dumbest thing you've done while fishing

[tkite16]

When I got my first boat. We were at table rock. Boat ran good all day till we were ready to leave. I tried to start it and it wasn't getting fire. We took all spark plugs out and checked them and couldnt find it. Paid a guy $80 to pull me in.

Got home dropped it off at the shop. He called me before I got home said the boat was fixed to come get it. When I got there he said. "Do you know what a kill switch is"? I wanted to crawl under a rock.

[loodkop]

I towed my boat a bit over a 1000 miles to go tigerfishing in the Zambezi river. First day was a blast and the second morning went well until the boat wouldn't start leaving us stranded miles from camp. Luckily another boat in our group came past and could tow me in. Long story short we couldn't fix it and had to hire a replacement for the rest of the week. Back home the mechanic found that there was a loose wire on the kill switch in the control box. Needless to say the boat hire worked out a bit more expensive than the free repair.

[wevo1985]

i was launching the boat and pushing it off the trailer and stepped in a deep hole that was deeper than i was tall and had everything in my pockets( iphone, wallet with money, car lock remote). destroyed most of it, got soaked, and it was a cold day. lol.

[retiredbosn]

Good gosh, where do I start, I've hooked myself lipping bass, knocked rods and reels into the drink, just about any mishap I've had. One particular bad week I wrote the following,

I wrote this in 2009. I am very incident prone, not accident prone, rather incident. Things happen to me that are so unique and funny, that I sometimes wonder why me. Example, my float trip yesterday, we (my daughter and myself) put in around 7 am and everything was going good, caught a few fish, and decided to head down the river, through the first set of rapids the boat drags, nothing unusual. A few minutes later and we are sitting in the boat with water up past our ankles! The drag knocked the livewell compartment loose and of course the boat is flooding. We are to far down the river to go back, and there is nowhere to pull out until we get to Ronceverte. Fortunately the pressure inside equalizes with what is coming in and the flooding stops. No harm and we decide to keep fishing, the fishing is a little slow, and I decide to paddle down river and get to the submerged islands so we can fish. As we go through the last set of ripples before the islands and the wind catches us and pushes us up river! I try to row against the wind, no use, I stand and try to pole the boat down river, no success there either. As a last resort I get out of the boat and start pushing it down the river, of course I soak my cell phone, it is ruined, my wallet is wet, etc. I trip over rocks and cut my feet, I mean I can not win!!!

On another outing with my son Lucas this spring, we go to Tuckahoe Lake to try and trout fish. It was a little chilly and we are sitting on the bank and I'm telling him stories. Well the bank collapses under us and there we go into the lake, it was freezing. Lucas is screaming, he was scared and cold, my cell phone ruined. So up the hill we go, I had a dry sweatshirt in the car and wrap him up, head back and get the chairs, rods, and everything. Get back to the car and Lucas says where is my trout, back over the bank, fall down, retrieve the fish and head home, it was cold the wind blowing like crazy and my lips were blue.

Went to Anthony to trout fish, first cast hang up across the creek, nothing to do but wade across and get it, except the water is way to deep for that. So I head up the creek wade across at the rapids, fall, lose my sandals, stumble my way back down to retrieve my lure, I'm wet, shoeless and defeated, fall again in the mud. Did I mention that I was in full sight of a campsite, and by now the campers have all turned their chairs around and are watching the bare footed idiot!!! A few minutes after retrieving my lure, I look and low and behold there are my sandals floating in the creek. I come up with the bright idea of hook my shoes using a lure. So I get all ready, people still watching, and make the first cast at my shoes, unfortunately on the back swing I tangle my lure in a tree branch!! The campers are by now holding their stomachs and wiping the tears from their eyes!! Long story short I finally get my shoes back and leave as quickly as possible.

Finally, I decide to take my little brother out fishing at Smith Mountain Lake. We were running full throttle at about 60mph down the lake, and then the engine sputters and dies. There we were five miles from the launch and a long way from any marina. Try as we did, we couldn't get the boat running! I decide to start heading back on the trolling motor, it would be a long trip but we could make it. Except for one thing, the battery died! No problem I have two in the boat, switch to the other battery, in the dark, and start heading back to the launch, all of a sudden we notice we are going backwards. The trolling motor is going backwards, takes 20 minutes to figure out I hooked the positive side of the battery to the negative on the motor and the motor was turning in reverse, switch the wires and start off again. It is dark now, and what do I do, hit a rock, breaking the motor mount, I catch the trolling motor as it is falling into the water. Now I'm trying to hold the motor, Shawn is trying to keep power to it, and I'm trying to manually steer the motor, and then because of the reversed polarity thing, the battery dies. Three miles from the car, and no help, we are sitting in the dark on the river. Fortunately a good samaritan finally tows us in.

[Diggy]

One of my friends had to go #2 in the woods once, he wiped with leaves....poison ivy

[fowlskies]

My brother and I had taken our 12' rowboat pond hopping for the day and were headed back home. We had thrown the boat in the back of his truck and had not secured though. Well we get miles down the road and I look in the back of the truck and see that theres no boat, I Iook at my brother and say, umm, wheres the boat???, at which this point he looks in his rearview with a blank look.

We re-traced our route and found the boat sitting in the middle of the road. What had happened is we were stopped at a red light on a hill when it turned green and we took off the boat slipped out of the back of the truck and just sat in the middle of the lane we were in. It was pretty funny when we pulled up to it, it looked like the boat was sitting at the red light waiting for it to turn green. It being in a back country little town made it even more fitting and more suprising that it was still sitting there.

[Megastink]

I fished a SPRO Frog on 12# fluoro. I lost it....

[Robert Riley]

I've swam out to get a snagged lure, about 8 feet deep water, warm water luckily enough. On another occasion, i someone lost the rod midcast... It splashed in the water, so i quickly reached over, to grab it, only then to flip the canoe with my tackle box open... So glad they were mostly floaters and a few jigs.