Boneheaded Things You've Done

[smljaw]

Dang, you guys are a bunch of boneheads!!! LOL!!! Just kidding, this is hilarious!

I'm throwing my favorite buzzbait a few weeks ago. I bought this bait at Lexington Boat Show about 10 years ago. It was a custom bait (can't find them anywhere). I've caught a pile of bass on it! Anyway, I throw it for a while and decide to put something else on that rod. I'm thinking about my next offering while cutting the buzzbait off. The next thing I know, I underhand toss the my buzzbait right off the back of the boat into the lake. I just stood there and looked at the water for about 5 seconds, wondering why in the world I just did that.

I've got a few more but they pale in comparison to some I've already read! This is awesome!!!

[DJD]

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.

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.

[Chubminnow]

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.

[offdtop]

The day before I was going to fish my first bass tournament with my buddy, it was predicted to be a 500 boat tourney on a Northern Missouri lake. He really wanted his old tri hull to look good so we decided to put down 1/2" greenboard and put all new carpet on it all new trim and the works. We decided to attach the new floor with drywall screws, well we got her all prettied up and headed to the lake.

We put in the morning of the tournament cause we didnt have time to prefish and about a half hour waiting for take off his bilge pumps came on and just kept pumping..... one team laughed and called us "the fire boat" because of the dual streams pumping outta the bilge. we were able to fish all day but when we pulled out and was wiping the boat off my rag got caught on something when I looked under the boat there were screws all in a perfect little row on both sides of the boat........ bad thing is we only used 1" screws. New project only costed about $400 (fiberglass repair)

[elnutsmalljaws]

I bought a Terminator Titanium Buzzbait when they first came out a few years ago at about $7 each if I recall. I was bragging to my buddy at how I was going to smoke him at Ky Lake that morning as I was attaching the Palomar knot. Cinched down the knot, bit off the "tag" end and flipped the bait over the side of the boat, PLOP, there went the bait for I had bit off the wrong end of the line and just threw the bait overboard. We were only in about 8 feet of water at the time and I tried everything to drag the bait up but no luck. I still don't know if the Terminator Titanium Buzzbaits will catch fish or not because I refuse to buy another one.

I have a terminal tackle plano that weighs probably 15lbs with all the different tungsten, brass and Gamakatsu hooks and junk. It is one of those specially designed for terminal tackle with all the different little slots for all the different size sinkers and hooks. And for those that know my tackle, you know it is a small bait and tackle shop that I carry around. Not once but TWICE, I have been tieing on and had that plano balancing on top of my tacke box only to KNOCK IT OVER IN THE BOTTOM OF THE BOAT. If you want to kill a couple of hours a night sorting terminal tackle in the hotel room trying to get it all back where it goes give this a try TWICE. My buddy Chunknwind was with me both times and was laughing his butt off the first time when I did it and pretty much scooped it up with my hands and dumped it in a bag to take back to the room. Then he realized at how much time it was going to take for me to organize all my junk and stopped laughing. It literally took both of us a couple of hours sorting 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 1/2, 1, 1 1/2 oz tungstens and 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0 offset and varius worm hooks plus all my beads, rattles, and other stuff

[gocards40]

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....!!!

[Duayne]

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..

[smljaw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cc6k...feature=relmfu

One of many Bill Dance bloopers from YouTube.

[Duayne]

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...

[MLTSPCS]

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.