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That would be embarrassing all right. But; If I had an eight pound bass I would strip butt naked and dance a jig for the tv. Johnnie

Ok that story was great!! All have been so far.

My first boat was a little two man Water Spider with an electric trolling motor and a 2.5 horse Mariner motor on it. It was a site to see me fishing just about every lake in North Texas with this little boat. Matter fact I probably fished more back then out that little boat than I get to now out of my big boat

Anyway to the story. I was on the Famous Lake Fork fishing and hoping to catch a big Share a Lunker bass. It was early spring and I had just read an article on fishing jerk baits. So I go buy some Smithwick Rouges and hit the lake. The first fish I catch that day was about 15inches long I fight the fish to the boat and go to swing it up to me to unhook it and the fish goes nuts. Now mind you that the fish is hooked on the middle set of trebles. The fish jerks out of my hand and falls in my lap with hooks being slung every were. The back set hooks into my right leg and the front hooks grab my right leg and the fish is hanging in the middle thrashing around. Now I'm in pain and embarrassed hoping the middle hook doesn't end up "you know were."

I finally get the fish unhooked and start working on myself. I take a pair of pliers and start yanking on hooks. I guess it didn't look very well because a man came down on his dock and asked me "what the heck was I doing?" When I turned around to face the man he saw were the hooks were and just died laughing. He said it embarrassed his wife so bad she had to go in the house. Then it hit me how it must have looked with my back to them. I got the hooks out and went home and to this day have never gone back to that cove. I'm sure that story was told over and over by that guy to many of his fishing buddies.

Good one Conley! I bet it didn't look to good from behind. Man, we can get ourselves into some real messes huh??

Great chuckles guys.

A couple of additions to the Hall Of Shame from this old Okie.

Some years back my partner and I were fishing Tenkiller, about mid June or so. We had a 15 point deficit to make up in two tournaments to make the Championship that year.
The water was very high, about 8 or ten feet if I remember right, the bass had moved behind the shoreline trees, you had to force your way into the timber at the very back end of every cove to make a consistent bag at weigh-in. We had worked our way to the end of a clump of willows, we were concentrating on our presentations so intently we didn’t notice what was hanging from the eve of the boat dock a few feet away........

A wasp’s nest, a biiiiiiiig wasp's nest. Those red wasps we have around here, not as bad as say, yellowjackets, but bad enough.

As we got close to it I noticed a few of them flit by, but didn’t pay much attention.

Until I grabbed a limb to pull us out, shaking it pretty good, and whacking the crap out of that wasp nest.

We noticed the wasp nest then, hoh boy did we notice!

Ol’ Slick looked at me, I looked at him, and we proceeded to run to the back of the boat. Over the back deck, cleared the motor with a single bound and into the water we went.

We didn’t get stung, thank God, but someone caught it all on film, which they sent to our club.

Which was shown during the Championship presentation dinner.

Several times.

(We didn't make the Chamionship Tournament, went to the dinner to rawhide those guys who did.)


A few years back someone I’ve known for a long time called me up and asked me to help him get some video shots for stock footage.

I had some solid patterns going on, no monster fish, but a lot of nice two to fours.

The shoot was going well, we were catching fish fairly consistently. He asked me a question about the lake, I talked for a couple of minutes (camera was running), all the while my bait was laying stone still at the base of a good sized root ball in a couple feet of water. While I was talking a fish picked it up, without thinking I set the hook, hard.

And missed.

Now, two people on the front deck of a good sized bass boat is not bad, but you add a cameraman...........

Who shot my rather inelegant backflip into four feet of water.

Who sent it to me on tape a few weeks later.

All of it, from the thunderous splash, to me rising from the waters, covered in black mud, the audio bleeping constantly.

What’s worse, just about every member of my wife’s family was sitting about forty yards away in a pontoon boat. Laughing so hard they were crying. To this day, quite a few years later, I still haven’t heard the last of it.

Hopefully :rolleyes: someday our memories will falter with age, then we can forget all these embarrassing happenings. For now, we simply live with it-isn't it great?
Thanks all this has been a fun post to help pass the long cold winters here in Iowa!!

There are some really funny stories here. Thanks everyone for sharing. What is it about falling out of the boat that is soooo funny? I have fallen out twice... well actually, I fell out once and was launched out the other time. Both stories have been told over and over again, and always seem to make people laugh.

Thanks again everyone for sharing!

Quote:What is it about falling out of the boat that is soooo funny?

Who knows why it's funny, most of the time.

I do know this, there are two kinds of well aged fishermen who answer the question "Have you fallen out of a boat?"

Those who admit it, and those who lie about it.

(The same could be said about replies to the question, "Have you ever left the drainplug out when you put your boat in the water?")

Richard.

I've never fallen out of a boat or left my drain plug out. Now am I a double liar?? I have fallen down inside the boat on several occassions, once even cracking my knee cap on a stupid pedestal seat floor mount, hurt like the dickens, only broke one rod though, the one in my hand when I tripped over my thermos.

I did forget my drain plug twice, that'll never happen again. Pretty embaressing with other guys waiting to launch, but I've never fallen out of a boat. One of the main reasons people fall out of boats, and main source of drowning, is peeing over the side, that's why I always have a coffee can on board. carl

Carl, is that a 3 gallon coffe can-I drink a lot of coffee.