Funny thing happened to me tonight.

Was really planning to do the Ohio River for a solo all nighter with a launching out of Brandenburg. It was about 9:30, moon was rising, winds calm, and I was just heading out to start hooking up the rig. As I walked out the garage, and looked at the truck, then the boat sitting there, I looked up to the moon, and was just taking the first step toward the truck when it hit me. Felt like a cold chill running up my spine. Then a second or 2 of dumb-foundedness, followed by a blast of anxiety that made my hair stand on end, and jolted me with a quiver of fear for what seemed to be absolutely no apparent reason. I know nobody was outside with me, I saw no one around. The words "Not tonight, don't do it", popped into my mind, and just kept repeating for what seemed like forever. In reality, it was just a couple seconds I guess. But it left me feeling like somebody was standing beside me and talking into my ear. Again, I got a quick chill. At that point, I just turned around and walked back into the garage, and closed the garage door. I came inside to the kitchen, and looked over at the wife watching TV in the family room. She looked up from the TV with a funny look on her face, and said "I thought you were going fishing......but you look like you just saw a ghost......what's wrong?" I stood there for a second looking at her, and then mumbled "I don't know if anything is wrong, I just for some reason don't feel like tongiht is a good idea". She sat there and stared at me while I stared back for awhile. I finally broke the gaze, grabbed a bottle of cold water, and sat down to watch some TV. It took about 15 minutes for my pulse to slow down. The chills were gone. For the life of me, I don't think I've ever had this kind of jolt, or premonition before. Makes me kind of think there really is somebody or something out there looking out for fisherman. Hope this doesn't get to be a habit. You don't think I've actually matured to the point that taking risks is now logically not the right thing to do? Hmmmmmmm...........well, I guess we'll rest on it, and see if it happens again.

I've never had something like that but if I did, I'd go right back inside cause I wouldn't be able to enjoy myself with that kind of burden riding with me.

The thought of being alone out on the Ohio at night would be enough to do that to me.

I've been there before lol. The worse time was when a buddy of mine had called me and was going fishing over to laurel and the same thing hit me. I convinced him not to go because of the bad feeling i was having and just so the guy he was going with got in a bad accident and the passenger side of the truck was caved in completly. You talk about an earie feeling for sure, there's just times that you know its not safe and never go aginst your gut feeling.

i love fishing the ohio at night,,,put the life vest on,kill switch,,ect and enjoy the night,,,hey BOB man i`ll go with you anytime you want,,,never a real good idea to be down there alone,,,just call me

[QUOTE=onemorecast56;374275]i love fishing the ohio at night,,,put the life vest on,kill switch,,ect and enjoy the night,,,hey BOB man i`ll go with you anytime you want,,,never a real good idea to be down there alone,,,just call me[/QUOTE]

Doug,

Will do. Main reason I go alone sometimes is so nobody will see the stupid stuff I do on occassion. I agree with ya, I got to start doing things a little smarter. Maybe thats what that little voice in my ear was that night. Thanks again, and will keep it in mind.

All I can say is that I follow my hunches/instinctual feelings a lot. I can tell you that there are few times I regret following them and many regrets for the ones I did not follow. I do not know how it does it, but that little "danger" voice in my head sure is smart.