Fess Up! 2013 Bloopers and Blunders

[GetANet]

Been fishing a long time and probably have done them all at least once if not a few times. This year was thankfully uneventful for me other than launching my boat once with the tie down strap on and giving my daughter a hell of a laugh! I had half of my truck in the water and was like WTF? And was on my buddy's john boat and anchored up to fish an area that looked good so about ten minutes in i realized i'm no where near where i dropped it and looked down behind me and the anchor was gone knot must have slipped and lost it all, line and anchor but hopefully i'll find it in the spring when the waters clear and the weeds are still low.
We all do some dumb stuff especially when we're in a hurry!!!
Good Thread!!!

[Bicey]

I was pretty good this yr. Broke my favorite rod by slamming it down after losing a fish. Almost got a speeding ticket at spruce run while in the park.......doing 35 in a 25 mph heading to the launch. Ranger let me off with a seat belt ticket.
I saw alot of other people having some bad luck at spruce run.....from tipping sail boats at the launch to canoes tipping as well....sorry but it made me laugh every time I saw it.

[ScowardNJ]

After the Lil Swartswood M&G I still had some good daylight to burn so I decided to check out a section of the Pompton River I've been scoping out for a long time. The section of the river i wanted to fish requires a paddle across a man made wetland mitigation pond. The pond is impounded by a manmade dyke and dam that runs parallel to the river. I paddled across the pond and pulled my yak up to the top of the dyke looking down at the river. The slope was about a 10' drop to flat 25' landing to the river. So I'm holding the back handle of the yak(which is loaded with rods and gear) on top of this dyke looking down at the river bank. I slowly start sliding yak down the river side of the dyke and think that if i just let the yak go, it will slide right down to this large flat landing area. I let the yak go and it took off like Clark Griswold during the sled scene in Christmas Vacation, it shot right out into the center of the Pompton and the current immediately started taking down stream. I emptied my pockets, took of my shirt and I do this sorry ass belly flop into the Pompton, commence a free style sprint swim across the river to my yak. Then I had to swim and wade the yak back to where all my shit was. I got out of the river laughing my ass off only wishing someone was there to see this whole thing.

[Eskimo]

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I don't recall any major blunders this year. The only one that stands out in my mind is after reading about this technique where people strapped their kayak cart to the back of their car to push their kayak up onto their roof. I gave it a try and almost got the kayak on top of my car when the cart slipped slideways dumping the kayak off the side of the car. The cart soon followed, swung on the straps, and put a bunch of dents and scratches in my car.

Now, I just lift the damn kayak up and put it on my roof rack.


I don't know who this guy is, but the 2013 NJ Fishing Blooper of the Year Award goes to the guy who accidently launched his van into Round Valley Reservoir.

I'm not sure what he was trying to do. Maybe he had a roof rack and didn't want to lift his kayak.

[Jigman13]

One blooper this year. It started off scary but luckily wound up garnering a few chuckles once I realized I didnt impale my jugular or carotid in my neck.

I was out bass fishing on the Clark Reservoir in a damp rain with a fishing buddy from shore in mid May. I was tossing unweighted senkos on a worm hook. I make a flip along a shoreline under a bunch of tree branches and start working the worm back to me when I got hung up on a submerged log. The skin-hook must've given way b/c the worm hook was buried pretty good. I knew I wasn't getting the hook back so I tighten the drag and go to pop the line. Well, something certainly popped--unfortunately it wasn't the line. The hook actually broke right at the curve and the shaft shot back at me and speared me right under the jaw bone on the left side of my neck. I didnt feel a goddamn thing. All I noticed was the line coming from the tip of my rod back to me. It took a few seconds to realize where it ended as I softly and cautiously followed it up to my neck. All I felt was slightly elevated skin on my neck where the hook shaft went fully in, and the hook eye and knot on the outside. I turned and called for my buddy, and told him to get ready to go to the hospital. After a minute or so I told him I'm going to pull the hook shaft out of my neck. He started getting pale--not cool. So I pull it out and hope blood doesn't come streaming out. Luckily, it didnt--it just beaded up and slowly accumulated as it would with, say, a pin prick. It had to have just missed something vital in my neck. Fortunately for me I didnt have to find out. And I also learned that I tie exceptional knots! Here's a pic of the hook shaft that speared me and a blurry/bloody pic of my neck where it went in. Scary shit!

[Michael82929]

Lets see I had two big blunders this yr..

Spring trout season - teachin my 7 yr old how to trout fish, grabbed the wrong fishing vest / without my license and of course that day - game wardens decide to show up. Instead of embarassing myself infront of my seven yr old - decided to walk up to them instead and told them, hey - I dont have my license, came here with my 7 yr old to teach him how to fish and of course - dont want to set the wrong example - he told me he appreciated me coming up to him and just gave a warning..

Now Blunder of all time - woke up Sat AM at my lake to see the main battery in my lund dead and couldnt get it to hold a charge. Now what I should have done, was probably yank the boat out (only takes me 10m to do / and just go down to the boat store 30m away) and have them do it 1 - 2 - 3. Well thats the lesson I learned. Will do that next time.

INSTEAD I decide to do it myself, fried a bunch of F*cking wires and 1100 later - great lesson learned(those gel batteries alone cost 275$ god damn!). Now the fun part was - I fried the wire that brings up my engine and couldnt now tow it off my property becuase of a high spot / I would have just dug my lower unit into the dirt. After 2 hrs from a great friend - he was able to get the engine up.

[EJS]

I was fishing up in the 1000 islands in about 60' of water back of the boat. The current was swift, both anchors out holding bottom. I go to sidearm cast, bait hits the anchor line, sling shots the pole out of my hand into the water! Whoever said cork handles will float the rod.... Wrong! To the bottom it goes! So I get out the back up rod, hit the tackle box for 8oz of lead, 2/0 hooks, yes about 4 and start fishing for my pole at the bottom! After 30 minutes i am at the "just 1 more cast" stage. So give it the ole college try, and I feel something at the end of the line, and not just 8oz of lead. I managed to hook the bail on the reel and up from the bottom comes my fishing pole!

A little WD drenching and it's back in action!

[Hooked4Life]

Great posts--thanks for the laughs! Now let me get back to reorganizing my tackle box.

[dopderbeck]

Originally Posted by Rottilover

Newbies to launching a boat we decided to hit the Passaic for some Fall Pike. We hit our launch destination at around 10 am and the fun began. My buddy backed the van down to the water a little fast and yours truly dropped the rope attached to the boat . Now the 14 footer was floating out in the beautiful Passaic a few hundred yards from a waterfall. I never felt so helpless for about 10 seconds, what a feeling. So I had to put all those YMCA lessons back in the day to the test. Swam out to the boat in slightly cold water and brought it back. I still haven't gotten the stink off my clothes . Well lesson learned anyway. . Won't happen again. Needless to say , no Pike that day!!

You SWAM in the PASSAIC??

[dopderbeck]

Allegedly dinged a truck as I backed my trailer into parking spot. Cop met me when I came back in around 2 am. Charged with leaving the scene of an accident, even though I hadn't seen any damage and didn't really "leave." Took two court visits to clear up potential 6-month license suspension.