I'm an idiot sometimes

[Chaz Hickcox]

I got stuck on a sunken barge, and had to wait for a yacht to steam by on the intracoastal waterway. Once I was off and I tried to start my main, my crankin' battery died. For some weird reason I had some stereo wire on my boat, which was lucky because I was able to jump my crankin battery from my trolling battery. To do this though, I had to take my back seat out of the slot to get in the aft compartment. The wind was goin nuts and another yacht was coming by so in my haste I forgot to put by seat back in the hole. I was two miles down the river before I thought about it. It was obviously off the boat. I went back to see if it floated, but it didn't and I lost a whole *&^% seat! Talk about an idiot day.

[K_Mac]

I fell off the boat twice (mine and a friends). Lost: 2 pair of prescription glasses ($700), 2 cell phones ($100 insured), 1 spinning rod/reel ($150). That is calendar year 2009.  :-[

The first thing my friend said to me once I was back in his boat after a very near cold water drowning incident was, "Kirby you're going to have to find someone else to fish with tomorrow. I can't take anymore of this."

Spend much time fishing on a boat and you will see some of the dumbest things, and if you're lucky you won't be the one doing them. :

[MaineBassMan]

I was at the docks just before weigh in at one of our small local tournaments a few years back. I think it was the first or second tournament my father and I had ever fished. I was taking the fish out of the live well and putting them into the tourney bag. We saved the biggest bass for last, and when I pulled him out he shook his head and I dropped him on the back deck. He flopped all over and I chased him like a fumbled football, but to no avail he ended up back in the lake and I think he would of been the lunker fish for the tournament. No one saw this happen so of course none of the other fisherman believed us. The lunker fish was worth around $400 dollars.

This next one wasn't me but it was very comical still. My Father and I took my Grandmother (she was around 65 at the time) fishing. Long story short we were fishing in this cove that had some standing trees in about eight foot of water. We had just seen this huge snapping turtle right under the boat just as my Grandmother made this cast and got stuck in one of the trees. My dad and I were still looking at the snapping turtle in the water, as the boat drifted close enough to the tree, my Grandmother started to reach for the zara spook. She almost had when my father, (unintentionally) hit the trolling motor and with that we heard a loud "CA-SPLASH!!" We turned in time to see her enter the water, she went completely under, but just as fast as she entered the water she resurfaced and managed to re-enter the boat all in one sudden motion. I couldn't believe a woman of her age could move that fast. She said all she could think off was that snapping turtle and that scene in the movie JAWS where the girl is treading water and the shark takes her under, daaa dunt, daaa dunt, da dunt, da dunt, da dunt ;D!

[Needemp]

This next one wasn't me but it was very comical still. My Father and I took my Grandmother (she was around 65 at the time) fishing. Long story short we were fishing in this cove that had some standing trees in about eight foot of water. We had just seen this huge snapping turtle right under the boat just as my Grandmother made this cast and got stuck in one of the trees. My dad and I were still looking at the snapping turtle in the water, as the boat drifted close enough to the tree, my Grandmother started to reach for the zara spook. She almost had when my father, (unintentionally) hit the trolling motor and with that we heard a loud "CA-SPLASH!!" We turned in time to see her enter the water, she went completely under, but just as fast as she entered the water she resurfaced and managed to re-enter the boat all in one sudden motion. I couldn't believe a woman of her age could move that fast. She said all she could think off was that snapping turtle and that scene in the movie JAWS where the girl is treading water and the shark takes her under, daaa dunt, daaa dunt, da dunt, da dunt, da dunt ;D!

Dropped Grandma in the drink! That's horrible.  I think I'm going to hell for laughing at that!

[turret_plug]

I gill hooked my first whopper..... I was so excited about catching the fish! Anyhow, I knew I had to cut the hook to remove it and in my excitement, cut the hook, held the fish in my hand and tossed my rod and reel into the abyss of the lake! At least I kept the fish!

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Tying on a swim jig, cutting the extra line, tossing the swim jig in the water and realizing that I cut the wrong line and lost my swim jig.

Too funny! ;D I did that exact same thing once. I also threaded a trailer on a brand new jig one day then proceded to toss it overboard like I normally do except this time it wasn't even tied on my line yet. :

Got irritated one day(over who knows what) and threw my needle nose down on the floor of the boat(boat is aluminum). Well to make a long story short those pliers stuck in the bottom and dubbed as a plug for the rest of the day. Double DOH!

Broke one of my Croix legend tourneys one day.Got a crank stuck in a sunken tree and was using the rod tip to poke and prod and try to free the lure.It was quite windy out and I had my other hand on the TM tiller. A huge gust popped up out of nowhere and the first four inches of my prized rod snapped like a twig as the boat spun around,and I still never got the bait back. By far one of the stupidest things I've ever done, trading a 230.00 dollar rod for a 8.99 crank :-[. I guess we learn the hard way sometimes,(for me it's all the time) and I have a heck of a lot more respect for my equipment now

(If this is a thread about CF's I can go on all day as I have many LOL. Part of fishing I guess)

[bassman31783]

Lost a good pair of sunglasses because I had them on my hat when I took it off to swat away a wasp. 

Also sometimes I get a so excited about getting to a new spot that I forget to bring up the trolling motor.  The last time I did that I ruined a pretty nice trolling motor.  Nothing like putting the hammer down only to have your tolling motor bent to H$!! because it hit a stump  > ;D

[Sam]

Trying to save time in a tournament, I tied on a brand new DT-4 on a spinning rig and threw it into the trees on the very first cast.

Also cut the line and threw a Rat-L-Trap overboard.  ;D   ;D   ;D

[Bass XL]

Measured a fish on the board. It was not a keeper. Somehow I threw the board in the water instead of the fish.

Haha....awesome! Thats something I would do.

[Bassn Blvd]

I'm not embarrassed to be an idiot.

This is what happens when you back the trailer down but decide to sit in the truck and eat lunch. Yep, the boat floated off the trailer and into the middle of the lake. Private lake so no one was available to give me a ride to get her so I had to swimming.

[Nkybassfisherman]

me and my dad were fishing at craigs creek in the ohio river for crappie one day and decided to make a run well we forgot to pull up the trolling motor and when we hammered it down the trolling motor snapped off and almost hit us in the face, then immediately sunk to the bottom of the river!! > ;D

[RoLo]

You acted out of compassion for the fish, and that's never idiotic.

I'd tell you about some of the idiotic things I've done over the years, but you haven't got the time ;D 

Roger

[b.Lee]

I am a lefty caster, was trying to teach myself how to throw righty, I threw my whole rig in the water. luckily it was in 2 feet of water.

[angler1]

I was fishing on a bridge leaning on the concrete, I hooked a fish and was reeling it, when I got the fish to the bridge I did not want to put the stress of the fishes weight totally on the rod tip b/c it was a 10 drop to the water. Not thinking I grabbed the line in front of my rod tip to take the weight off the rod so I could pull the rest of the line and fish up by hand. I set my drag loose so I could put the rod on the ground without moving my position and possibly having my line rub against the concrete wall. For some reason after I loosened the drag I let go of the rod.......that I was still holding over the bridge. I ended up landing the fish then had to peel off a ton of line to get my rod back which I did.

[angler1]

I'm not embarrassed to be an idiot.

This is what happens when you back the trailer down but decide to sit in the truck and eat lunch. Yep, the boat floated off the trailer and into the middle of the lake. Private lake so no one was available to give me a ride to get her so I had to swimming.

That looks like it really sucked.