Fishing SSF Nominations:

[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