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| Ok PROs....the season is over, you've already cleaned out the boat and are getting ready for the show season....
So tell us your best tales of the unusual, or tales of woe, or just hilarious stories of stuff that happened on the boat!!! Bring it on.....
Slamr |
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| Trashed my transmission...does that count.[:bigsmile:] |
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| My worst day on the water this year involved me losing three fish (all in the mid-forties or bigger!) in one day. I still managed to boat two (biggest was 41") but should have had the day of a lifetime. Worse yet I wad filming for our TV show, and it was all captured on film! [:((]
The largest of these lost fish was pushing 50" and she was very heavy.
Why did they get off? I am still staying awake at night thinking about it! I sharpen my hooks religiously and always ppound the hooks home. All three fish used a violent boatside roll to get away, indicating they were either "nippers" (I was using hair) or simply were poorly hooked for whatever reason. The two fish I caught were hooked great. Go figure. While exciting, I never want a day like that again as long as I live. I was absolutely crushed after losing that big one at the end of the day! Three strikes and your out!!
Tom Dietz
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| Jason,
Not only did I trash my Transmision,snapped pinon gear in rear differential,blew powerhead on the 225 hp Merc.,lost the seals in the bottom end of the 225 Merc,broke relay on the Panther 35 lift,I lost the Opening week of Musky season,and four prime days in November.Then Client's lost big fish over 50 inches,three days in a row!
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| Frustration? How about loosing 3 muskies over 50"? One of the times came when I was guiding a minister and his son. The pig ripped loose at boatside and while I'm not a big swearer, all I could do was stand there looking at the lure.
The minister finally eased over to me and said "It's ok to swear, God would understand"....
I had a guy and his wife fish with me for a 2 day trip. In those 2 days, he and his wife lost SEVENTEEN MUSKIES!!! A couple of those were in the upper 40" class too!
I had a client in November that had a muskie get off. We never did see the fish, but it folded an 8" rod (built on a saltwater blank) like it was an ultralight.
The frustration factor was high on the day that I guided a client and his son. We were dragging suckers and casting as we drifted. On the close rod, we had two decent sized muskies follow the sucker for over 20 minutes. They'd drift along behind the sucker, then come screaming in, only to veer away and resume following. Then, they started something that really confused me. They'd ease up to the sucker and rub the side of their body, from gillplate to tail on the sucker, turn around and do it again! What's up with that? Does anyone know? I had that happen twice this past year, once on a clear water lake, the other time on a stained flowage.
It was a good year for numbers, 144 muskies boated, but everytime that we got hooks into a good sized fish, it would get off. THAT was frustrating in itself. |
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| Here is a little disaster and frustration. It is October and freezing cold outside. I was way too excited because I had just driven up to Vilas County for a weekend with some high school buddies. I was so excited that at the last minute, I decided to go up a day early by myself. I couldn't wait to get my boat on the water. I backed the boat down in, got into it and proceeded to try and back it off of the trailer. Wouldn't budge. Then I noticed that the last time I loaded the boat, I got the front eye that is under the bow of the boat above the rubber stop on the trailer. So I tried pulling the boat out of the water and heave-hoeing the front of boat up and over the rubber bumper (yah right). Then I decided that if I put my back tailgate down on the truck and backed my boat in, I might be able to push it up and over. So I got the boat backed down into the water, crawled onto my tailgate and proceeded to try and legpress the boat over the front bumper. After the fourth try, I got ticked off and really gave her the heave-ho. Up and over she came. What a relief, that is until I noticed that I had completely unhooked it and it was heading out into the lake. In a split second, I was running down my trailer into the water and jumping on to the front of my boat. I hung on for dear life hoping I could pull myself up. That wasn't happening. Somehow, I was able to hook my foot onto my trailer just enough to get some leverage and stop the momentum. By the time I was done, I was chest high into 30 degree water dressed like an eskimo. Not good. That wasn't going to put a damper on my trip though. Good thing I was the only one at the launch. I stripped down, put on some dry clothes, drained out my boots and got after 'em.
It would have been hilarious had someone else been there to see it............... |
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| This was definitely "MURPHY'S YEAR", start out on opening day loosing my prop on my big motor??????? Now I have 2. Placed my sons rod on top truck when covering boat, lost but was returned! Sister boyfriend watched landing bounce out of boat, first and last time for him in my boat hopefully. Lost my keys end of fall and sure enough the place I put the spare, I could not remember. My wife was ready for me to stop fishing, the repairs were getting to spendy every weekend
Good luck
Troyz
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