Thread: Lessons learned

I've done em all as well, but the best I've done was when I was a young whippersnapper and had a stump jumper that I hauled around in the back of my truck. Went fishing and when I got back to ramp I didn't know where my truck was. Reason I didn't know was b/c I had never parked it. I had left it on the ramp and still running according to the nice gentleman that parked it for me !!!

Headed off for horseshoe lake one morning, bout hour and half away, get half way there and a guy driving down the highway is honkin at me. He is pointing and I have no clue what the heck is wrong. Pull in at a store, boat keys were cruising right along right nicely there on the bumper where I laid them, since I have the hitch key on there to.

When you use a fish basket and hang over the side of the boat during a fishing stop, remember to bring it aboard before dropping the hammer on the 150HP. The basket is no longer with us, nor are the fish.

About 15 years ago me and a buddy borrowed my dads fisher marine...had a 20 HP. he dropped me in the water and by the time he parked the truck I was halfway across the lake with a boat half full of water jumping around trying to figure out what to do. thank god the plug was at least in the boat, and thankfully I had been with my dad when that happened before and knew to run it wide open and let the water run out.

Me and a friend took our daughters to glenn springs lake about 3 years ago and wanted to rent a pontoon. It was to early in the year and they werent renting them yet. Kids were having a fit so we rented a jon boat. We ended up having 3 girls (8, 8 and 7) and us 2 in the rental boat. Not good even on a calm day. Wind was gusting some 40+ that day and we had a heck of a time. Decided to cross the lake to get out of the wind and we were going with the direction of the wind and about 50' from a tall dead tree the engine decided it had enough. I just screamed hang on, we nailed the tree, all 3 girls landed in the floor, and about a 15' piece of the top of that dead tree slapped the water. Everyone within a 100 yards was looking. Very lucky it didnt come at us. After all the action we realize we are stuck. Wind blew us on a log. We shift, rock, cuss, push, you name it, for 15 minutes and could not get off this thing. Kids a crying scared, the wind is now spinning our boat like a pinwheel. Luckily someone came over and helped us out. Trip over. The kids still talk about that day, I try not to Been fishing all my life but I sure felt like I had no clue that day