Thread: Lessons learned

If you have an overflow in your livewell that let's water out put a plug in it when running the big motor. Although you have never had water run back up the overflow from outside the boat it will in certain situations. Then your boat will flood...... Experience is the best teacher, lol!!


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Once again don't forget boat plug. I don't have a bilge pump in my boat. To solve problem start motor and get at least some speed going which creates a suction, pulling water from the boat. Sounds crazy, but it works.

Mrs DP and I were exploring islands on Ouachita. After a long leisurly lunch, She asked in an unpleasant tone "Why is my purse in water"? Me being the male of the species asked "Why in the !@#$ do you have a purse out in the lake?"
Then the image of a boat plug went running through my pea brain. Thank God for bilge pumps.
DP

I got too used to fishing with a partner and went by myself one day. When by myself i loosen the rope on the front to allow the boat to float up and then climb out on the trailer and jump in. I would have swore he was in the boat when i unhooked it and launched the boat that day but that 30 yard swim in 50 degree water proved otherwise! last time for that to happen! luckily I was on the bayou and not a big lake and i was the only one fishing. I'd hate for a bunch of folks have to watch me strip down to my boxers and then fight to climb over the side of a 1542

Fishing out of a buddies boat a couple weeks ago, he was backing it in and I grabbed the rope that was on the bow, when he backed in the rope uncoiled and dropped right into the water. Turns out it wasn't tied to the boat. Fortunately some duck hunters were coming in right then and helped get the boat.

As Conwayslabber said, plugs are really important. His trick works, but only in a small boat. You get a big 19' like mine, and that don't work! And the dang idjits put the plugs on the OUTSIDE of big boat!

Other very common activities are (some of you probably saw this one last year at an unnamed launch ramp, by me) to back the boat into the water and leave ONLY the back straps on. The ones that go from the handles on the transom down to the trailer. With the front undone, in a wind, the boat TRIES to leave you! But it can't. And you can NOT undo those while lying on your belly in back of boat, too much tension. You have to cut them. (I have one extra out of a set of two for sale cheap).

Originally Posted by Buckrub

As Conwayslabber said, plugs are really important. His trick works, but only in a small boat. You get a big 19' like mine, and that don't work! And the dang idjits put the plugs on the OUTSIDE of big boat!

Other very common activities are (some of you probably saw this one last year at an unnamed launch ramp, by me) to back the boat into the water and leave ONLY the back straps on. The ones that go from the handles on the transom down to the trailer. With the front undone, in a wind, the boat TRIES to leave you! But it can't. And you can NOT undo those while lying on your belly in back of boat, too much tension. You have to cut them. (I have one extra out of a set of two for sale cheap).

did that last year, but an easier fix is to pull the boat out of the water, and then remove the straps.

Well, one might thank so, LM. One really might.

But when the boat is sideways on the trailer due to wind, and the front is back in the water pretty deep, and the boat is a 19' big ole boat, you can't muscle the front end back to the proper location on the trailer so you can tie it down and do that. Yeah, you'd THINK that would be possible wouldn't you?

Oh, and there were 3 people sitting in their trucks steaming waiting on some old goat to get his idiot self out of the way, too.............