BLOOPERS!!

[Fishaholic]

  similar incident occurred while fishing with my cousin in southern Indiana..he had take me to Patoka to fish for slab gills in 35 feet of water...but it was a tiny little hole, so he proudly had held us in position by using his power anchors...anyway when it was time to go, I watched him lift the rear anchor, but not the front anchor...I kept trying to interrupt his tirade to explain to him that the front anchor was still down, but he wouldn't let me get a word in edge-wise...and still talkin' he cranks up his big motor and starts headin for the launch...about 3 seconds after he takes off he hears a loud thump...I try again to tell him it's his front anchor, but can't get a word in edge-wise again...well as we get to the launch, the boat is movin slower and slower and s l o w e r...then he's on a tirade about how he just had it tuned up at the Marina and boy were they gonna get an earful...finally, after the boat is on the trailer he shuts up for just a second and I point to the frayed cable coming out of his power anchor in the front...he looks puzzled, then I point out the hole in the bottom of his tri-hull.

Finally, peace and quiet...he never said another word all the way home...and after a 45 minute drive to his house, there was still water coming out of the hull 

[Fishaholic]

One more...

I went fishing with my other cousin at Potato Creek near South Bend...known for tremendous crappie fishing and slab gills...he had just gotten his first boat from his father-in-law and was not too good at getting it on the trailer...anyway, there's this little pier that goes out from shore right next to the launch, so he ties the boat up there and backs his trailer into the water, then unties the boat to pull it up on the trailer...well the trailer was a little too far out from the pier for him to do it the way he wanted, so he put one foot on the pier and one foot on the boat and began to push the boat sideways out further to line up with the trailer...someone on the far side of the parking lot yelled out his name and broke his concentration...and all of a sudden his legs were getting further apart until the obvious happened...down he went!

I have to admit though, I was really impressed at how he maintained his composure and manually put that boat up on the trailer, walked out and acted like it was totally intentional...but we know better

[big mac]

Some friends and I (when we were young) took a old rowboat out on a lake in south san francisco. It wasd early and we were trying out a invention involving two rat traps and two wooden spoons and a ramp off the back of th rowboat. You put a M-80 in the ramp and one each in thewooden spoons (one facing port and one facing starboard) light them amd pull a cord. the two spoons throw the M-80's wide to both sides and the other one rolls off the back. INSTANT sub killer! We managed about 3 salvo's when the loader got overanxious and dropped the punk in the box with the spare ammo, we all looked in and saw sixty-eleven fuses burning and flipped the box over and we piled on it. Ka-Whump. We all got off and as soon as we turned the crate( what was left of it) over the boat filled with water and sunk.

when we arrived at the shore the warden was there and told us not to swim in his lake. He told us to get out of there before he called our parents. AS we went over the hill we looked back and could see the half sunk boat still in the middle of the lake.

......mac

[Lipripper]

mac sounds like fun  what do you do for a living now  Were you in the Navy

[big mac]

Naw, had enough "navy" for me then. I had a short time almost being persuaded into joining a "gang" in SF. I was shot, knifed, hit with a arrow, and then I joined the Army and they taught me how to fight. I did the best I could on the entrance exams and was sent to Military Intelligence school. Somehow I got a classified clearance and made sergeant in under 3 years. I also found a purpose in my life. I went to college after being separated and got a degree. I am presently retired (disabled) from the local Sheriff's Department after almost 30 years. Not bad for a poor ole country boy. I still get upset sometimes thinking about what we did when we were young and knew it all. One of my friends also joined the police force, in another city, and drowned trying to save a downed helicopter pilot about 20 years ago.  it's amazing that we survived at all, I still remember being in grade school practicing diving under the desk if we saw a bright flash come through the window. HEY , does this qualify and a ALMOST Blooper?

[Ranger375]

Big Mac...all I can say is...you have certainly had you share of adventures! 
...I think the desk thing almost qualifies... 

[Lipripper]

OK Ranger now I know you have all kind of BLOOPERS so come on out with some of them 
mac Sounds like we all did stuff when we were younger and thought we knew it all  and I was in a motercycle gang not too long after I got back from Viet Nam and boy could I tell a story or two but like Nam that's another thing i don't talk about much.
Ok all you other BASS FiSHERS come step up to the plate and let the cat out of the bag and eye don't mean the kitty-kats    

[Kal-Kevin]

OK here's my blooper for last year, My  buddy pulls up to the dock and of  course every one is standing there waiting for weigh-in, and I look up to see everyone looking at me and miss the dock completely. Down I go 12 feet with a life vest on, it takes 10 minutes to hit the bottom and come back up. they said they were thinking if I did not come up soon some one would go in for me. of course this is the story that gets told at ever tournament last year. what is the worst part it seamed that every year something happens to me to give them something  to laugh at.   

[Fishaholic]

  my kind o guy Kevin 

[Lipripper]

Kevin thanks and sounds like you might need a new life vest if it took you 10 minutes to get back to the top 

[Fishaholic]

guess the two little balloons from the florist weren't enough, huh?

[Lipripper]

Not enough helium hu Fish 

[Fishaholic]

yeah thats probably it...or too big a lunch before weigh in 

[Lipripper]

To many snack on the boat could have done it eye guess 

[Kal-Kevin]

no never eat before fishing or fishing to busy    just seamed to be that long.  and the vest were only a month old. just being dumb 

[Fishaholic]

Kevin...I know the feeling...a few seconds under water when you don't expect it seems like an eternity.

[Fishaholic]

while walking to the stream with a buddy of mine one fine Fall day I noticed some interesting flowers and told him to go ahead I'd catch up...thinking to myself that my wife might like something like that in her garden...anyway, after checking out the plant, I turned to follow him and walked forward without looking where I was going...stepped into a critter hole and my right leg sank all the way up to my waist, my left leg in an awkward position preventing me from extracting myself from the hole...we were walking along a highway to get to the stream and due to the noise from passing traffic he couldn't hear me when I yell out for a little help...

after I hadn't shown up at stream-side for 30 minutes, he decided he better walk back and find out what happened to me...fortunately!

[Lipripper]

Kevin you got that right when in a situation like that a short time seams like forever 
Fish did you catch any  once ya got there  and did you friend  when he saw you 

[Fishaholic]

Yeah Lip, we eventually caught a couple nice steelhead and yes, my buddy laughed and ribbed me the rest of the day.. and for several trips after that kept asking if I wanted him to stay close in case I found another critter hole.

Hey when we gonna get some Laurie and Mike blooper stories???

[Lipripper]

Fish Mike said he would put some here and eye told him we didn't want the ones about him and lower units and stumps because we know them already   
Them critter holes do have a way of sneaking up on ya for sure 

[Fishaholic]

Lip, I remember walkin on the high ridge along the Kankakee one day, following a deer path in search of some new backwater areas I located on an aerial map...when all of a sudden (well I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking again) I tripped on a log and went tumbling down the backside of the ridge...down through about 20 feet of raspberry plants and came crashing to a halt in a foot of mud...ureka! I found the fishin' spot, but was too beat up to fish it 

[Lipripper]

Now Fish that was funny  was there any raspberrys on the plants  and sounds like the fish won that round 

[Fishaholic]

nope, no raspberries, but plenty of stinging thorns 

[Lipripper]

Ok befor this get lost and Mike and Laurie and the rest of ya'll forget about it come on out with those funny and  stories that eye know all of ya'll have   

[silversalmon]

  It won't get lost while I am around LIP, I enjoy the ol bloopers