Your Moron Moments

[Woody B]

Not hook related, but.........  every time I think "this is a bad idea",  it's a bad idea.  I was loading my boat a couple weeks ago.  The ramp is pretty flat so the back of the truck is in the water.  It was warm enough that I didn't have on my rubber boots,  but I did have shoes and socks on.  I tied down the front of the boat standing on the trailer tongue.  I had the bed cover rolled over my truck bed, and I didn't want to get my shoes wet.  The curb at the edge of the boat ramp was high enough that it was just above the water 3 feet or so beside the truck bumper.  I decided I'd jump from the bumper onto the curb.  I wish someone would have made a video.  I ended up basically standing on my head in the water.  Not only did I get my shoes wet, but all my clothes, wallet and gun were soaked.  It's a wonder I didn't break my neck or something.  I didn't even get a bruise.   

[Junk Fisherman]

So I motored down the river this past weekend and fished a spot 8 miles from the launch.  After about 15 minutes, I went to move and my motor wouldn't fire up.  I had used a plug-in charger for my phone while I was running which is something I never do.  I figured that was the reason my battery was dead.  I took the time to move a trolling motor from under the front deck to see if that would fire up the motor- no change.  

 

So I figured my trolling motor batteries would not make it back to the launch but there was another launch about a mile away.  Called my wife and she was going to meet me at the launch so I could take her car and go get my truck.  I make it to the next marina and was fishing while waiting for my wife.  Catch a nice fish and figured I'd get everything organized so I could leave as soon as she arrived.

 

Do you know where this is going?  Yeap- I pulled out the kill switch which was attached to my life jacket when I arrived at my first fishing spot.  I just had tunnel vision that my battery charger drained my battery.  Re-attached the kill switch and the motor fired right up.  Thankfully, my wife hadn't left town and started the 45 minute or so drive to the marina.  Only lost a couple hours due to my stupidity.  At least I should never make that mistake again.  

[Jar11591]

I’ve told this story a couple times on here over the years. 
 

Maybe 8 years ago, it was April and the first time since the ice melted that I was going fishing. Pumped is an understatement of how I was feeling about going. Went to a lake where the only access is a private marina, pay to launch. So I pay my fee, back my truck down the ramp and launch my boat. As I slowly start to motor away, I look back, and there is my truck still on the ramp, every door wide open. In my excitement and haste, I forgot to park my truck after I launched ??‍♂️. The owner of the marina was standing outside looking at me very funny. I still laugh at my stupidity on this one. 

[thediscochef]

time for my second post in this thread.
happened like a month ago, but i put my fishing gear behind me while standing on the rocks and rip rap. hooked a rod weird on the backswing, it spun and nailed my cheek with a red eye shad equipped with owner stingers. naturally i rip it from my face, tie a bandana around my face and keep fishing (with a different reel). thank you, me. very cool.

[Gera]

On 2/20/2022 at 11:16 AM, RDB said:

Sitting on the bed last night switching out some trebles for an upcoming trip.  I went to sit up, not realizing that I had dropped a 110 next to me, and buried 2 hooks through my shorts and into the left butt cheek and the other hook through the sheets and into the mattress.  I can only tell what’s going on by feel as I can’t see.  At this point I am pretty immune to hook sticks but I am literally pinned to the bed, no one else is home, no knife, and the hook cutters are 10 feet away teasing me.  I yanked and pulled but gave up and finished my project.  A few hours later the wife comes home but she’s not going to touch it, so I had to wait another hour for one of the boys to get home.  After a few wire clips, a lot of laughter and pictures, and my inability to coach through 2 failed floss tricks, I convinced them to push the hooks through and I was a free man, none the worse for wear.  The only cost was $100 to keep my wife from posting it on her d**n Facebook.

 

Just curious if I am the only one that has brain fart moments.  Unfortunately, this experience is called a Tuesday in my world.

Thanks for sharing.

 

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[EarthboundBob]

I started fishing last year. After snapping my first rod in a confrontation with a rabid raccoon, I went to the store and bought another. Couldn't understand why the hook keeper was on the wrong side. It took me weeks to figure out I'd put a spinning reel on a casting rod. Somehow, though, I still managed to catch some fish with that setup!

[geo g]

I have had many moron moments, but I just had one a few days ago.  I have been bank fishing the local spots a lot and almost everything has been in the one to three pound range.  Then a few days ago I went out and lucky for me, I caught a 23.5",  7 pound bass.  I reached for my phone to take a few pics and I left it on the charger at home.  The wife asked me how was the fishing tonight, and I told her.  The next thing out of her mouth was, NO PIC, NO FISH!  I always take my phone., what a dummy.  Lol!

[Bird]

15 minutes ago, geo g said:

I have had many moron moments, but I just had one a few days ago.  I have been bank fishing the local spots a lot and almost everything has been in the one to three pound range.  Then a few days ago I went out and lucky for me, I caught a 23.5",  7 pound bass.  I reached for my phone to take a few pics and I left it on the charger at home.  The wife asked me how was the fishing tonight, and I told her.  The next thing out of her mouth was, NO PIC, NO FISH!  I always take my phone., what a dummy.  Lol!

I had an epic day couple of years ago with a Jerkbait early spring " prespawn " and actually made a post on this site.

Left my phone in my truck and didn't have a single pic.

It actually made me wonder if anyone actually believed I caught the fish that I claimed.

 

I certainly believe you caught a 7lb bass, congrats.

[gim]

Twice in the past 2 seasons I have placed my $40 30 oz stainless steel Yeti tumbler on the front gunwale of my boat at the access when I was done loading up…and then drove away.  I’m sure it fell off on the first turn both times, and someone found a treasure.

[Swamp Girl]

When I was a kid, my father drove us to northern Michigan to fish for pike. I was so excited! So, I saved up my money and bought an imitation Dardevle spoon. Remember them? Thin metal? Cheap hooks. Still, it was all I could afford. And I cast it with my Zebco 606, let it settle to the bottom, and waited and waited and waited for a pike to pick it up.  

[DanielG]

A few  years ago I caught a bass and was taking the treble hook out from a crankbait. He flopped and I got hooked good in the belly through my t-shirt. I tried and tried to get it out but with him flopping around and the hook in good it wasn't working. I have a platform boat with electric motors. It goes slow and I was 30 minutes from home as the crow flies. I head back. A bass hanging from my belly. One BIG eye looking up at me the whole trip. I began talking to him. "hold on guy, we'll make it" Well, he didn't make it. He died in my arms... er... belly. I got  home and was actually able to cut him loose squeeze the fat and yank the hook out. I take fish off at arms length now.

[DogBone_384]

On 2/20/2022 at 2:33 PM, volzfan59 said:

I've had so many it would be hard to pick one!

X3 .. Dad nicknamed me ‘Charlie Brown’ when I was a kid and I’ve been missing that football my whole life! ?

[the reel ess]

No plug, didn't know the kill switch was pulled, went kayaking with no paddle, twice. Got a trailer wheel off a steep boat ramp and got stuck. Towed too much boat with too little truck to too steep of a ramp. It took me 3 runs to get outta there.

[gim]

11 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

let it settle to the bottom, and waited and waited and waited for a pike to pick it up.  

I have literally had pike pick those up off the bottom.  A big colorful piece of metal with a treble hook on it.  That's how dumb and aggressive those fish are sometimes.

[Deleted account]

On 2/20/2022 at 11:16 AM, RDB said:

Your Moron Moments

I spooled up with fluoro once...

[Susky River Rat]

Not long after I got my boat I was launched it alone had the rope in my hand stepped onto the dock. That rope was never wrapped around the cleat. Emptied my pockets and jumped into about 50 degree water to get it back. 
 

I have an outboard jet. For anyone who doesn’t know Jets are finicky with weight disruption shimming the impeller and keeping it sharp. So you have two different kinds of jet owners. Ahh it runs I’m good or people like me who want to try to get every half MPH I can out of it. I had the bright idea to shim it a little closer than I should. Well there I was tearing the boot off in the parking lot to take the shim back out because it wouldn’t start.

You live, learn then do the next dumb thing. 

 

[ScottW]

Hmm, so many. Where to start? After I retired I picked fishing up again. Due to my old work hours I had no time to even think fishing so I gave all my gear away. Starting anew I bought a couple spincasting combos (Zebco) and some lures. Tied on a Meps spinner (1/4 oz) and immediately caught a catfish from the pond here. As I’m trying to remove the treble hook, he starts croaking for lack of a better word and I impaled my right hand in the palm when he jerked. I was so concentrated on him croaking I forgot what my hands were doing. Real n00b move on my part.

[Darth-Baiter]

for the record.  my biggest moron moment EVER didnt involve fishing.  I still blush when I think about it decades later.  

[Jar11591]

28 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

for the record.  my biggest moron moment EVER didnt involve fishing.  I still blush when I think about it decades later.  

[Bankc]

Four times now I've gotten a crankbait caught up in some brush on a windy day and tried to move my kayak over top of it to pop it free, only to run over my line and get my line tangled up in my trolling motor.  Each time, I had to paddle to the bank so I could get out and walk around to the back to remove the prop so I could get the line out, because I can't reach it from inside my kayak.  Once, it was on a 100°+ day and it happened about a mile from any part of the bank that I could get out of my kayak on (thick vegetation everywhere).  30 minutes of heavy paddling in the heat and high winds wore me out.  And yet, no lessons have been learned.  I will do it again, because crankbaits aren't cheap and it's always windy here.  

[Zcoker]

Maybe not a moron moment but a disturbing moment nonetheless. I was deep in the Everglades unloading my Kayak and gear at night. I was on the passenger side of my truck getting stuff out, finished up and then shut the door. When I went around to the driver's side, the door was locked....all the doors were suddenly locked...the firggin truck "decided" to lock itself up. Well, my phone, my keys, all were inside. Only option was to break the glass, break the glass on my nice new Ford Ranger. So I took a massive rock and it took a good 6-7 times at full power to bash it in! I was like, what the x*a**&^, It was like hitting steel! The rock would literally bounce back. I learned the hard way on that one, learned to never, ever break the driver's glass on newer vehicles because it's the very expensive laminated glass to the tune of $600! The other windows are not laminated and are reasonable to replace. What a night! I still went fishing lol 

 

 

[Jar11591]

1 hour ago, Zcoker said:

I learned the hard way on that one, learned to never, ever break the driver's glass on newer vehicles because it's the very expensive laminated glass to the tune of $600!

I was about to say, that’s not normal tempered window glass, that’s lammy. Didn’t know about that on newer vehicles. Lammy will cut you up bad too if you’re not careful. 

[Masaccio]

16 hours ago, Zcoker said:

Maybe not a moron moment but a disturbing moment nonetheless. I was deep in the Everglades unloading my Kayak and gear at night. I was on the passenger side of my truck getting stuff out, finished up and then shut the door. When I went around to the driver's side, the door was locked....all the doors were suddenly locked...the firggin truck "decided" to lock itself up. Well, my phone, my keys, all were inside. Only option was to break the glass, break the glass on my nice new Ford Ranger. So I took a massive rock and it took a good 6-7 times at full power to bash it in! I was like, what the x*a**&^, It was like hitting steel! The rock would literally bounce back. I learned the hard way on that one, learned to never, ever break the driver's glass on newer vehicles because it's the very expensive laminated glass to the tune of $600! The other windows are not laminated and are reasonable to replace. What a night! I still went fishing lol 

 

 

Cudos for guts and determination!

[A-Jay]

17 hours ago, Zcoker said:

Maybe not a moron moment but a disturbing moment nonetheless. I was deep in the Everglades unloading my Kayak and gear at night. I was on the passenger side of my truck getting stuff out, finished up and then shut the door. When I went around to the driver's side, the door was locked....all the doors were suddenly locked...the firggin truck "decided" to lock itself up. Well, my phone, my keys, all were inside. Only option was to break the glass, break the glass on my nice new Ford Ranger. So I took a massive rock and it took a good 6-7 times at full power to bash it in! I was like, what the x*a**&^, It was like hitting steel! The rock would literally bounce back. I learned the hard way on that one, learned to never, ever break the driver's glass on newer vehicles because it's the very expensive laminated glass to the tune of $600! The other windows are not laminated and are reasonable to replace. What a night! I still went fishing lol 

 

 

That happened to me several years ago - truck locked itself ?

 It was 3 AM on the way to the lake and I was getting gas and not in the middle of the everglades.

Called 1-800 onstar from the Quik mart and they unlocked it from 'space'.

Took 2 minutes and I was on my way.

Key fob lives in my pocket now.

A-Jay

 

[Deleted account]

17 hours ago, Zcoker said:

I learned the hard way on that one, learned to never, ever break the driver's glass on newer vehicles because it's the very expensive laminated glass to the tune of $600! The other windows are not laminated and are reasonable to replace. What a night! I still went fishing lol 

 

 

Explain to a guy not from Jersey why you would choose to break the glass on the drivers side as opposed to the passenger or a rear one, why not break the windshield while you are at it...