Quote Originally Posted by LazyJ View Post
Running trotlines on the river with a buddy I let one of those giant channel markers sneak up on me. When I jerked the tiller hard right the motor came off the transom and I was holding a Merc 20 by the handle running wide open over my head. While saying goodbye to my motor before tossing it into the water we slammed into the channel buoy and the motor fell into the boat turning it into shrapnel. After an hour swim for our lives in a flow rate we shouldn't have had a boat in, we spent another hour picking aluminum out of our faces, arms, and legs. 20 years later and I still have the nightmares.
OMG! That must be the best story yet.