Boneheaded Things You've Done

Had a tournament and was spending the night in a motel. Not saying where to protect the innocent. Just stopped by the local Wal-Mart after receiving a tip from a local. Grabbed me a bottle of red dip-n-dye, garlic scented. Go back to the room & me & my partner start getting our gear ready for the next day. sitting on the bed tying on my brush hog & open the bottle of the dip n dye & plop, it falls to the bed & then falls to the floor before I could grab it & spills almost the whole bottle on my pants (only pair I took with me might I add)the bed covers & the floor. Dye on my pants, dye on the bed, dye on the floor. Looks like someone was murdered in that room. We leave the next morning laughing & we still laugh about it til this day especially when the red dip n dye comes out of the box, & this was about 10 years ago.

A couple words of advise from another time:

DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT ever bite the head off of a power worm. If you do it once you will NEVER try it again. Trust me on this one, don't ask me how I know, but I just do.

If TimT ever goes on a fishing trip with anyone DO NOT let him eat any pork n beans. You will definately regret it later. That is one smell that you will never forget.

Jason

[QUOTE=Hershey102;460363]As a rookie my habit was to back my Tracker down the ramp until it was half way in and then to give it a good shove to float it off the trailer. At Kincaid I was leaning over the winch while giving the customary final push. Unfortunately, I had released the winch gear but had neglected to unhook the winch strap from the bow. As gravity took over and the boat made a quick exit into the lake . . . the winch handle comes spinning around faster than a Mike Tyson uppercut and tatoos me twice on the chin. After my head cleared I wiped away the blood and sheepishly glanced around to see if there were any witnesses.

Now I just tether the boat to the trailer and back her in until she floats. Sometimes, fellas, the learning curve is steep.[/QUOTE]

LOL very similiar to my story.... I was pushing my Skeeter off the trailer years ago and lost my footing....I fell face first into my trolling motor and I saw stars!!! My nose was bleeding from the inside and outside. My head was pounding for hours and my nose still has a bump on it!! I think I had broke it but was too proud to get it looked at.:)

Left home early one morning to fish the Cumberland River...time of year was October. Met a buddy of mine here near the house, then we drove down together....thought I had packed my little tackle box down inside my waders. Man what a terrible feeling to get to the wading spot to discover that I forgot my tackle box. I had an Acme Kastmaster tied onto one of my rods so I at least had ONE lure to use, (buddy told me he'd sell me a couple for a nice price).

Another tackle box mis-hap happened once again in October...this time I was coming home from the Cumberland River. It was dark, we were just hanging around the vehicle, enjoying a cigar, a beer and a sandwhich before heading back home. Put all of our stuff in the back of my buddy's vehicle and away we go...about a 3/4 to 1 mile down the road we hear this noise on the roof and back of the car...sounded like a tree limb fell on the car. It suddenly dawned on me, nope that wasn't a tree limb, that was my tackle box, turn around. We turn around and believe it or not we see all these shiny little things on the road. Got out with a flash light and tried to scavenge what a I could....those little Kastmasters and small minnow imitating lures ain't cheap, you'd be surprised how much one of those little tackle boxes can hold too.

This is great.

I hate to tell all the dumb stuff I have done but lets just say that if you see something dry rotted it's better to replace now then after you buddy pulls up on the trolling motor string and ends up almost flipping out of the boat. When the dust settles he has the trolling motor string handle in hand and has broken two rod holders on his way down along with his pride. At least I was prepared enough to put the replacement in the boat....!!!

[QUOTE=SwampDonkey;460302]Backed my trailer in too far one morning, watched the boat float off out into the lake! No one was around so I had to swim out and get the boat! In a big Hurry!!!![/QUOTE]

Glad I'm not the only one who has done that! Pulled that stunt at Cumberland one March years ago. Got to the lake around 3:30 AM. Backed the trailer in the water and tried to launch the boat. Realized I had not backed in far enough. Get back in the truck, start backing down the ramp a little more, hit a bump, boat starts sliding off real nice. I had forgotten to attach it when I went to back it in the second time. I jump out, run down the trailer, too late, boat is now off the trailer and headed out to sea. No one else around. End up going in, 55 degree water. Catch up to the boat about 30 yards out. Swam back to the shore with the boat. No change of cloths and my wallet in my pocket too. Only day I've been striper fishing on Cumberland and really wanted the sun to come up!

Andrew

Just this past spring, I was running the front of my brother-in-laws boat. He has a Minn. Powerdrive TM on a removable bracket. The bracket takes a pin to hold it in place and it used to be very hard to put in and take out. He must have oiled it, or made the hole bigger because now it goes in and comes out very easy. The pin is on a ring which is around the cable that attaches the head to the base.

So we are fishing along and in the course of moving us around, I turn the TM to push us backward. Well, instead of going backward, the TM shoots off the boat and into the water. I quickly drop my rod (which luckily stayed in the boat) and dive down to grab the power cable. The trolling motor is all the way under water, it's on (probably at 7 of 10) and it's spinning in circles. I am LMAO and the guys in the back of the boat are just looking at me like I'm crazy (yet to be confirmed and I'm shocked). We were using the wireless remote and I have it on a clip that's attached to the rod I was using. I slow my laughing long enough to kindly ask if someone could help by grabbing my rod and turning off the motor as at this point, they are still looking at me and haven't moved. Finally one of them grabs the rod and turns the motor off and helps me pull the thing back in. The fun was over at that point and I then realize I have pulled a muscle in my lower back in a major way.

Of course I always remember to put the pin back in when sliding up or back, but it never occurred to me that the cable could lift the pin out during a deploy if the ring isn't in the right spot. You can bet I'll check it from now on..

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cc6koI0fDo&feature=relmfu[/url]

One of many Bill Dance bloopers from YouTube.

Tried trailering the boat with the trolling motor down,...twice. First time my father and I were at rough and had a decent day fishing. After dropping him off at Laurel Branch for the hike to the truck, I decided to drop the tm and try to catch a few more. He gets the trailer in posititon and I put down my rod, sit in the driver's seat, fire it up, and proceed to break the gear housing where the bottom rear pin goes through it and the frame. The second time was a little different. We had launched at Axtel but the fog was THICK, so we decided to just troll around for a few. Got a call on the cell that a family member had been in an accident and was on their way to the hospital. Got in a hurry and did the same dag on thing, but not because of trying to be greedy and catch a few more fish.

On another trip to rough I lost a couple nice reels and three rods in about 45' of water. We had stopped and fished at one of our usual spots and were on our way to the next. I have a zippered rod bag that holds about 8 combos and makes transporting a ton easier. I had opened it to use two rods at the first spot and laid them on top of the bag. We were one of very few boats out that morning and the water was smooth as silk. We were cruising along about 40 mph and out of nowhere the bag just flips up towards us. I instantly dropped the throttle to neutral and reach for the bag as it caught on the motor. It slid off before I could get to it of course. I circled around and it was still halfway floating. Grabbed it and all it had left in it was a mid-grade spinning reel and a berkley series one rod in about 8 pieces. My chronarch/allstar and TD viento/loomis were nowhere to be found. Most expensive fishing trip to date. Hopefully it will remain that way for a long time. Now I take all the rods out at the first stop, fold the bag up, and put it under a console, to avoid this same costly mistake.

OMG, that dude and his bloopers are the funniest thing I've ever seen. I didn't remember the one where he got the crank stuck in his nose that I saw yesterday. He looks at the camera and says with the straighest face, "Well, call the doctor". I cried...

after fishing on day on nolin lake, son and I were on wk heading home, decided a needed a coke, so I pull over, of course my son is sleeping, jump in the boat, grab a coke out of the cooler, and step on the side of the boat, getting ready to jump down, and I slip, fall out of the boat, land on my shoulder, and hit my head knocking me out for I dont know how long, but once I woke up, all I felt was the pain of my shoulder, it was killing me...son apparently woke up because people were honking their horns, walked to the back, and said whats the matter dad, why are you so dirty....I feel on the side away from traffic, so I guess nobody saw me real well, but I still dont know how long I was out. Took me about 3 weeks for my shoulder to feel well enough to fish. I am very very careful now when getting out of my boat....