I fell overboard trying to get a spinner bait out of a bush. I was fortunate to be in shallow water and able to drag my boat even shallower to crawl in. I since bought a boarding ladder. Now I wear a bathing suit in hot weather and jump in tom cool off , climb back in a pop a cold one.

Glad you had your phone with you and someone to call. Even happier that you are still with us.

I did a Peter Pan last winter from the front of my Skeeter. Luckily I was in 4ft of water. It was cold. And rainy. I wasn’t able to climb over the side of my boat with the extra clothes and rain gear soaked. I had to pull my boat to shallower water, through super thick hydrilla and lily pads to get back in. Then it was straight to the truck to sit in the heat and wait for weigh in. I was flipping grass and ran the boat into a stump.

Adrenaline kicks in and it’s amazing how the will to get back on dry land gets ya going. I can reach my cell phone from the side console, so I have that option. If there’s service and someone I know fishing the lake at the time. You got lucky. Glad you can talk about.

I had something similar to happen about 5years ago on Tawakoni. I got my Triton out of storage and cleaned it up, some stains on the sides and the cap required polish and wax to get them off. Then after a few new add ons I was ready for a test run on the lake. I threw in a couple of rods just in case the opportunity to chase sandies came up as I cruised the boat around the lake. I started checking humps and points when a dark cloud appeared in the Northwest so I headed back to the ramp at the state park. Running along I blew my hat off and spun the boat around to get it, as I reached out from the driver’s seat to get it a waved moved it slightly out of reach so I leaned out and down with my life jacket on( slick nylon coating on exterior) next thing I felt was the slide over the side of my freshly waxed boat.when I went in thank God I had my life jacket and kill switch connected, the boat was in gear and idling when I reached for my hat. I yanked the line to the kill switch as soon as I surfaced and the motor stopped but the boat still had momentum and it took a few seconds to catch up to it. Fortunately I had a ladder installed several years before and after I climbed back aboard the gravity of the situation set in. If I not had a life jacket on and a kill switch cord attached I could have found my self in the middle of the lake threading water watching my boat slowly idle away from me.I was also lucky it was warm July water I fell into.