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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Here is mine:
The season before last, We were on Fishtrap, near Winter, WI, on our spring 4 day trip. Lori brought her 9" Grandma in, full of weeds. She tried to shake them off at boatside. The next thing I heard was "Cleo! No!"
I look over, and Cleo has the bait stuck in her yap, and to her front leg, trying to get it out of her face.
I said to my son, Justin (6-3, 230#) get on her, NOW!
Justin laid on her. She, as if anyone or anything could get out from under him, was going nowhere.
She had one in the nostril, and out. Bolt cutters. Snip.
She had one through the lip. Snip.
The one stuck in her leg, brutal. next to that pad up from the paw a little, and next to the tendon. I cut the hook away from the treble. the bait is away.
To this point, she has not yelped, whined, jerked, nothing.
I looked at her and said "Cleo, your a good dog. I'm only gonna try this once. If I cant get it, we are going to the vet".
She licked my face. (GOD I HATE THAT! LOL)
I gave the hook a little twist, and it came away from the tendon (she never flinched).
I'm Home free, I'm thinking. Just shove the barb back through and "Snip"!
Cleo would have had another idea, if it were not for the 230# of son on top of her. I never heard her yelp like that before.
out, snip. Looked over at Lori. She's a train wreck. Why did I look at her? That is when I started shaking.
Cleo got 2 beers in her water dish and an asprin diguised in a ball of raw burger that night, while Lori had Vodka, I had whiskey (nothing new to those who know us, lol), and Justin enjoyed his Dr. Pepper.
What are some of your dog stories while fishing? They need not be traumatic. I got a few, but that was the last one to this date. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | And Cleo was a ?????? Poodle? Great Dane? Lab? Spaniel? |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | lab mutt |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I was waiting for Esox Lazer at the boat launch a couple of years ago with my dog on the leash. Eric was walking across the parking lot and I turned my head for two seconds. The last thing I saw was my good pooch (lab) sitting next to me. The leash was around the front butt seat as he gets let off the leash when we leave the launch.
Well Palo decided that he was going to go greet Eric when I wasn't looking. He jumped out of the boat, and just started CRYING. Everyone at the launch was looking at me like I'm a dog beater. I look, and the leash wrapped around his back leg. I jumped out of the boat, picked him up and put him back in the boat. He was limping pretty bad, but we decided to head out for a while and see how he does. Well, we only fished for an hour or so as he was looking pretty bad. Well turns out he pulled the tendons off of his knee. A bunch of money and 2 years of not being able to go full out for a long time. He is finally doing great. No more limping if he runs too hard. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Mine's not so different, Rob. About 1992, I was fishing Deer Lake with my dad and my vizsla, Chaney. I hear from the back of the boat, "Chaney, NO! Oh, ****, he's got it."
Chaney grabbed my dad's giant Hi-Fin crankbait. This was before I carried bolt cutters in the boat; I got some the next day! My dad used his leatherman to cut the hook away from the lure. Then we could see the dog had one hook through the tongue, twice, but the barb was all the way out. Another tine was buried in his cheek.
I held Chaney pinned between my legs with his mouth open; Dad snipped the tongue hook. That one was easy. Then I pushed the one in the cheek all the way through, and we cut that. Chaney was scared, but surprisingly docile for the whole procedure. I think he knew he needed all the help he could get.
After the hooks were out, the dog started shaking and climbed in my lap. I had to hold him for about 20 minutes before he relaxed.
After that incident, Chaney NEVER wanted to be close to a muskie lure. If he saw me sharpening hooks in the living room, he'd high tail it out of there!
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Location: Forest Lake Minnesota | My springer named Muskie liked to stand at the bow of the boat. Five years ago, the friday before Memorial day we were out fishing for walleyes and I had just launched the boat and was motoring to the first spot. I noticed the tiller tension was a bit loose and I was looking back and adjusting it when I made a sterring correction and Muskie got thrown from the boat. I heard a thump and looked and Muskie was gone. She poped up and was whining, I thought she got her bell rung on the bottom of the boat. I went to pick her out of the water and there was alot of blood in the water. When I hauled her in I discovered that her hind leg has hanging by some fur and a bit of meat, she had been hit by the prop. As we were returning to shore she was very calm and stayed right next to me and the bleeding had stopped. It was only 3:00pm so the vet was still open, we got there and all they could do before the holiday weekend was stabilize her and give her some pain medication. I could have taken her to the U of M for emergency service but they said it would be about 5,000.00 to fix her so I waited till tuesday, and she had her surgery at my local vet, they had to put in a few screws and pins to repair her leg, the bill was about 3,700.00 It was an expensive lesson, I don't allow my dog to be on the bow while we are motoring anymore,she is on a leash by me. Muskie was hit by a car last year so she is no longer with us, she was the best dog I ever had.
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| #*^@, all this bad talk about dogs in the boat. I'm starting to re-think putting my dog out there with me this year. I was really looking forward to having her along with me when I was fishing alone, which I do quite often. Now I don't know what to do. Come on guys, let me see some good stories!!!!
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| A few years ago I was fishing a lake in MN with my mom and the dog. Terrible day, the motor wasn't working but we had driven a ways out so we rowed to a spot and started fishing (panfish).
After a while the dog starts whinning, we figure she just wants to swim or whatever. Later on while she's standing on the bench next to my mom I hear my mom say something like "what's that?" and I look and the dog is peeing on the bench and my mom.
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Location: Nebraska | Not really a "dog in the boat" story, but close. This just happened in Omaha NE.
Man saves dog with CPR
BY KRISTIN ZAGURSKI
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Doggy paddling couldn't keep Lucy the dog from nearly drowning in the icy lake.
Randy Gurchin and his dog Lucy by the lake in their backyard. So owner and disabled Air Force veteran Randy Gurchin edged onto the ice at Sarpy County's Hawaiian Village and pulled the pup from the frigid water.
Then he did what he thought he never would - he performed CPR on the 10-month-old English bulldog.
Ducks and geese in the open water had drawn Lucy into the lake on Feb. 28, Gurchin said.
The wintry water paralyzed the puppy, he said. She was unresponsive and had a blue face and paws by the time Gurchin pulled her out.
Gurchin closed Lucy's mouth, put his mouth over her nose and started breathing into her and pushing on her chest.
After about a minute, he said, Lucy began breathing shallowly.
He rushed her to the Ralston Veterinary Clinic.
Doctors there soaked the dog in warm water, gave her several injections and put her in an oxygen tent, Gurchin said.
Gurchin, 51, who flew combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan before retiring from the Air Force with a back injury in May 2005, was sent home to await word on Lucy's fate.
She pulled through and now is "100 percent normal," Gurchin said Friday.
His family - which also includes wife Kelley, and children Kerry, 15, and Ryan, 10 - got Lucy in July, about eight weeks after her birth on Mother's Day 2006.
Although the rear of the family's yard, which faces the lake, isn't fenced, Lucy never had gone into the water before last week, Gurchin said.
When she did, he said the self-aid and buddy care training he received during his 25 years in the Air Force kicked in.
"In this case, she was my buddy," Gurchin said, "and she's the one I applied it to."
Gurchin's family was "obviously, relieved" that he saved Lucy, he said. But his wife told him a few days afterward that it was crazy for him to risk his life.
"I didn't really have much of a response" to that, he said.
As for Gurchin and Lucy, he said they now are "best buddies."
"Once you get a pet, it's truly part of your family," he said. "You just tend to do whatever it takes to save their life."
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| O.K. I have 2 upbeat dog in the boat adventures. Same dog same trip.
We are up on LCO near Hayward 2 years ago with Annie our new Chocolate lab. My wife went into town so I decide to take our new pup out for her first ride on the boat even though the wife said not to. Of course I know better. It's a lab, she will love being out there! So we start off from the dock and she is petrified with fear hiding under my chair. I proceed up around the point and decide to do a little late morning troll for suspendeds. Dog is still under my chair as I set up my rods. The boat is in gear and I am walking around setting up rods when I hear a huge spash. Yep, she jumped in! 300 yards from any type of shoreline her little head pops up and she realizes I am moving away from her and she is in the middle of nowhere and she becomes scared. Those front paws are going as fast as they can until I could clear the one line and get back to her and drag her back in the boat. Immediately she goes back under the seat. Satisfied whith what she had done I guess
Later that week I took her with to do some casting. Keep in mind we are still working on house breaking her at this time. Once again she hides under my chair until we come up on a shoreline that I wanted cast. As I am up on the front deck she is watching me cast. As I throw a couple more casts she decides to venture out and watch a little. 15 minutes goes by and she starts whining which she had not really done since we got her. Next thing I know I hurl a cast towards shore and she takes off into the water. I quick stop realing thinking she is after my lure like this is fetch. I am calling her back and she doesn't stop for anything. She passes up where my lure had landed and continues on to shore. She promptly squats and starts to pee! As she is doing this I am using the trolling motor to move towards shore. As soon as she is done she walks back in the water right back towards the boat. I picked her up and we were back on our way. I was simply amazed! She is still by far the most intelligent dog I have ever seen to this day. Later, Tom |
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Location: Verona, WI | Nothing nearly as bad as everyone else's stories but I'll go. I have a golden retriever named Touchdown that I take with me in the boat all of the time. I am casting away and I have a hot follow and I go right into my figure eight. My dog sees the action and runs immediately to the bow. In her excitement she steps on the trolling motor foot control and the fish takes off. I lose my balance and drop my rod in to the lake. I was able to fish the rod out so it wasn't a total loss.
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Location: Racine, Wi | Dawg, That's the only bad thing that's happened with my pup in the boat so far. Keep the baits put away and you'll be fine. Mines up in the front with me now when I go out watching all the action. The coolest thing is, he always sniffs and checks out the muskies that come in the boat, but won't even give the time of day to a bass or pike. LOL Good dog.
Plus, you get some cool pictures of them in the boat. I have a couple of early morning shots that sum it up well. When I get home, if I remember, I'll post a couple of the dog "pointing out the muskies" on the way to our spot. |
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| I ran into a guy in MN getting of the water and noticed his dog was wearing a M&G spinner bait through it's nostril. Dog didn't seem too happy the guy didn't seem tocare too much. |
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| I'm reminded of a day last fall fishing with Brad Nelson -- I get a fish on a figure 8, Brad goes in the water, stuff goes in the water, Brad gets back in the boat, it's complete chaos....
The whole time, Summer is standing there, looking back and forth between Brad and I, completely uninterested in the fish, the noise, the fact that Brad fell out of the boat. She just sat there lookin'! |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Summer is about the best boat dog/ most mellow I have seen...she is in heaven on the water lounging..but when she was young she learned real fast not to come up on the front deck...we were out catfishing in my Lund with all my baits hanging around the front carpet..in the chaos of a double header we lost track of her on the front deck..stuck her paw on a bait, then tried to pull away, bait was still stuck in the carpet..so needless to say she yelped...luckily the barb went thru her pad on her paw, we snipped it and she has barely set foot on the front deck since...she knows she belongs in the back...get them in the boat early on, and make sure they know where they can and can't go...i'd suggest keeping them off the front deck...keep baits put away...this is Summers usual "spot"....
she's a pure bred british golden retriever and if anyone is looking ..they are great musky dogs!
http://www.goldencreekkennels.com/ambrit.aspx
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | This is awesome!I got a chuckle out of almost all! keep them coming! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I have been luck so far with the 6 years of fishing with my dog. Sandy has been fishing with me more times than most experianced anglers will get out in a life time. She is well behaved and knows the rules. Two years ago she came up to me with a Slippery Slider in her bottom lip. She just looked at me and sat down. I quickly grabbed her and stablized her so she wouldn't move as I forced the hook completely through her lower lip. Once I got the tip and barb of the hook cut I backed it out and cleaned her lip. I praised her for staying calm and I looked at my boat partner and said "that went way to easy".
After looking around to see how it got in her bottom lip I realized some lured got to close to her spot. She likes to keep in two differant spots. I always keep the travel routs to and from these spots clean. She must have layed down and her snout rested on the hooks of the bait. that is why it only went in just past the barb.
Knowing your dogs habbets is huge in the boat. My dog is a very mellow yellow lab. She is always with me when I am fishing. Lots of my clients ask me to bring her and I will. She is just that good in the boat. Of course it helps to have a huge Ranger 620 with lots of room. When trolling she stayes in the front. All I have to say is "back" and she will get away from the action.
Here ia a few pics of my lab. She is also all over my web site in pictures.
One of the pictures she is at a rod that was sounding off drag. She knows the sound and what is going to happen. One other is an old picture where she jumped inafter a muskies Mark Sankey caught with me.
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Location: Racine, Wi | Here's the picture of Palo the wonder lab pointing out the next spot. Or was it a duck? I forget.
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| My dog didn't get it nearly as bad as a few of these stories, I don't know what I would do if my dog got it in the mouth. I got two stories.
First one is short, my soon to be in-law's have a cabin up on Boom Lake and when the whole family is together there is about 6-7 dogs running around (thats including neighbor dogs). The in-laws know I'm a huge musky fisherman and if I'm not casting off their dock they literally take offense that I don't consider it a great spot. So when there are no dogs around, I go cast a topraider off their dock and sure enough one of the dogs heard the splash, came running down from the house and jumped in the water. Sure enough she gets the bait right in her mouth and swims to shore. My only option is to freespool, so thats what I did. She ran around as many trees as she could find and almost ran me out of 100yds of line before she dropped it, talk about a mess. I had to jump in the water to weave back around a few logs but at least no damage was done besides some frayed line.
Second story is my dog (a small irish setter) who fished with me all through high school and college summers. Typically she will just lie down on a life jacket unless there is fireworks, then she's between your legs on a small casting deck. I usually have a total of 3 rods rigged up at any given time with the lures hooks attached to the reel handle. For her safety I keep them between the tackle box and the side of the boat so she can't walk near them. Once while fishing by myself on a really windy day (>20mph) on a small lake in vilas county, I still don't know how it happened, she got a hook in her. All I heard was a yelp and then she did a full circle around the boat with the rod right on her tail. After pinning her down I couldn't even tell where the hook is since it was in her front leg, and if you know irish setters, they have a lot of hair on their legs. Luckily she only had one treble in her leg but it was embedded deep and I cut it way to close so I couldn't attempt to push it through, but that might have been a good thing. So then I decide that it would be a good idea to call it a day since she wouldn't stop whimpering and shaking. When I get back to the boat landing she jumps out on the dock and continues to chase a squirrel... so I think she was ok.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I love these stories. keep them coming.
Here are two more:
Fancy was a chocolate. Timmy (who is no longer my friend, but not because of this story, or my other one), said "holy crud! Fancy is hooked to your manta! with one shake of her back leg, the manta went overboard. all I could do was watch it sink. lol.
Jake was a springer. Whenever I had a follow, Timmy (still not the reason he is no longer my friend) would throw his empty Mtn Dew bottle over the side, because he knew Jake would bone my chances by jumping in after the bottle and fetch. Jake got sunburned that day, cuz I shaved him a week before.
I like every dog I ever met, better than Timmy (not a member or veiwer of this board).
Here are two pics of Cleo from the Presque isle outing.
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| Hmmm...several years ago an outdoor writer who 'wanted to do an article' about me asked if he could 'bring a friend.' Sure, I said...
Then just aday or two before the trip he called to say his 'friend' couldn't come, he was going to bring his young Lab instead...I expressed a little concern because of the nature of the sport, but was 'pooh-poohed' because "the dog has spent more time in boats than on dry land...NEVER been a problem..."
Okay, I like dogs. Still expressed my concern.
Showed up at the ramp as planned.
Loaded dog and outdoor writer into boat, ran 3 miles down the lake.
Pulled into first shoreline to cast, writer (who uses Minnkota motors on his own boat) puts my Autopilot into the water.
I move the boat about 5 yards, go to turn the motor, but it won't work...
Look on front deck to see Lab biting through cable.
(And had just replaced it and the main pedal control board 2 days before...)
"NO PROBLEM" says the writer...I can fix that. (Wires are color-coded, right??)
He tries to patch...proclaims it's "Right and ready...give it a try"
Smoke curls from under motor head...fried THAT motherboard
Took to local Minnkota repair center. They quote regular price for replacement, plus labor.
Writer balks at my viewpoint that he is responsible for the damages.
He says "I will get it fixed, I have friends at the factory."
Nearly 2 weeks later I do get the parts...no labor charge included.
Since then, I have a new rule.
No writers with dogs. I'll take one or the other, but can't (and won't) watch both.
Al Nutty
Kinkaid Lake Guide Service
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Location: Hayward, WI | First time out Musky fishing with Otter, the 90lb yellow lab, I had a leash around one of the rear seat posts to keep him in the back of the boat, while I fished up front. Everything was going good for the morning until I switched to a top-water. First cast and he goes and tries to jump in the lake to fetch my lure. Problem was the leash was just long enough to try and hang him from the boat. I am not sure who was more scared him or me. I do not think normally I could grab him by the scruff of his neck and pick him up into the boat with one hand.
Later that fall I had a monster on a sucker. It came unpinned right next to the boat as I was trying to figure out how to net it. I was ready to have a break down when Otter comes up front, sits next to me and licks my hand, and gives me the big dumb lab look. How could I be mad then. I took the rest of the day off from fishing and took him bird hunting instead.
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Been hooked to my yellow lab, Mande (mandy) via a 6 inch Jake. That happened in the shop while i was sorting baits. Too long of a story to type right now but suffice to say it tought me a good lesson. I keep a very clean boat regardless of whether she's with me or not, but it's double-clean when she's along.
She's a wonderful fishing partner, actually very much a best-friend. If I'm going to fish topwater I know I need to leave her home... it drives her nuts, can't say as I blame her.
Here's a photo of us on Mille Lacs and a photo of Mande in "her boat"... No kidding, come the house and if we are in the shop you can ask her to show you her boat she'll walk right past the Ranger over to the Alumacraft that is aptly named, "Lab Cab" jump up and put her paws on the side of it and look at you as if to say, "isn't is nice?".
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My young golder retriever was standing on the front seat, paws on the side of the boat. Me burning a Bucher700 bucktail across weed tops when a 12" or so bass grabbed the bait near the boat. Set the hook hard on instinct and the fish went sailing past me, smacked the dog in the side of the head and knocked him into the water. He kind of jumped, too. What a hoot. He didn't seem too upset about it, by the way.
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Location: Northern Illinois | All those pics of yellow labs make me think back to my old Sheena. She loved to go fishing with me, but she wouldn't stay out of the water. The retrieving instinct was so strong that she would jump into the water after I cast, thinking that I just threw a stick out there for her. Had to leave her home after that. Next I took her ice fishing with me. She ran around all over the lake for about a half hour, then came back to check on us. Apparently she had been poaching from other fisherman, as she puked out the remains of some perch. Oh yeah, here's a tip; don't throw the fish heads and guts out into the wooded lot next door. I don't know what the attraction is, but dogs love to roll in the rotting entrails of fish. Not exactly a bouquet of roses.
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Location: Bemidji, MN | My lab/pitbull mix got hooked on 2 seperate occasions. The first time she jumped off the boat seat and landed on an undertaker that was hanging from a rod. Got it in the back leg, but her imediate reaction was to turn around and bite it, so now she was stuck through the leg and the lips. Next she decided she needed to be by me, but the rod had other ideas, it was caught under the seat, and the drag was wrenched tight. She had my st croix 6'9" heavy rod bent almost tip to butt. I cut the s%$% out of my hand pulling line out because I couldn't get the release button to press due to the amount of pressure on the rod. It gets better too! no bolt cutters, and alone in the boat, I chewed through the hooks with the poor excuse for wire cutters on some slip-joint pliers. Finally got her loose, and between the yellow colored dog, my blood and her blood, the boat looked like a murder scene. The poor little kid at the landing that offered to help tie up my boat must have been traumatized for life.
The next time, I pulled up to the beach by my housefor lunch where the dog was out playing with my ex, she decided she wanted to be in the boat, so took a running leap over the front and landed on a top-raider that was hanging up by the trolling motor, taking it in the other back leg. The barb didn't come out this time, so we cut the hooks (have bolt cutters now) then brought her in the house and yanked out the barbed part with pliers (youch!!)
She still loves to go fishing, but she went with my ex in the breakup, so I lost custody. My lab is not a fishing dog, she isn't trained well enough to stay in the boat while those great "sticks" are being cast all over the place.
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Location: ohio | My golden passed on in december,,,
It's going to be a lonley season this year..
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