Thread: Cold Water Safety

Last Monday, I bundled Jacob up for some early morning slab busting in the pool. We put 6 keepers in the boat quickly as the sun was peaking over the horizon. Air temp was just above freezing. Jacob is five going on 18 and listens as well as his daddy. After about the 5th warning that he needed to quit leaning out of the boat, he took an early morning Lake Conway bath. I yanked him out of the water right away and rush him back to the truck to dry off and warm up. Needless to say our fishing day was over. Jacob had his life jacket on like he was supposed to. This is just a reminder that we should all consider wearing our life jackets when it is this cold out. It doesn't take long before hypothermia kicks in. If is also a good idea to have a set of warm dry clothes in the truck for situations like this. Jacob acted like nothing happened at all but his momma about killed the both of us and put an end to his winter fishing this year.