What's one of the stupidest funniest things you've done fishing?

[Sunshine]

https://youtu.be/4qQtkegxWw0

[BarryBobPosthole]

Sat on a lake in a boat and fished all night in a thunderstorm with lightning crashing all around.

STOOPID

BKB

[Thumper]

I rode across a lake in Northern Ontario Canada in Johnboy's boat with no butt-plug installed. (installed IN THE TRANSOM you sd'ing smart-asses!) ;)

[Nandy]

Take my cousin with me...

[Thumper]

Yeppers ...

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[Thumper]

Dang girl! That was 14 years ago? Time flies. We were just young whipper-snappers back then! ;)

[LJ3]

I was kayak fishing in fast, very cold springtime water that wasn't convenient for getting out of or rowing away from. Waited too long and finally had to get up on my knees to pee off the side. Kayak wobbled, then wobbled more, almost went ass over teakettle but I managed to save it before I went overboard.... as I watched my brand new shimano/St. Croix rig go flying over the side, launched from the rod holder. I think I had like, 3 total casts on that thing. Bye bye.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Oh crap! That hurts!

BKB

[Big Skyz]

Len you win, I can't top that.

[LJ3]

It certainly wasn't funny!! :) But it's good news that I'm still here. Hypothermia could have been in play if I went out of the 'yak. Next time I'll just pee in my pants, or plan better. Either way I'll have a warm fuzzy feeling.

[No-till Boss]

I pulled this up with my anchor , looks old school.
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[DeputyDog]

Yep, anything with a pull tab has to be at least 30-40 years old.

[Trav]

Posthole and I were fishing in a tournament in March and a boat went by us throwing this huge wake. His boat started to rock an I looked down just in time to see one of his rods rolling off the deck. Without regard to my personal safety I lunged to grab the rod hit the back of the seat and went ass over tea kettle right into the 50 degree water. I did manage to snag the rod though. With me trying to climb up the motor and him on the back deck trying to pull me in that 20 foot Champion probably looked like a sail from a 30ft sloop from afar. The front end was standing straight up out of the water.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I still haven't bought a ladder. Ought to be standard equipment. Getting back into one of those style boats is a bitch!

I can still see Travvy's face down under the water looking up at me with my fishing rod in his hands.

BKB

[LJ3]

^^winner

[Trav]

I got 1 more, we were night fishing in the summer from shore in this little cove and i was drunker than cooter brown. I was fishing with this huge buzzbait and got it hung up in a tree and couldn't get it out no matter how hard I yanked. My buddy says just start walking backwards it will pop out. I walked backwards forever that thing popped out and since it was night I couldn't see it but I coul hear a whirl approaching a tremendous velocity. It hit me right between the eyes and I dropped like a stone. It left a knot the size of a ping pong ball.

[Buckrub]

As surprising as you may think it to be, I cannot compete here.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Trav is a walking, breathing McManus story and that's a fact.

We were fishing one day when Trav got the backwoods urge and made a fast beeline for the bushes. I looked the other direction discreetly and turned around an appropriate time later to see him squatting buck ass nekkid. He said he took his clothes off so he wouldn't get any on them.

Think Sasquatch.

He is pretty renowned for coming home with only one sock because he doesn't go to the woods prepared, too.
BKB

[Trav]

In my defense that was not your normal backwoods shit, that was some world class ass exploding butt piss. I didn't want to risk any splash back.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I've gone in the drink myself more than once in cold weather and I can vouch for the gasp!
Those usually involved ducks in some way.
BKB

[Nandy]

In my defense that was not your normal backwoods shit, that was some world class ass exploding butt piss. I didn't want to risk any splash back.


TMI!!!!

[Nandy]

I've gone in the drink myself more than once in cold weather and I can vouch for the gasp!
Those usually involved ducks in some way.
BKB

I have gone diving with my 12ga on hand....

[No-till Boss]

I fell out of a boat fishing in a big ditch once that was scary as hell. I honestly didn't think it was that easy to do, and I never had a chance of recovery. I was sitting with the seat turned sideways, the next thing I knew, I was leaning back and splash, a back dive into a shallow muddy ditch. Of the thousands of hours I've spent in boats, that one spill changed my mindset on safety.

[BarryBobPosthole]

One of the scary things about some of the stuff we do. One slip away from a serious owie.

BKB

[No-till Boss]

I've been in a lot of very unfortunate situation in boats, most all of them I had time to reason what was happening. That particular event was too quick and without warning. It still scares me to some degree knowing I was out of control of the situation.

[quercus alba]

I don't do stupid stuff. Especially fishing

[Nandy]

Growing in an island it became very handy to know how to swim. Kids hated going boating because I will force them to wear one. I wear mine all the time because it is very hard to swim when you get knocked unconscious....

[Buckrub]

After thinking on this, I DO have one thing I did.

I went fishing with Posthole. And Trav.

At the same time.

[Chicken Dinner]

I was fishing off a dock with a buddy on the Nanticoke River in Delaware when we were 13-14 years old. We'd hopped the fence of this feed company and were illegally fishing off their dock. There was a good 4-5' drop to the water and my buddy fell in when one of their workers snuck up behind us yelled. We 'jumped' and my buddy falls completely in. As God as my witness he hit that water, goes completely under and claws his way up a piling so fast he was barely even wet when he got out. The worker guy laughed so hard he just told us to move along and not come back.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Hahahahaha...There's some Hall of Fame material in this thread.


BKB

[airbud7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLqBqYLmWo

[DeputyDog]

We had some family friends who lived on a big farm in Iowa and we'd go visit them in the summers. One year we all go fishing on some little lake near them. We were using those big black barn crickets for bait.

I make a cast and it lands kinda close to a mallard hen. She sees that cricket and grabs it. She got hooked through the tongue and has hard as she tried, she couldn't get it out. I ended up reeling her in. Our friends had some ducks at the farm already, so we took her back to the farm, clipped a wing and she lived there for several years.

[Thumper]

I was fishing off the coast of California and hooked a frigging pelican! Those damn things would follow us everywhere we went and were a royal PITA. I can see why some of those fishermen would get frustrated and clip their beaks (which is HIGHLY illegal BTW and I'd never do it, but I can sympathise). I fought with him a while hoping he'd get loose, but finally had to cut my line. I tied on a whole new rig, threw my first cast and ANOTHER one of those rat-bastards snatched my rig right out of the air! That sucker was in full flight and reeled off about 3/4 spool of line before I locked the reel down and snapped the line. BUT, they were NOTHING compared to catching a sea lion! But that's another story. Fishing around the California coast was always an adventure ... NOT fun. :(

[Nandy]

A friend and I were fishing in the north coast of PR and he hooked a seagul. It took quite an effort from both of us to get the bird freed.

[Bwana]

Had a beaver coming swimming by while casting for northerns so I thought I would be smart and give it a scare. My cast landed just beyond the critter so I thought when the line landed on it it would scare the beaver causing it to slap it's tail and head for the hills. That never happened. Instead it simply proceeded to swim away while peeling line from my fancy new reel. Thought for sure he would spool me and take the whole outfit with him down the river but thankfully the line eventually broke.

[No-till Boss]

My grandpa was a big time fisherman, his signature saying was, don't buy a pole that's too expensive to slap a snake with.

[Chicken Dinner]

Me and your Grandpa would have gotten along just fine. My best story is having an Osprey swoop down and grab an American Shad I was fighting. We both tugged back and forth a bit before he let loose. You should have heard him scream at me when I let that thing loose.