Fishing Mishaps

[dezigirl78]

I'm bored... I love to hear fishing mishap stories - so let's tell 'em.
Here's mine....

My BFF, who is not an angler of any measure, and I decided to go camping together on Lake Lewisville. Just a quick little weekend getaway. I told her I would be fishing all weekend and she was more than welcome to join, but probably needed a license – get one just to be safe. We go to Wal-Mart for her license and after success we cruise the outdoor section and come upon a 4 person inflatable boat. It was 50%off… sweet deal. She says… wouldn’t it be cool if we could use this to get out in the water instead of bank fishing?? I thought – well **** yeah it would!! Nothing could go wrong in this scenario!! Let’s do it!! So we buy some cheap little plastic paddles and a make-shift anchor using boat rope and a 10lb weight plate. Redneck though and though. **atta girl**

Saturday morning, bright and early, we blow up the boat. It’s PERFECT! Me on one end, Kimmi on the other end – the fishing cooler/tackle in between us. And we’re off like a herd of turtles! It was great! We soon discovered my inability to row in sync with another person but that was ok because Kimmi had it just fine on her own and I rigged the poles. We knew better than to get out where the boats go, but we wanted to at least get out in the middle of our little cove. Maybe about 20-30 yards out. Oh man it was magnificent! The sunrise was beautiful, the water was calm, and the cats were biting. I caught 3 or 4, poor Kimmi didn’t get any.
Around my 4th cat, it ended up being a tiny little fella and I needed to throw him back. Well don’t you know that would be the fish to swallow the hook. I jacked with it for a bit with the pliers but he was bleeding everywhere and things just weren’t looking good for the little guy. I grabbed ahold of him real good and got ready to yank the hook out and end his misery. As I tightened my grip I hear a funny noise….

Fffffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……

hmmm that’s a weird sound.

I’ve never heard a fish make a sound like that…. Maybe I squished his floatie bubble thing???

Hmmm…. Just doesn’t seem right.

Then.... my eyes focus on the background of my fish I see an alarming hole in the side of the boat his fin had made when I adjusted my grip on him.
I look up at Kimmi – who is frozen – searching my eyes for answers.
She yells “WHAT ARE WE GONNA DOOOOOO???????”
I dropped my fish, stuck my finger in the hole and yelled “ROW KIMMI ROOOOOWWWW!!!!!!”
She starts rowing and we aren’t going ANYWHERE… CRAP!! “The ANCHOR” she yells.
“Get it girl! I can’t move my finger!”
She pulls up the anchor….. and I have never seen a girl row like that. We made it to shore…. But Kimmi was half submerged in water by the time we did, only the front part of the boat was still blown up.

And wouldn't you know there was a boat docked right there and a family watching the whole thing…. Scratching their heads at us ‘girl people’ trying to fish in a blowup boat….

[rjtkdplus]

That's funny!

[louieagarcia]

Pretty funny Dez!

We had a little adventure two weekends ago in Baffin. Headed down to uncles fishin cabin. We get there and started unloading the boat. He has a dolly to unload heavy stuff, during the process...somehow we ended up with 4 adults, 2 Yeti's (packed) and 2 100# labs on the same section of pier. Here's the result! Burned up the first halfday of fishing working on the pier No one was seriously injured, luckily.

[Patton]

That is a good one! Good times Im sure.

Last Summer The Cajun and I made many trips to his fishing camp in South Louisiana. We did a little fishing like the normal folks like to do, but bowfishing is what really gets us excited. For the most part we go after redfish and sheepshead, but one night we decided to try and find some larger gator gar that we knew were in the area.

I take the driver position in the 18" flat bottom and not too long after starting the search The Cajun stuck a good fish. If you've ever shot a bigger fish, you know they sometimes take off like a bat out of hell and you need to chase them down if you can't drop a float. And in the dark of night, the generator hammering away, a big fish yanking on the line, and everybody shouting their idea of what the best method of landing the fish is- I can only describe it as controlled chaos the first few times you do it.

Tyler hits this fish while he is standing ontop of a Coleman icechest at the front of the boat, and I give the 25HP some gas to chase him down. Well down Tyler comes into the middle of the boat, and sticks his foot on the barb of a spare arrow laying in the boat. The arrow was facing away from him and the barb (not the tip) went through his shoe and into his foot. Bring on the blood. Thankfully the gar went on a short run and stopped about 20yrds from the boat. Now how to stop this bleeding quickly? No first aid in the boat. Duct tape? Forgot it. Super glue? Didn't bring it. Your shirt? No way I like this shirt to much. Tyler has the idea he is going to use his boxer briefs.

Here we are in the middle of the marsh with our personal best fish on the line, and Tyler is *** naked wrapping his bleeding foot up with his underwear. Pretty funny looking back on it. After he semi stopped the bleeding, I handed him back the bow and he landed his first gator gar.

That was one of our first trips bowfishing, and we have now perfected his boat set up, added a stable deck/better lights, and have everything we need neatly organized. No more loose arrows sitting on the ground.

Here is a picture of the fish from the next day. Notice the coleman icechest we used to stand on and how he has one shoe and one flip flop.

[Jaybo31]

2 years ago 2 minutes after take off on a Tuesday night tournament our motor came off running about 65, that was a wild ride I never want to take again ....thank God it was rough that day or would have been running alot faster.

TR21XHP with a 250 XS

[CrossTimbers]

These are great. Keep 'em coming.

[Playa]

Nowhere near as dramatic as your's was Dez, that entire 'yarn' made me laugh.

Last summer I had my son, 6 at the time, fishing on our stock pond. We have a 14' johnboat that we just bought last year, so I'm somewhat unfamiliar with it. I like to push the trolling motor, so we had motored out to the far end of the lake at a pretty good clip.

I drop anchor, and hand him his fishing pole and help him get it cast out (ducking the hook/lure) on the back cast, I learned the hard way on that the prior trip when he cast my hat out into the pond. I figure, smooth sailing now, he's casting, I still have my hat, eyeballs and no hook buried in my body, we are good!

So a few mins had passed while I was getting him set up. And I am ready to get my gear in the water. I reach down to grab my fishing rod and realize.... "my we sure have a lot of water in the floor of the boat." Sitting puzzled for a bit, and dodging another close passing lure cast by my son, I realize that water is rising as its now covered my feet and quickly approaching my ankles. Crap, we are taking on water and fast.

Now my son realizes it as its inched its way to the front part of the boat now. Have no idea why water is coming on board at this point, but I do know that if we don't get to shore, that boat will be at the bottom of the pond soon, and I'll be rescue swimming my son, cooler, 3 fishing rods, and a tackle bag 100 yards or so to the shore!

So i'm yanking the anchor up. My son is in full panic mode now (sounded like his Nana). Trottle that trolling motor as high as it will go, but we are planing pretty low in the water now and have considerably more weight, so its not moving like it did on the way out.

Make it to shore, pull it up the sandy launch and hop out. Take a stroll around the boat and see water gushing out of the drain hole. Remember, new boat, right! My dad had placed a sheet of ply wood by the transom to set the battery on for the trolling motor. I failed to lift it to ensure the drain plug was firmly in. Apparently it wasn't and had popped completely out.

Moral of the story, make sure your drain is firmly in place. My son wouldn't step foot on that boat weekend before last. Try explaining to a 6 yr old that it won't happen again!

[Tommyh]

I'm at Sheldon reservoir with a couple friends and we are fishing on a pier out there. not catching anything at all and irritated already, i make my last cast with a river runt tied on, and get it hung up in a bush about 15 yds off the pier. i go to yankin and a tuggin and a pullin and a cursin, and it finally let go. luckily, im young at the time, with reaction times still relatively quick and recognize, to my chagrin, that this thing is rocketing at my face! a quick turn of the ol noggin, and lo and behold, i get whacked right on my left ear! that **** hurt like a mother!

As i open my eyes, i realize something is touching my cheek. yup, two treble hooks are stuck, one in my ear, and the other in my cheek. took my friends a few minutes to get them out and a lot of pain afterwards. needless to say we went home after that..

[Marion]

Just before my buddy and I were going graduate high school we decided to take his dad's boat out on lake Ray Hubbard to do some fishing. The boat was a 21ft deck boat with a 150 outboard. His dad had just got it out of the shop and this was going to be its first trip on the water.

We launched and sped off into the middle of the lake when the motor just quit and wouldn't start back up. There was a breeze blowing us in the general direction we needed to go to get back to the dock so we decide to just ride it out. After a little bit one of those afternoon Spring thunderstorms blows up right over us and lightening is flashing all around us and the waves were tossing us around pretty good. All we could do was lay down on the deck and hope we didn't get struck. That's about as scared as I've ever been on the water. Turned out the mechanic didn't tighten any of the spark plugs down and one of them blew out.

[rjtkdplus]

Back in the late 80's, my dad had a 21 ft boat with a 150 Mercury on it. Some friends and I decided we'd take it out King Mackerel fishing out of Pensacola pass. The night before, my dad said "both tanks are full, just fill it up when you get home". We head out and are having a good day fishing when tank 1 gets low on gas. No problem, we have another full tank(so I think) I flip the switch and tank 2 is EMPTY! Flip back to tank 1, very close to empty. I tell everyone to reel em in we have to go. We are 7 miles out of the pass in the gulf. Well, we make it through the pass and into Pensacola bay, only 4 miles to the boat ramp we're gonna make it! Wrong, the engine dies. Out of fuel 200 yards off the beach. I put on a life vest, grab the bowline, jump in and swim, pulling the boat until I can wade. End up wading/swimming the final 4 miles to the ramp. Too many docks to walk down the beach. Got one of the worst sunburns I ever had! Bets we could figure, someone siphoned the tank during the night. Or maybe my dad just won't admit he only filled one tank.

[Rotney]

My buddy and I went fishing. My ex wife wanted to go and she was pregnant with my daughter. She just wanted to go lay out in the sun.

So she's layin there, we're fishin, my buddy rares back to make a cast, cast, catches ex wife in the belly with the hook. She was not pleased.

In hind sight, wish he would've casted her away but I keep my daughter. My daughter is getting married this weekend. I'm thinking about taking a few lures to give the ex.

[Skinny]

Lol. My dad and uncle used to fish Tawakani (sp) back in the day...they thought the lake was cursed. Every time they went there they had boat problems...but never had any issues on any other lakes.

One time they had an issue with the prop out on the lake and they were messing with it out there...they took the nut off and were trying to get it off. Of course it was stuck on the shaft or whatever you call it...and when it broke free, it flew through the air and landed out in the water and sank. Lol.

They had one paddle and took turns paddling back to the ramp. I think that was their last trip to that lake.

[DaveS903]

Saw this over on 2cool:

[whitetailfanatic]

Bill Dance has some good fishing bloopers on youtube

[The Cajun]

About a month ago, I was relaxing down at the fish camp in bayou dularge. Was doing some bow fishing at night and studying in the day time. For the most part the studying went well, but one afternoon i decided to take a small break and go out on the water. Wasn't suppose to be bow fishing, do to studying, but this and that happens and i ended up bow fishing for about an hour or two. On my way back in I decided to take a "cool picture" to post on social media. I had my brute cooler with the TBh sticker, the bow fishing platform, and my bow standing straight up in the front of the boat. (I was alone by the way). I go to the back to take the picture and as i turn around i see my bow slightly starting to fall and bam it went over board in the deepest part of the bayou. We tried all different ways to find the bow and had no luck. Unfortunately it happened in the worst spot. All the other areas we bow fish are 1-2 feet deep and we would of been able to find it. Going back in three weeks with The general, The Texan, and MikeSwayne and have a few new ideas to scrape the bottom in one more effort to find it. However, I already ordered a new bow. Needless to say, "Social media aint worth it!"