Ever do anything really stupid while fishing? 2024

Bass_Akwards reply :

I was watching the 2008 bassmasters this weekend. I forgot who it was, but some poor pro angler, forgot to cull a fish after he caught a MONSTER. He had to drive directly to the start and have a rep from the tourney toss his biggest fish back into the lake. He basically lost the tourney because of it. Just sick.

It got me to thinking about dumb stuff I've done on the water.

Like two summers ago when I lost four expensive crank baits in 4 casts because I'm so d**n stubborn and kept casting to the same spot thinking "I'm not gunna get hung up this time."

Or when I didn't turn the cap enough on my pontoon boat after filling it up with air. Real fun getting halfway across the lake when I hear the cap pop off the pontoon and a rush of air shoot out. Not as much fun however, as when the boats right side started sinking and I realized making it back to shore, a dry human being just isn't gunna happen.

Any of you guys ever do anything super dumb or funny while you're fishing?

roadwarrior reply :

I went fishing on the Tennessee a few summers

ago without any beer.

8-)

brushhoggin reply :

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I went fishing on the Tennessee a few summers
ago without any beer.

8-)

he said really stupid RW, not blatantly retarted

simplejoe reply :

I've done many stupid things while fishing. This past season I was fishing a tournament, as I was casting out my hand slipped off and it went flying then "splash" there it goes. ;D

done reply :

I have done plenty. I think my favorite were all the youtube vids though with Bill Dance. He has some absolutely hillarious ones. It does me good to see that even the pros are not immune to some of the stuff.

Dan: reply :

I thought the Bill Dance stuff was fake?

KYntucky Warmouth reply :

Took my dads jon boat out a few years ago, it was the first time I had been out without him and forgot to connect the fuel line to the outboard. Could not figure out why the motor wouldn't start, finally figured it out after trolling around and fishing a bit.

I have also thrown quiet a few combos in, never lost one but came close a few times. One went in my first trip out with it and I think twice after that.

Brian B reply :

First weekend I had my new boat, I was anxious and nevous to dump in myself. Go figure on a Wednesday afternoon the ramp was kinda busy. Couldn't figure out why the boat woudn't slide off the trailer. I was getting really frustrated when an older gentleman came over and unhooked the bow from the trailer......that was embarassing.

Bass_Fanatic reply :

When I was young before i had a boat, my cousin and I found a big piece of styrofoam on the bank of Toledo Bend and decided to fish off of it. We paddled that thing all the way across Sam Miguel only to get caught in a storm and had to swim it back. Spent 10 hours paddling and swimming and about 10 minutes fishing... ;D

Mr Jenkins reply :

Dumbest thing I did had to be last year. I had broken my trolling motor headpiece a small gear inside that steers it left or right. So my partner had sold his boat a week earlier. SO we jerryrig this thing as best we can with black tape and even go as far as welding the gear solid in the place where its stripped so it cant turn no farther 'yea right'. We had won the tournament a week prior to that one and had some confidence goin into it so we figured that we would take our time not burn the motor up much and hole in and fish. Well the fish had moved and our busted trolling motor was getting put to the test. ON top of that my partner whos name I wont say had a nasty case of the Hershey squirts/ which left him having to hit the bank several times and then it got so bad he couldnt even make it to the bank he was aiming from the side of the boat. Needless to say I laughed until I cried all day.Here we had payed money to enter a tournament and had a busted trolling motor and a man in serious need of imodium. We went on to loose that tournament horribly. So with that being said if your stuffs not working right"mechanically with your boat or physically with you" dont be STUPID keep your money dont contribute.

Hammer 4 reply :

I had a little 10' inflatable that I use to fish from all the time it had a little 4.5 hp outboard...welp, one day I'm head'n out to my favorite spot...and all of a sudden the throttle slips out of my hand, I turn around and the motor was in the water, apparently I forgot to tighten down the transom bolts.. :-[ Lucky for me, I had a safety chain bolted to the motor.

Was a chore gettin that motor back up w/o falling in the water.. ;D

fishfordollars reply :

Here's a few:

Leaving the plug out

Leaving the house without a spare tire

Leaving my rods in the back of a truck at 5:30am

Running 5 miles down the lake without the rods

Boat key at home 3 hours away

Culling the wrong fish

Stading on the top of the bow while peeing (Sure you won't fall in).

Leave tackle bags sitting on the porch

Leave without life jackets

Leave electronics on shelve in garage (200 miles from the lake).

Kick the TM to the right while on high, hit stump, walk right out of the boat. Air temp was 19*

Many more, but I'll quit there.

slonezp reply :

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First weekend I had my new boat, I was anxious and nevous to dump in myself. Go figure on a Wednesday afternoon the ramp was kinda busy. Couldn't figure out why the boat woudn't slide off the trailer. I was getting really frustrated when an older gentleman came over and unhooked the bow from the trailer......that was embarassing.

Same thing only worse.

I forgot to remove the tie downs on the transom. I backed down the ramp a little too far and the boat and trailer began floating, which also took all the weight off the back end of the truck. What made things worse is I had a 2wd pickup without positraction. I couldn't move. After a short while a guy came to the launch and was able to tow me out.

central.PA.bass reply :

I was in a tourney and caught a really close fish... i walked up onto the front of the boat and stepped on my bump board.. into the drink it went and i had to guess with another cheap ruler..

rowyourboat reply :

my little brother (age 5 or 6 at the time) and i were fishing in a boat at a local lake. He got his mr twister hung on a rock. He cried and didnt want to break it. I went swimming for that little twert lol.

OH-bass614 reply :

running up on a shallow flat with my outboard and breaking the shear pin...had to run back to the ramp with the old trolling motor i had at the time a 28# thrust needless to say it took awhile

forgetting to grab a new drain plug and getting to the lake and realizeing it after launching the boat and having water trickle in through the old one had my mom drop off the new one

fishing some stripmine pits and going off the beaten path sliding down a real steep ledge to get to a pond and preaking a eye off my rod.....the bigger problem was getting back up the ledge

had a area sure to produce a few quality fish in a federation nation tournament and going to early before the sun got up a pulled the fish to the cover and wasted to much time

RyneB reply :

I was fishing a local small river. It was late fall and the water temp was around 45 degrees. I was casting under a overhang. I was throwing a Chug Bug that i had bought that morning and was absolutely killing the smallmouth on it all day. I knew it was only a matter of time before i sent that chug bug into the tree. Well i end up getting it tangled in a branch pretty good. I was wearing waders, so i wade towards the tree but the water it way too deep. I fish this hole a lot and there was no way i was gonna look at that chug bug hang in the tree for as long as i fish this spot. Like a dummy, i take off the waders and proceed to swim to get my chug bug back. Luckily i only live 2 minutes from the river, but the walk back to the truck was frigid. The kicker is, the next day i threw that chug bug off a rock and broke it.

D4u2s0t reply :

I saw the angler who didn't cull, as soon as his line hit the water you could see the look on his face... My stupid move of the year was hooking a huge musky, and thinking that I was hooked on a stump. Felt exactly like a stump. Until I started walking down shore to unhook it, and it took off like a bat out of hell. I wouldn't feel so bad about it, except I realized afterwards that I was fishing in the swim lanes at the beach, and there's ZERO snags in there because they keep it clean for the kids lol. Nothing but a smooth, sandy bottom.

brianbass reply :

I foul hooked a carp,and told everyone that I was fishing with to get their cameras and scales ready for me to break the state bass record!When I finally got her in I had a nice sized crowd around me.Everyone was laughing, I was too.At that moment in time I felt like the smallest man ever. :-[ So now I never count my chickens before they hatch.

zacksdad reply :

I was fishing a team tournament, 5 fish limit. My partner and I had a rough day. I caught our big fish for the day, about a 3 lb largemouth with 10 minutes

left to fish.I landed the fish, opened the livewell,and threw the fish back in the lake!!! Talk about a brain fart.I have been friends with my fishing partner for 35 years, he said the look on my face was priceless. We still laugh about it to this day.

D4u2s0t reply :

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I was fishing a team tournament, 5 fish limit. My partner and I had a rough day. I caught our big fish for the day, about a 3 lb largemouth with 10 minutes
left to fish.I landed the fish, opened the livewell,and threw the fish back in the lake!!! Talk about a brain fart.I have been friends with my fishing partner for 35 years, he said the look on my face was priceless. We still laugh about it to this day.

dang, that's rough lol

nashontheriver reply :

i was fishing the river right next to a busy bridge near down town. i got hung up near the pilings on some rocks, but the water was too deep to get over to it. so i walk up the bank and up on top of the bridge, thinking i would just lift it straight up and get free. when i made it to the middle of the bridge i realize my line had become tangled in a tree that i walked past on the bank. after a half hour or so i got my line out of the tree branches and walked back to the center of the bridge, my lure and line had somehow worked free and were bobbing by the bank. the river is a great place to test one's patience.

spinnerbaitking reply :

5years old fishing at the Thames River in London as we were leaving I threw my rod off the bridge saying it wasn't any good because it didn't catch fish, still hear about that at 49yrs old, uncles get lots of laughs

Sbking

JohnnyBigger reply :

9 years old tried to lip a 5lbs mudfish........i learnd a new word that day :-/

riverfisher reply :

The first year I bought my first bass boat its the end of the season in November. I was fishing an open tournament on Champlain. Half the day was over my partner and I had 5 out of our 8 fish limit and were looking good for the day so far.

Went to hit a spot that we pre fished a couple days prior and started fishing the bank going with the wind. Next thing I know I hear someone motoring towards us and he drop's his trollin motor a cast away ahead of us. Same color flagging's on his trollin motor so I know he's fishin the open.

Needless to say I'm PO'd rather then start chucking baits at his boat and start an argument I'm gonna motor up and leap frog'em. I strap my rods down start up the motor and hammered down. Next thing I know Im getting sprayed by water and getting soaked, OOPS the trollin motor is still down!! Bent the shaft pinion nut gears are all chewed up ended my day and my season right there. I was so bent I wanted to puke and poop myself.

Moral of the story is learn from my stupidity and always double and triple check that you have pulled up your trollin motor before you take off!! A very expencive mistake! hahaha

b.Lee reply :

I was trying to learn how to cast right handed once and on my first try I threw my pole into the water. Luckily the water was only 3 feet deep, but it was muddy, I was laying on the ground searching for it while people were walking by.

Sam reply :

In a tournament on the Potomac I went to a place to fish after blast off and when I went to start the motor to move the boat the motor would not start.

Panic set in. What was wrong with the motor?

After checking everything and sitting there, just floating around, I checked the kill-switch.

Sure enough, it was on. I must have knocked it up when I moved to fish the spot.

Lucky for me I was alone and no one saw this dumb move.

So I always check that kill-switch before I start the motor. ;D ;D ;D

Siebert Outdoors reply :

There isnt enough bandwith for me to continue on this subject. ;D

kikstand454 reply :

ive done so many stupid things just to catch fish.... it actually scares me sometimes when i think back to it. wading around waist deep in swamps miles from a phone comes to mind.....

but just this past weekend, i had friday off. i had stuff to do in the morning but decided i was going to fish as soon as that was done.

well i was ready to go @ 8am and was happy to be heading out so soon. i threw my rods and stuff in the car and took off. the place i was going is 32 miles one way from my house. but i was excited cause its a state park and canoe rentals are cheap there. plus i have never gone there and not caught any fish.... and with it being cold, i could factor reds and trout into my bass fishing dreams!

so i get there, rent the canoe, drag it down to the river, and go to the car to get my gear.... and i had left my tackle at the house.

all i had was what was tied on the four rods i took. a c-rig with one lure, a shaky head, a spinner bait and a jerk bait. i was like, well thats all i need right? just have to make sure to be careful with the worms....

lost both worms to bad casts,,,, didnt get a single bite all day.

oteymc reply :

Last summer we were fishing a small lake that is tm only. It was really windy, so I anchored while fishing a point. We moved on from there, and a little while later the tm started getting really weak. This was the second place we had been that day, so I just figured we were running the battery dead. Then I realized the anchor was still down! It had about 100 lbs of weeds hung on it! It is a wonder I didn't burn up my TM.

farmpond1 reply :

Wading in a pond to retrieve a 3 dollar fly-only to ruin a 150 dollar cell phone.

Letting go of the outboard motor handle too soon (before the boat had stopped completely) which spun the boat around wildly-nearly throwing my fishing partner overboard. He was kind enough not to say anything but I could read his thoughts.

"Repairing" a 12 volt "cigarette lighter" adapter poorly which then (apparently) shorted out and nearly started a fire on my boat. (This is why I now keep electronics and electrical wiring as far away from my fuel tank as possible).

The classic "forgetting to put in the drain plug"

Forgetting to put 2 cyle oil in my gas and then having to bum some. (At least I remembered before I locked up my motor).

I'm sure my buddies could add more but this is the start of my list.

farmpond1 reply :

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Last summer we were fishing a small lake that is tm only. It was really windy, so I anchored while fishing a point. We moved on from there, and a little while later the tm started getting really weak. This was the second place we had been that day, so I just figured we were running the battery dead. Then I realized the anchor was still down! It had about 100 lbs of weeds hung on it! It is a wonder I didn't burn up my TM.

Been there, done that. Only it was the outboard and not the trolling motor. Actually, I think I've done both.

simplejoe reply :

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In a tournament on the Potomac I went to a place to fish after blast off and when I went to start the motor to move the boat the motor would not start.
Panic set in. What was wrong with the motor?

After checking everything and sitting there, just floating around, I checked the kill-switch.

Sure enough, it was on. I must have knocked it up when I moved to fish the spot.

Lucky for me I was alone and no one saw this dumb move.

So I always check that kill-switch before I start the motor. ;D ;D ;D

Same thing happened to me, I lost half of the day messing around with the boat, I had the engine cover off, looking at the motor. I couldn't figure it out and was starting to get mad. Then, I was walking back to the consol to try and start the motor again and noticed the kill switch clip laying on the floor. Man, I felt like an Arse that day. :-[

fishermantony reply :

The first time taking my wife and 3 year old son out in my first bass boat I left the plug out. I launched and it started taking on water..........I knew I left the plug out so

I grabbed it from the truck but since it was in the water I didn't put it in the right place. When I had the outboard running it was fine......when I slowed or stopped it started taking on water again. Looking back it's scary to think about!

RyneB reply :

We were staying at a hotel on a weekend fishing trip and i brought the battery in so we could charge it. Got the boat launched and remembered I left the trolling battery in the hotel room.

My friend sat on a rapala and i had to pull a sure set hook out of his rear, then two days later he was in the boat barefoot and stepped on a Ratt L Trap.

I was standing in the back of the boat relieving myself when the man on the trolling motor hit a stump and knocked me in the water.

ilovefooffur reply :

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I have done plenty. I think my favorite were all the youtube vids though with Bill Dance. He has some absolutely hillarious ones. It does me good to see that even the pros are not immune to some of the stuff.

Love the Bill Dance videos! That guy is hilarious!

bassfisherjk reply :

I didn't open the vent for my gas tank before trying to start my 9.9.After taking a fit,plus looking the motor all over,my son asked if I opened the vent.I felt very dumb.

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