy says "I'll bet you 20 bucks you guys get skunked" and he writes the name of the lake on a piece of paper, folds it in half and holds it in front of us and says "well, do we have a bet, or are you guys all talk?"

One of my buddies grabs the paper from his hand and says "absolutely! we've got a bet!" He opens the paper and written on it is Salamonie Resv. and of course with all the places we've fished in Indiana, none of us had ever fished this one!

So we pack all our fishing gear and camping gear into the car and the 3 of us head out on a Friday nite to Salamonie Resv....we check in at the camp ground and none of us are ready for the massive expanse of water before us...

First blooper
I'm standing on the side of a steep bank casting with my flyrod and bass bugs for an hour or so with no luck...I walk back to the campsite and go to break my rod down, it won't come apart...I'm tugging and twisting with all my might, but it won't come apart...one of my buddies comes over to help and it's like flyrod tug of war with no winners...we give it up and sit around the camp fire drinking beer...after a few beers we decide to go night fishing for a while...I'm thinking to myself, this could be real interesting with a flyrod, so we head to a likely spot...as we're fishing my one friend is bragging how he snuck out of the house with his dad's new rod and reel combo and making light of the fact that his father sometimes forgets to tie the line to the spool when he puts new line on...and just as he's saying this, he goes to make a cast and the reel goes flying off the rod and into the dark water...the whole time we're tell him his father probably didn't tie the line to the spool as he's bringing in yards and yards of line, hand over hand....(it was a new reel, manufacturer spooled it and we knew it).

blooper two
We're laughing so hard at my buddy that I almost fall off the bank...and I don't remember what happened exactly, but I went to cast some flyline out and the tip of the flyrod goes flying through the air and into the water...the same rod that 2 of us couldn't get apart earlier...fortunately, I had that big bass bug on so I didn't lose the rod section...but after 2 bizarre events, we decide to turn in for the night.

blooper three
We find a place to rent boats, and fish and row all over the place until we're totally worn out...and not a fish to show for our efforts...we decide we have to take drastic measures since we have this big bet going, so we head for camp, eat some lunch/dinner and head to town to look for a bait shop...in the bait shop we ask how the fishing has been on the Salamonie and come to find out that they're killin the big bass!...well, everyone but us..."what are they using for bait" I asked..."punkinseeds" the owner replied..."got any, I'll take one" I replied..."no, been out of em for weeks"..."bummer"..."where they been gettin'  em " I asked..."out in the stump fields at night...usually around 1 a.m." "OK, thanks" and with that, we head out and hit every local sporting goods store, and bait shop we can find and none of em got this punkinseed lure the guy told us about...back at the camp site, Rick, the 3rd guy is rummaging around through his tackle box and and behold! it's a punkinseed! "Hey! whaddya know, we've got one!" and with that, we decided to rest for awhile and try the stump fields that night.

We load up the boat with our gear, the lantern and our one punkinseed lure and start rowing for the stumpfields...takes forever, it's clear on the other side of the watershed...when we get there there's boats everywhere! Rick ties on the punkinseed, takes the first cast and for whatever reason, stands up and peers out over the water as he does, he leans right over the coleman lantern with his rod in hand and the lantern exhaust catches his line and that's the end of our punkinseed..."shoot...sorry guys,  what now?"

the scam
Dejected, we row back to the campsite and get totally drunk and crash...in the morning they awake to see me with an enormous grin on my face and they look me straight in the face and say "we lost the bet, how can you be so chipper about it?" "I have a solution, we're gonna win the bet!" "OK, I don't know what you've got up your sleeve, but we're in"

I take the minnow bucket down to a shallow weedy area and proceed to catch 10 bass minnows...take them back to the camp and find a piece of heavy white thread and a needle and sew first through the bottom jaw and then out through the mouth all 10 minnows...I grab 2 very long but stiff twigs and tie up the string of bass minnows to the twigs...and with the magic of Kodak, position my 2 fishin' buddies so that it looks like each one is holding an end of the line and snap the pic...we never really let anyone get a real long look at the photo...just kind of flashed it in front of em...and became the "great fishermen of Purdue"  Wish I knew where that photo was now, I could use a good laugh.

[silversalmon]

ALLRIGHT, way to get us started with these bloopers guys

[left_turn56]

Fish...bet you wish Photoshop was available then!!

[Fishaholic]

  back then all the computers used cards for their programs...remember those keypunched cards?

[silversalmon]

On a blooper moment, upon getting to the lake, Chena lakes, to do some ice fishing, I could see many other folks out, about 30 or so. I look toward the spot in which I like to fish and we had gotton some fresh snow, about 5 inches since I had been out there a couple of days ago with my boy. It was warm last week, mid 20's to upper 30's, whcih is why I have not been around. Anyway, I grab my chair(bucket), pole, and tackle. I then realize that I am overdressed and start taking off some layers. Well, to not delay the start of my fishing day I decide to walk while taking off my coat and juggling the other things. Of course not looking where I am going, I then step into a hole , boot fills up with water and I land on everything I am carrying. Luckily, duct tape remains in my truck so I could fix my pole that snapped under me. Needless to say, I need a new ice pole, thank goodness it was not the tip ups, and always carry extra socks, as I forgot mine that day 

[DAWG]

So Fishaholic, what was the storie why there were no fish caught in the Salimonie Resv. ?

[Lipripper]

EYE remember them cards Fish and sounds like you were a little  back then too    Eye got one that shows me was too  Ok silver come on out with some of your's too you too left_turn we know ya'll got some   

[DAWG]

Heres one that just happened to me Wed. night. After I got home from work and went to take a bath I went to lean over and pick up my clothes to put them in the laundry shoot and as I did instead of stooping down ,I leaned over and hit my head on the corner of the wood molding betweem the wallpaper and paint on the wall. Man did that hurt . I have a cut on my head about 1 - 1 1/2 " long. I alwalws stoop down to pick up things and dont know why I leaned this time . Lesson learned there .

[Lipripper]

Ouch!! DAWG now that would smart 

[DAWG]

Still hurts too.

[Lipripper]

DAWG wonder why just about all of lifes lessions hurt so much 

[Inspired]

Ok, I gotta chime in on this one...

Years ago my dad and I were fly fishing on a small lake for some bluegill and bass in a 10' jon boat.  We had fished half the day and had a beautiful stringer of about 25-30 blue's and a few bass.  As we were trolling along to another cove, I landed me another nice bluegill, and as my dad reached for the stringer, all I saw was his mouth open wide and the cigarette drop from his mouth, followed by  ...  the stringer had came loose!  My dad's  continued along with a few choice words from my young mouth, and a few I had learned from my dad that day  .  But we were not deterred, we fished out the rest of the afternoon and ended up with another nice stringer of about 20-25 bluegills.   

Word to the wise... tie off that stringer good, or get yerself a livewell!   

[silversalmon]

Definitely a good call with this topic

[Fishaholic]

Owie Zowie for sure...that one hurts just thinkin' about it...

[Lipripper]

Inspired now that would be enough to make a grown man  for sure  and you learn a new vocabulary that day  Now we need to touch base sometime in the next few days 

[DAWG]

One of my other bloopers in life was when I was around 10 years old and i wanted to use a hand saw. I wanted to make an airplane out of wood and as I was getting the saw in place i lined it up with my thumb and forgot to move it before sawing and cut the tip off of my thumb. So now I remember to MOVE IT

[Fishaholic]

YIKES!!!! DAWG, your bloopers are pretty morbid, ewwwww.

OUCH!!!!!!!!

[Lipripper]

DAWG  OUCH 
OK Fish eye said that eye had one that was a little  on my part well here it is  Maybe eye shouldn't tell this one it might give ya'll the idea that me not as much a little  as you think me am  OH well 
This one happened along time ago also when I first started going out with a friend who had a little river boat. Now ya got to remember I'm was a bank fisherman and was not that savey with boats. We were out fishing on the lake and there was a strong wind and current flow that day so we had a big ol ancher out to keep the boat over our fishin hole. The boat had a small moter on the back might have been 10hp don't remember for sure. Now after awhile we decided to move to another spot and I was in the back of the boat running the moter. We took off and it didn't seem like we were going as fast as we were when we stoped there. So we stoped and my friend came back and played around with the moter, you know the usuall stuff you do with a moter that don't work right. Raised the cover, checked the gas line, checked the choke, you know that kind of stuff. After about 5 or 10 minents of playing around he pulled the rope and it started right up and away we went again but still the same thing. We stoped again and he repeated his ritural again with the same results. Now this went on for about half an hour and I just happend to look over the side of the boat and saw the ancher rope still in the water. I guess I always was a little sneakey even back then and quick witted so the next time he poped the cover and had his head and hands under the cover I reached over and pulled the ancher up real fast then hollered let's try it again, and what do ya know we could go faster now. Then I said "I don't know what ya did but you fixed it this time" You know I never did tell him about the ancher.

[DAWG]

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