Worst Thing That Has Happened To You While Fishing?

[bassh8er]

Slow Down.

 

A-Jay

Great advice. I'm guessing you've never driven fast enough to skid if something ran in front of your vehicle?

[Sam]

Forgot to put plug in the boat when I took my wife out on the Historic James River.

 

She can't swim.

 

Boat started to sink when we stopped to have a picnic on the boat.

 

It was embarrassing but looking back we laugh about it now.

 

Plug goes into boat at home before I leave for the ramp.

 

(I had to run fast back to the ramp to get the water out of the boat; trailered it; went to a boating store and bought another plug; installed it; and returned to the river.  I now carry extra plugs on the boat.)

[A-Jay]

Great advice. I'm guessing you've never driven fast enough to skid if something ran in front of your vehicle?

 

Or I have and learned from it.

 

In Every Situation a driver is responsible for the speed at which a vehicle is operated.

 

A-Jay

[cook7200]

Just joined but thought I would tell my story. I hope this never happens to anyone! Was fishing late at night with FIL had a great night with him. We were trailering the boat, I attempted to get back on the boat after backing the trailer down and did not notice my foot control for trolling motor had flipped upside down. I climb in and slipped on the back side of the control. I flew up and parallel to the ground. My lower spine landed on the gunwale. I bounced off of it and landed in 12" of water on top of a 10" rock. I lost consciousness with my head below the water line. My FIL realized what had happened and grabbed me out of the water. I came back awake in pain. The boat began floating, thankfully I had a rope tied to the front. I grabbed the rope and gave it to my FIL. Cracked rib and spine, two weeks in bed, and the opportunity for my wife to say, now do you think it's wise to go fishing by yourself!!!! I'm glad my dad was with you. I am to. Valuable lesson learned that night

[Tarleet]

Two thing, broke my Dobyns Savvy Series rod and on my ocean kayak trident knocked my mojo bass rod in the water. Like an idiot I didn't put any rod floats on. Last time I went kayak fishing without a rod float in a rod.

[FrogFreak]

My two sons and I decided to go to a local lake and try our luck. It was early in the year up north but they still wanted to use a couple float tubes to get out a bit further. Just to explain, my sons are grown men and tend to make their own decisions without listening to their father. Well I was in my kayak and they were in the float tubes. Fishing was going fine and I took a break and leaned back in my kayak and lost my new Oakley sunglasses overboard. Then my one son informs me that he is very cold. I didn't realize the water was that cold. So we decided to head back in right into the wind. Well they were both cold and it was a bit of a hike to get back to the landing so I let them grab onto the kayak and I paddled us home. While I was paddling, my older boy moved up into the path of my paddling and I caught his/my brand new rod/reel combo and it went into the drink. So final tally for the day was about $400 overboard, some sore shoulders from hauling float tubes into the wind and 2 very cold young men.

[FirstnameLastname]

Follow me here. I; broke a rod, lost 10 or twelve bucks of equipment, bruised myself up badly and ruined some clothes. This was all in one day.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I have had a 60$ lost day. Lost crankbaits, ruined a spool of line, and while trying to retrieve my cranks, I lost my lure retriever. I'm glad my legend tournament made it through that day...

[bmlum415]

I lost an 8lber when I swung it up a 4 foot bank because I was too lazy to walk down and proceeded to lose a 6lber the following week next to the boat

[John V]

my entire zipper bag (large lunchbox size) of soft plastics fell off the back of my truck TODAY, and I didn't notice because the rearview mirror fell off 3 days ago. (It's quite hot in the AL). Instead of fishing, I spent the morning walking hwy 67. someone must have scooped it up because I only found three items from the bag.

[C0lt]

Worst fishing experience happened to me today. 

 

I walked across the street to my neighbors house, down through his back yard onto a short trail to a city reservoir. After fishing for a while a woman walked by with her dog who I knew (I was old friends with her daughter), we talked for a while, and she walked on. about 10 minutes later I heard someone screaming my name. I immediately dropped my rod (thank god not into the water) and ran over, at the other side of the dammed area was the one with her head and face covered in blood. I still don't know the whole story but some how she fell onto a pile of rocks and cut her head open pretty seriously in multiple spots. Luckily, I had been in the scouting program for about ten years so knew exactly what to do (call 911, preform first aid, which ruined one of my favorite t shirts, kind of bummed but i cant complain). Ended up having to sprint back up the trail to the roads to find the paramedics. She seemed like she was going to be ok she was just freaking out pretty badly. pretty scary experience. 

 

to make matters even worse, before this happened I lost my new buzz plug to a tree limb, and I had only caught 2 very small large mouths. I may go back tonight but it seems like a bad *** haha

[OntarioFishingGuy]

Worst fishing experience happened to me today. 

 

I walked across the street to my neighbors house, down through his back yard onto a short trail to a city reservoir. After fishing for a while a woman walked by with her dog who I knew (I was old friends with her daughter), we talked for a while, and she walked on. about 10 minutes later I heard someone screaming my name. I immediately dropped my rod (thank god not into the water) and ran over, at the other side of the dammed area was the one with her head and face covered in blood. I still don't know the whole story but some how she fell onto a pile of rocks and cut her head open pretty seriously in multiple spots. Luckily, I had been in the scouting program for about ten years so knew exactly what to do (call 911, preform first aid, which ruined one of my favorite t shirts, kind of bummed but i cant complain). Ended up having to sprint back up the trail to the roads to find the paramedics. She seemed like she was going to be ok she was just freaking out pretty badly. pretty scary experience. 

 

to make matters even worse, before this happened I lost my new buzz plug to a tree limb, and I had only caught 2 very small large mouths. I may go back tonight but it seems like a bad *** haha

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[TNBassin']

Worst thing to happen to me fishing, was losing one of my Dad's lures. I should've never fished it. I've regretted losing it for years.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

Worst thing to happen to me fishing, was losing one of my Dad's lures. I should've never fished it. I've regretted losing it for years.

Think of it as giving the water a gift.

[TrippyJai]

My worse experience was on a cottage trip. We decided to fish through the night and while moving to another spot, we had motor issues and were stranded on the river. We tried to row back, but we were struggling real bad with the swarm of mosquitoes. Literally being eaten alive. Luckily, a passing boater gave us a ride back to the cottage. Gave him a 6pack of beer to thank him.

[deaknh03]

On a party boat bluefishing, had my camera, phone and other valuables in a bag on the bench behind me. Genius next to me decides to try to cast, hooks my bag and flings it away into the deep blue....

[Fishing Cop]

I had to take a CRAP! So, I hung off the edge of my aluminum boat swaying and praying. But it hit the edge just right and bounced into the boat. I forgot to bring the toilet paper. Yea, you guessed it. I had to get it out. Sucked!!!

[Nuffsaid23]

Getting chased by a giant hornets nest 500 yards out of the woods till eventually jumping in the lake and nearly landing on a snake that may or may not have been venomous...

[webertime]

August 3rd 2013.

In the middle of Missisquoi Bay on Lake Champlain, about 130pm.

Tournament sucked.

Wife called and told me my dog had just died.

Sat in the back of the boat for a moment and cried, and talked to her.

About 15 minutes later a huge hail storm hit, by the time I got my rain gear on, it stopped.  I was wet and hot...  

240 pm trying to get back to the launch another hail storm.

I'm sad, wet, hot, and sore.

Got home at 500 to realize I had left my phone and wallet in the boat and they were at my boater's house, across the county...

Wife stops me before I go to get them and tells me she needs to tell me something...  greaaaaat...

About 10 minutes after she and I spoke about my dog, my step mother called and gave her the news that my father had 10 months to 2 years to live, his cancer had returned...

I'm tearing up writing this.

 

That my friends is a bad day of fishing.

[Nuffsaid23]

Or me and my friend having to row 2 miles in a jon boat with one oar after the trolling motor died in 25 mile an hour wind with gust at 40 blowing against us. That was an all day journey right there.

[Master Bait'r]

Hookset! Weirdness? Fish off. What's that on my line? Oh. It's my rod tip. Nice.

[FishTank]

Where do I want to start......

 

1.  I hooked into a dead body.....  A small lake I had been fishing in for years when I was kid had become a dumping ground.  A nursing school dumped a cadaver and used medical supplies in it. I was fishing braid and got snagged.   The body was in shallow water.  It floated to the top.  I called the police and spent the rest of the day freaking out......

 

2.  When I was a child I went fishing with two of my brothers and my dad.  We went to a strip pit pond in the middle of no where (southern Indiana).  We drove off road for about 15 miles to get       to this honey hole.  When we got there, it was amazing.  We caught tons of fish,  Large Mouth bass, blue gill, and catfish.  When we got ready to leave, my dad asked my brother for the          keys to the car and he tossed them to my dad, four feet over his head and into the lake.  We spent the night outside on the ground.  We go eaten alive by bugs.  We then walked backed    to the nearest thing that looked like civilization.   I don't remember anything but walking forever.  What was the greatest trip turned into the worst.

 

3. I put a hook into my brothers forehead while trying to cast.  It was so deep it required surgery.

 

4.  While fishing with my father, he went to set the hook with some top water bait and pulled so hard he tipped the john boat over.  Dumping me and all of the equipment into the lake.  He lost his keys, wallet, and pocket money.  Bad thing was, he was fishing a new setup for the first time.  I can't remember exactly what it was but it was the most expensive set up he had.  To make matters worse, his friends and my friends all witnessed it.  About a month later, my dad did the same thing again only to hold onto his new, replacement rod and reel this time.  When he got back into the boat he reeled in his line and he had hooked into something.  It was the first rod and reel he dumped in lake.  Irony....

[.ghoti.]

We were on a trip to far northern Miinesota, about 60 miles out from Grand Marais, into the Superior National Forest. Out fishing one evening, when I had a heart attack. We about as far from the lodge as we could get on that lake. It felt like somebody had driven a stake into the middle of my chest and then set it on fire. My wife was with me. She said I passed out twice, but I don't remember that.

They say, in a situation like this, that minutes count. Here's how the minutes added up.

30 minute boat ride back to the lodge.

Two hour wait for the only ambulance in the area.

90 minute ambulance ride to a clinic the size of my house. They gave me a $3000 shot that saved my life, and shot me full of morphine.

Two hours at the clinic waiting for a helicopter. More morphine. Lots of morphine.

Two hour helicopter ride to Duluth, completely stoned on morphine.

Got to Duluth about 2:00 am. the Doctor showed up about 5.

Into surgery, got two stents, and survived the experience.

Now, to add insult to injury, when all was said and done, my insurance company left me with $18,000 worth of unpaid bills.

I'm still fishing.

[roadwarrior]

Geez...I think I might take up a different hobby after all that!

[deaknh03]

Where do I want to start......

1. I hooked into a dead body..... A small lake I had been fishing in for years when I was kid had become a dumping ground. A nursing school dumped a cadaver and used medical supplies in it. I was fishing braid and got snagged. The body was in shallow water. It floated to the top. I called the police and spent the rest of the day freaking out......

2. When I was a child I went fishing with two of my brothers and my dad. We went to a strip pit pond in the middle of no where (southern Indiana). We drove off road for about 15 miles to get to this honey hole. When we got there, it was amazing. We caught tons of fish, Large Mouth bass, blue gill, and catfish. When we got ready to leave, my dad asked my brother for the keys to the car and he tossed them to my dad, four feet over his head and into the lake. We spent the night outside on the ground. We go eaten alive by bugs. We then walked backed to the nearest thing that looked like civilization. I don't remember anything but walking forever. What was the greatest trip turned into the worst.

3. I put a hook into my brothers forehead while trying to cast. It was so deep it required surgery.

4. While fishing with my father, he went to set the hook with some top water bait and pulled so hard he tipped the john boat over. Dumping me and all of the equipment into the lake. He lost his keys, wallet, and pocket money. Bad thing was, he was fishing a new setup for the first time. I can't remember exactly what it was but it was the most expensive set up he had. To make matters worse, his friends and my friends all witnessed it. About a month later, my dad did the same thing again only to hold onto his new, replacement rod and reel this time. When he got back into the boat he reeled in his line and he had hooked into something. It was the first rod and reel he dumped in lake. Irony....

man, theres a jinx in your family..