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| I was fishing with my buddy and I hooked a musky on a figure 8, when his chocolate lab decided she wanted to take part in the action. I had to maneuver the fish around the dog to make sure she didn't get hooked and we got the fish in the net. We normally don't pick the net up with the fish in it, but the situation called for it. After a little chaos, we got the fish unhooked, the dog back in the boat and a couple of pictures later she was swimming away strong.
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| I just got a new lab puppy last fall. Started bringer her now since muskie season started and I have learned I cant throw topwaters anymore with her in the boat at least she jumps everytime the prop starts spinning |
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| ugh, pulled my chocolate out of the lake with the net in my other hand on saturday. we hooked a fish trolling and both jumped up when the clicker went off and dog thought it was playtime. also has a habit of going for a swim in the dark when we're trying to unhook a fish in the net. guess he's like my wife, when he's had enough he's had enough.
have cut a few hooks out of both my labs in the last year. one was a spinnerbait hook we had to push through in order to cut it off. another time they both got hooked together, near disaster. going after sticks in the river while we're anchored and not being able to get upcurrent back to the boat is another one they enjoy. going after other dogs and deer on shore, sticks in the water, and soaking the interior of my boat all the time defintiely costs me a few casts while i'm on the water, but i wouldn't ever want to fish without them!
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| I saw a Bucher episode where his lab jumped in after the fish. It was pretty funny, but you could tell he was thinking OH #*#*!!! At least you had someone else to net the fish, he just had a lousy cameraman. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Dog experiences in the boat...,.hmm last July I went out just me and my yellow lab. I have a 620 fisherman so launching. It by yourself is a bit of a hassle, but doable. So I get the boat ready toss my stuff (cell phone, wallet, refreshments etc) For the day on the front deck and proceed to back the boat in. Boats off the trailer and trucks parked. I jump in dog jumps in. I back away from the dock and put the boat bumpers in the front storage hatch. For some reason I can't get the hatch to close so instead of looking to see if theres a problem I push harder and slam it trying to get it closed. At that moment I notice my 3 day old $500 android smart phone doing its best to keep the hatch from closing....screen smashed, its shot! $500 down the drain.
So i brush it off and we head out. Get to the first spot. I pull out my favorite 9'6'' Thorne bros custom built predator and clip on a double ten. About the 3rd cast I lay into it and the last 18" of my baby snap off as the bucktail sa.ils out into thep
lake....you've got to be kidding me!!!!!! Now I'm not real happy, another $500+ down the drain!
So I brush this one off and grab my 8'6" loomis for another spot. I clip on a top raider and proceed to fire it over a promising weed bed. As I bring it to the boat and menuever I to the first turn of the 8 my precious 120# lab decides to bail out of the boat and try to.catch the #*^@ bait!!! Perfect! Not wanting him to get Hooked I jerk the bait out of the water and toss the rod. Here's the funny part, the dog, a lab, supposedly a water dog, goes ballistic, freaks out and has some sort of canine mental break down. He could swim! But instead He just flopped around like an idiot clawing at the side of my glass boat. He swings around to the back of the boat and manages to hook his from paw around the strap for my kicker, all the while my Minn kota is driving us in circles infront of what appeared to be a nice graduation party at a nearby house. Now I'm wondering how I'm gonna get this wet 120# freaked out dog back in the boat. Tried the collar, got him about half way in and it slips off and back in he goes. So now he's Going nuts, I'm frustrated and adrenaline room over. I grabbed him by the back of the neck and heaved his big heavy a$$ in. He then proceeds to run the the bow stepping on and snapping.g my loomis! That's it I've had enough!!!!! We went home after 10 casts down about $1300........dogs, mans best friend.
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Location: Kodiak, AK | My boy will only go in with permission, and that's been a good thing, and he knows he can only go off the stern. He gets excited when a fish is on, but he knows to not jump in and he never has. The only thing I can't train out of him is getting in the way. He does need a "nudge" every so often so I can get up to the gunwhale to net the fish. Also very fortunate that we've not had any hook run-ins yet. For whatever reason, he really doesn't like muskie baits and tends to shy away from them. Regardless, I do run a very clean boat, so there's not baits all over the floor, so that helps. Once they're in the net, he won't take his eyes off the fish, and then during pics, he likes to get some fish slime....
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Only a LAB! In my younger days I had many a lab, one real good one though. She was as sharp as a tack and figured out what the game was no matter what I was doing. She would pick up wrenchs and put them by the toolbox if I laid them down. She could get me a beer, or newspaper etc...She was a great hunter. One crawl up on a flock of geese I turned around to find her actually crawling behind me!! SO now to the fish story...I was testing a new bait for a company a soft plastic swimming lure that now is termed "swimbait". I had a fish coming in low and slow on Wabedo Lake. it was big and was getting more interested and closing the gap when my lap took a dive at her. Only the dog was seen again! |
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| bdog - 6/15/2011 12:50 PM
Dog experiences in the boat...,.hmm last July I went out just me and my yellow lab. I have a 620 fisherman so launching. It by yourself is a bit of a hassle, but doable. So I get the boat ready toss my stuff (cell phone, wallet, refreshments etc) For the day on the front deck and proceed to back the boat in. Boats off the trailer and trucks parked. I jump in dog jumps in. I back away from the dock and put the boat bumpers in the front storage hatch. For some reason I can't get the hatch to close so instead of looking to see if theres a problem I push harder and slam it trying to get it closed. At that moment I notice my 3 day old $500 android smart phone doing its best to keep the hatch from closing....screen smashed, its shot! $500 down the drain.
So i brush it off and we head out. Get to the first spot. I pull out my favorite 9'6'' Thorne bros custom built predator and clip on a double ten. About the 3rd cast I lay into it and the last 18" of my baby snap off as the bucktail sa.ils out into thep
lake....you've got to be kidding me!!!!!! Now I'm not real happy, another $500+ down the drain!
So I brush this one off and grab my 8'6" loomis for another spot. I clip on a top raider and proceed to fire it over a promising weed bed. As I bring it to the boat and menuever I to the first turn of the 8 my precious 120# lab decides to bail out of the boat and try to.catch the #*^@ bait!!! Perfect! Not wanting him to get Hooked I jerk the bait out of the water and toss the rod. Here's the funny part, the dog, a lab, supposedly a water dog, goes ballistic, freaks out and has some sort of canine mental break down. He could swim! But instead He just flopped around like an idiot clawing at the side of my glass boat. He swings around to the back of the boat and manages to hook his from paw around the strap for my kicker, all the while my Minn kota is driving us in circles infront of what appeared to be a nice graduation party at a nearby house. Now I'm wondering how I'm gonna get this wet 120# freaked out dog back in the boat. Tried the collar, got him about half way in and it slips off and back in he goes. So now he's Going nuts, I'm frustrated and adrenaline room over. I grabbed him by the back of the neck and heaved his big heavy a$$ in. He then proceeds to run the the bow stepping on and snapping.g my loomis! That's it I've had enough!!!!! We went home after 10 casts down about $1300........dogs, mans best friend.
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, that post made me laugh.
Dang I'd be peeed as I drove away for the day once the boat made it on the trailer. |
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| We adopted a new dog 2 years ago in February....he was a 4 year old black lab that can swim with the best of them. That following June I got a boat and thought I'd take the dog with one night to test out the new rig and throw a few bass lures on a lake close to home. You've all seen those dock jumper dogs on TV right? Okay....first cast my little buzz bait goes sailing up to the weedline at the same time I feel the boat totally rock to one side as the dog is going full throttle over the bow of the boat towards my bait. I scream the bait in so he does not grab it, pull his 80 lb butt back in the boat and laugh and think maybe it was "first time in the boat jitters" for him.....second cast, same thing...okay then, so you're a lab I get it! I was done casting for the night so we went for a boat ride.
Later that fall the wife was gone and I was going muskie fishing...not wanting to leave him at home all day I brought his fold down kennel with and put him in the back of the boat in the kennel thinking he could just chill for the day while I fished. WRONG. He went out of his freckin' mind in that kennel trying to get out so he could jump over the side of the boat and retrieve my bait. He got to spend the afternoon/evening under the topper in my truck after that because he was scaring every fish in the lake.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Ha ha no problem. I can laugh at it now ... |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Ha ha no problem. I can laugh at it now ... |
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Location: The desert | Sounds like some dogs need some training. |
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| Pointerpride102 - 6/15/2011 5:05 PM
Sounds like some dogs need some training.
I think its cuz they were labs. Seemed to be trend. LOL
GSP's rule. Sorry guys, couldnt resist.
I will never forget the time my dad's Shorthair pup fell in the lake. Fell, not jumped. He would walk around the ledge of the boat while we fished. My dad said "you're gonna fall in". Yup, big dang splash and all we saw were bubbles. He had never been swimming before and was under for what seemed like minutes.
Getting a frantic dog into the boat isnt an easy task as they are flailing about. |
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| 6 month old golder retriever is sitting on the front bench looking at whatever and I'm looking at him as I feel a strike on the bucktail that I'm bring in fast at the water surface back behind me. I set the hook real hard and suddenly a 12" bass is sailing right at me. I dodge the fish but it hits the dog in the side of the head, WHAM!. The dog half jumps and is half knocked out of the boat. No harm, no foul.
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Another dog story, a sorta bad one. My buddy's wife is cleaning the barn and their Rotwiler is running around. She sets my buddy's big old styrophone cooler, the one with long stick baits hanging all around the inside and outside of the cooler, in the yard. The dog sticks his head deep into the cooler and comes up with 10 or so musky baits hanging on its face and head. Then the dog tries to shake the lures off. 3-4 hours later the voluteer fire department guys that responded finish pulling/cutting the last of the hooks out of the dog. |
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | bdog,
That's a true horror story.
You have my sympathies. |
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| Our old black lab went out once or twice on a bomb with the jackpot. He didn't really need much training after he couldn't get back in the boat. PointerPride called the cross back hybrid a grass pickerel and he probably has a 4 year degree  Don't let him get you down! |
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Location: Detroit River | I don't have issues with my dog (English Pointer) because I leave him home when I go fishing. I never understood what the fascination is with taking your dog along on a fishing trip. If you're duck/goose hunting or taking a cruise around the lake sure but not fishing.
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Location: The desert | GetLunged - 6/16/2011 11:43 AM
Our old black lab went out once or twice on a bomb with the jackpot. He didn't really need much training after he couldn't get back in the boat. PointerPride called the cross back hybrid a grass pickerel and he probably has a 4 year degree Don't let him get you down!
Working on my Masters in Fisheries Biology. I'll be sure to enroll in the grass pickerel and extremely rare pike patterns course this fall. Your post is also incorrect, it is not a cross back hybrid as noted by the Wisconsin DNR guy. If you are going to slam me for being incorrect, at least get the facts straight in your post. I incorrectly identified a fairly uncommon pike pattern, I don't believe this to be the end of fisheries science as we know it. Also, where was I holding anyone down? Properly trained dogs do as they are told. My 4 month old black lab knows not to jump out of the boat, but I also spend several hours each week training her.
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Location: Uxbridge Ontario | I have 2 y/o yellow lab, but I do not take him muskie fishing. Too many big hooks and no rod locker makes me pay more attention to him than fishing. He is really good in the boat and comes bass fishing all the time.
But I have a story about that. He is over excitable when fish are in the boat. He just wants at them. He is good 99% of the time but likes to chill out on the casting deck with me. One day, throwing a flipping jig onto a rock pile point for smallies, West (my lab) decides he wants to launch out of the boat. I dont know if he just wanted to go for a swim, maybe really needed to pee or something. But just launches... runs full stride from the back of the boat out of over the nose. WTF??? Getting the dog back in was the tricky part. Other than the fact he is about 95lbs, when I went to scoop him out of the water, I got him 3/4 of the way back in the boat and he starts kicking. I loose my balance and go to place my hand on the gunwale. I missed or my hand slips on the rail, and with my weight plus his, I eat the gunwale on the inner ride side of my rib cage and go ass over tee kettle into the lake. Let me tell you, it makes it about 100X harder to pull a soaked 95lb dog back into the boat with 2 fractured ribs.
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