Tell your scarest moment on the water.....

[HiDefFisherman]

Another great example... hat's off to you.

I have taken a few baths, and been in a couple of surprise storms that put the fear into me, but my scariest moment was more for someone else than myself. A couple of Decembers ago, I was fishing sugar bay. I watched this guy launching a jon boat with about 20-30 5 gallon buckets filled with concrete and lumber (sinking brush). He launched his boat, and with 1 minute his nose of his boat went under and the entire boat sunk. I was across the bay watching this, and flew over to him, almost ripping my trolling motor off (I left it down). I got to him just in time. He was in full winter gear, boots, coveralls, but no life vest. He was starting to go under when I got to him. He was a big guy - but I must have had the adrenaline pumping, because, somehow, I reached in and grabbed him, and pulled him straight up into my boat. It took me a few hours to quit shaking from that. He must have been in a little shock, and didn't seem to realize how serious it was, and kind of laughed it off. Everthything ended up OK in the end. I did go back after it was all said and done and mark the spot where the boat went down, and still fish it. Ever since then, I always wear my life jacket when by myself.

[smuckey41]

i have had a few #1 is when i was about 7or 8 and i was tubeing and fell off some how fowerd and the rope was rapped around my neck and i was stuck under water i was down to my last bit of air and my dad pulled me up. i had a rope burn around my neck for about two weeks. #2 i was on cumberland first time i had ben on the lake we where at my in-laws. my wifes step dad and mom went to the u of l and u of k football game and told me to go out and check on my wifes sister around 4:00. so i had a hand drawn map of the area where they should have ben. so i head out went in a couple coves did not see them. then it happend the boat died. the tank said it had a half tank so i am checking everything nothing. so i decide to switch to the reserve tank and it started. and over the mountin came the big storm so for another hour i looked every where could not find theme so i decide to run wide open to get back in a brand new 3 toon pontoon. when two big bahas come flying by me so i decide to cut over and follow them so it is not so ruff when i cut the two wakes came together and the boat was completley on its side in panic i pulled back the trottel to nutrual and the boat came back down some how i am shaking and cant belive what just happend. so i cruse back to the dock with my shirt off holding it in front of me because the rain was stinging my face so bad. then with the wind when i got to the dock it took me for ever to get the boat tied off. i start to head up the hill and there was my wife and her sister and her friend there in the car completley dry. they where worried about me because i was gone so long and her sister and friend was at a diffrent part of the lake then where they was suppost to be and was back at the house about 15 min. after i left. i wasent very happy but the good thing was everyone was o.k. o and the storm i was in was the one that delayed the football game for a hour and a half if any of you all remember that.
#3 then me and my buddy dave gore was fishin barren about 7 or 8 years ago and we pulled into a cove in feb. or march when we herd someone yelling for help we fly to the bank run about a hundred yards to find a lady had fell of a cliff and was not breathing, she had a stroke or something and fell all the way down and she was in bad shape she finaly started to weez a little but she was not responding. we where doing the best we could to keep her stable my buddy dave was doing most of it wile i was trying to get service to call 911 finaly the ems got there and got her breathing better but she was still going in and out where she would be breathing then she wouldnt be. then she finaly came to and was stable and we helped the ems people carry her up the big cliff and hill to the top where the ems vehicle was so they could get her to the hospital. she was stable and on conchiss and in the hands of the ems and they left. me and my buddy took a long walk back to the boat wich seemed longer to get back then it did to get to the lady. and the rest of the day we hoped the lady was o.k. and we where in shock about what had happend.
just glad that nobody or myself died in these insadents. o and i was in a wave runner crash with two of my buddies on one and me and my sisters boyfriend on the other. my buddies had fell off and my sisters boyfriend decided to throw some wakes so it would be hard to get back on we where doing it all day but this time the wave runner did not turn an started to skipp and it skipped over my buddies head and it through me off and i got trapped in between both wave runners and no body got badley hert except for my buddies wave runner wich had a big hole in the side of it and my buddy made my sisters boyfriend drive that one back because he was afraid it was going to sink.
i set and think of other things that have happend that dont have to do with the water and i have ben very lucky to still be here. there is someone keeping a eye on me. so i guess i am here for a reason what it is i dont know. i am just glad i am still here.

chuck israel