Fishing SSF Nominations:

[HURRICANEBOB]

Hear ye all good fellows:

Thou shalt be it known that long hours of trailering and many hours of employment combined with spousal harrassment and economic concerns, combine to create the premise for "SEVERELY STUPID FISHERMAN".

Given that no man can endure nor conquer all such perilous staits, we all succumb to these trials and persevere none the less.

Okay, all the English grammer aside, what really is the stupidest thing you have done, or seen another angler do? Not a simple mistake with minor consequences. No sir! I mean the mother of all brain far----ts. Share em. You get double creidt if you mention names. You get triple credit if the names are accurate! And if you saw me do it, my name is Doug Meyer.

[zx150]

Sell a boat then regret it as soon as it was out of the drive. It was paid for and a great boat. Now my buddy is on the prowl.

[CATCHEMALL]

Once we fished a little tournament with some fellow co-workers after work one evening. About half way through the tournament one of the guys pulled up beside me and said I have to leave. I asked him if something was wrong and he said that today if my anniversary and I just remembered it. And if that wasen't bad enough we managed to talk him into staying for the rest of the tournament. Needles to say when he got home he got an ear full and it ended up costing him alot more than it normally would.

[Swift1]

Well here is my story .........You know how it is when youve had a bad tourney and your a little tired , frustrated and ready to go home . Well you come in and say to your partner, do you want to weigh these fish and the other says throw em back for all I care I am ready to go home. Well I have learned over the years especially at Taylorsville never throw a fish back at the ramp. Well to make a short story long we did that I believe three times last year and cost us at least a grand , not the end of the world but you can have a little fun at Bass pro for that .......................Dumb , dumb , dumb............ Jarrod

[DJD]

Well here is my story .........You know how it is when youve had a bad tourney and your a little tired , frustrated and ready to go home . Well you come in and say to your partner, do you want to weigh these fish and the other says throw em back for all I care I am ready to go home. Well I have learned over the years especially at Taylorsville never throw a fish back at the ramp. Well to make a short story long we did that I believe three times last year and cost us at least a grand , not the end of the world but you can have a little fun at Bass pro for that .......................Dumb , dumb , dumb............ Jarrod

Dooh!! You win! That hurts...once but three times?

[sglass]

I once tried to put the boat on the trailer with the trolling motor down. That does not work by the way. I bent my shaft pretty good. Sad part was an older couple was yelling at me to put it up while I was idling to the trailer but I was in my own little world of stupidity.

[kygorski]

My cousin showed his wife how to back a trailer down to the launch ramp, he forgot to mention park and brake. it wasn't that bad engine kept running, but passenger cab was ruined. a smaratin jumped in and stopped it fro going under, another lady.

[Bandit1]

Here is mine. Scared me to death at the time. We was at the Top-8 tournament at Tell City last weekend. There was me & 3 other boats going into Clover Creek on Sunday morning, I was the first one there, there was 2 boats behind me, don't know there names, then there was a good friend of mine, we will just call him "Paul Woods". Well, I got to the mouth of the creek & noticed this log laying across 1/3- 1/2 of the creek & there was a huge root wad on the left side, so I set the boat down to get by this mess that developed over night. Now this log is as big around if not a little bigger than a telephone pole in diameter. So 2 of the boats behind me slow down to close to an idle to get around this, well I get alomst by it & I hear this boat running WOT towards me from behind, when I turn around, here he comes. He has a Skeeter 202 with a 200 yamaha on the back. He hits this log right in the center, the boat sails about 3 feet out of the water, motor pops up & hits the back deck, motor screeming, boat flying, oh did I mention the bridge not to far in front of all of this. He never let out of it when all of this happened. I just knew he was going to slam into the bridge piling, but thank God that he still had enough control to miss them.

He did get ptotested by one of the boats that was in the line to get in with me, not by me btw. I just told him what I thought of the whole thing face to face. It was a bunch of bull, it was very dangerous.

All I can say folks is if there are boats in front of you & they all 3 slow down, there may be a really good reason. He claimed it didnt tear anything up, but I'm sure it had to crack his transom.

Jason

[BASSKING]

well several years ago i was fishing northfork on Rough with my wife , cousin and his girlfreind when we watched a guy backing a traier down to the water he sets the break gets outand is guiding his wife in. this is a big ski boat 28-30 foot with a lot of power no doubt , so he is standind on the tounge of the traier with whinch strap in hand guiding her in and everything was going great. as she is sliding up the trailer the boat seemed to slip out of gear and wide open up the trailer past the whinch and hits him and pins him right up against the back of a van. while hes pinned up on the back od the van with bow slamming in his chest shes is freaking out and still going strong. luckily there was several guys standing aroung who were riding with him and one jumps in the boat and backs off the throdel so the others can get him out of there, he was hurt no doubt but when they got him out from under the bow he went in the water after his wife. yelling and screaming at her while the other guys calmed him down. this guy could have been injured a lot worse and possibly killed and you could hear his wife screming she didnt know what to do and it was the first time she had ever loaded a boat on a trailer so it wasnt entirely her faught

[410th]

Went to Cumberland River late in the evening. to fish it at night. I got to the ramp well before dark so I was in no hurry. A feller asked me if he could take 3 boats out in front of me, due to him having to drive to back to Ohio. He offered to help me put my boat in as soon as he got all 3 boats out. I told him to go ahead and I did not need any help puting mine in, and thanked him for the offer to help me. Well he got 2 of them out and I was waiting for the 3rd boat to come up the ramp, so I waited. He came up the ramp with out a boat and told me to go ahead and put mine in, his buddies was at the dam fishing again. Once again he offered his help in launching mine, so I told him I have done this a 1000 time's and could get it by my self, so I thanked him again and backed down the ramp. Got to the bottom of the ramp. unhooked the boat from the trailer, checked the plug, hooked rope to the boat, checked everything twice, got in the truck and backed the boat in the water, and this feller was watching me the whole time and offering to help, and stupid me kept telling him no thanks and saying I have done this a 1000 time's by myself. So I back the boat in the water and hit the breaks, boat come's off the trailer and heads down the river with no rope hooked to it. This guy if really laughing now, and asking me how many time's I have done this all by myself. All I could do was laugh now and watch my boat head down the river. Thank goodness the 3rd boat went and got my boat for me. We all had a big laugh.



Billy

[raincheck]

Any one who fished this weekend need i say anymore.

[Tex1351]

My son (Trenton) and my wife (Renee) were getting ready to load my boat on the trailer at Taylorsville one afternoon. My son being 6 years old at the time knew at that age how to load a boat. I decided to tell my wife to do that day since there was so much boat traffic at the ramp. As she is getting ready to put the boat on the trailer she decides to put it in nutural for some unknown reason. I tell her to run the boat up and as she proceeds she doesn't put it in gear. Smoke was ROOOOOOLLLLLLING out from the motor like a Jimmy Johnson doing a burn out. She doesn't realize what she was doing. I wasn't being very nice and made her cry like a baby. I couldn't help but laugh at her everytime I looked over at her on the ride home. She hasn't been back to the lake with me since!!!!! It's probably better this way.