my trolling battery caught on fire, 6 inches from the gas tank, i grabbed the fire extinguisher and my buddy grabbed the ice chest and we put it out at the same time. The End

i was fishing with my old man at a small lake called Two Draws Lake in Post back when i was about 12-13yrs old. I was throwing a blue/black bass jig off a dock ( not really knowing what i was doing, just casting and reeling it in) i hooked a small bass, about 2 lbs maybe, and just as i brought it out of the water, my knot came untied and it dropped. me and dad laughed at my poor knot tie skills, and he showed me a better knot.
about half hour later, a guy fishing from a shore a few feet away yelled " hey, i caught a bass with a jig in his mouth!"
sure enough, it was my jig, still stuck in its lip !

didnt really learn anything did he!

Well I have alot to tell!!
A good one was I was fising at Lake Tawakoni by myself and I seen a guy in cut off jean walking along the bank. I noticed he was on TRA land along ways from any where. I thought how the hell did he get there??? Well I was about 200 yards off the bank I noticed as he got closer and closer he was ruff looking, sun burnt,drunk as hell and talking to his self. Well when he got closer to where I was he jumped in the water and started swimming to my boat. I thought dont tell me he's swimming too my boat? Hell I might have to kill this crazy sun of buck! He swam to the boat and asked for a ride. What the HELL. I said what happened. He said he got in a fight with his friend and they though him out of the boat so he swam to the nerest bank. I helped him in then he asked my to drive him to duck cove where his friends were parked. When we got to duck cove they were carring a guy to the truck because this guy in my boat broke his friends leg. Thats why the though him out of the boat.

I was skiing on Lake Thomas in West Tx when I saw a fellow in a sinking boat. His engine had been acting up. Seems it died and as he rushed back to check the engine, the wake washed over the transom. The game warden plucked him out of the drink.

My buddies sprang into action. I dropped off by the rapidly sinking boat, one friend started throwing me all our life vests, the other friend threw me a tow rope. Only the nose of the boat was protruding out of the water as I shoved all the PFDs into the nose to keep it from sinking. I tied the tow rope on the frt eye bolt and my buddy hit the gas, I pulled the plug as the boat began to plane out. The boat was completely drained by the time we got it to the ramp. We were feeling pretty good about our emergency aid until we later overheard the boat owner cussing us. Turned out, he was attempting to sink the boat for the insurance money!

along the lines of the sinking boat...
first story is we pulled up to the boat ramp and saw a group of kids and two parents in a boat that had just put in. I told dad there was somthing funny about the way the boat looked. (i was about 15)... We thought mabey it was just overloaded until the back end sank. My family and I jumped out of the boat. Being a lifeguard I emediatly started stuttleing kids to the dock..Thank god they had life vest... The boat spun over and sank right in the middle of the ramp about 20 yards out. You've never seen so many people work together so well on a boat ramp. I was proud to say I was from cleburne that day. Me and another guy dove and found the boat tied a rope on a cleat and with the help of about 20 onlookers started pulling the boat toward the ramp. We managed to pull it to the trailer we had back WAY down in the water and pull the boat out.

Later that summer on the same lake the whole family was out skiing. We had noticed the boat was a little heavy after a while but just thought it was from people getting in and out. Unfortunatly we thought the bildge pump was broke cause it wasn't pumping any water out... About 10 mins later we noticed the boat was really really heavy... Dad decides we need to head to the ramp... the boat wouldn't even get on plain... so we kick the women out of the boat with a bunch of life jackets and a knee board...(i will get [censored] for this but everyone in my family swims competitively they were fine) Dad tells me to keep the hammer dowm on our 90h evenrude... all that does is tip the nose up further and add a tiny bit of speed. At this point dad is diggin around in the bildge trying to find the problem... I hear him yell somthing and just keep heading for shore. I am standing up to see over the tip of the nose and still can bairly see. we FINALLY reach shore after what seems like an eternity. Dad comes up and tells me what the problem is.

You see in boats with bilge pumps in them there has to be a hole in the boat for the water to be pumped out. But when the hose from the pump to the outside breaks all you have is a 1 inch hole in your boat. lol... When I was driveing for shore dad found the stream of water shooting into our boat and spent the intire ride back with a finger stuck in it trying to stop the flow.

and my last story(that I can think of right now lol) is when we put the boat in at a little lake in alvarado. We pulled out and after about 2 mins of looking for a likely spot smoke starts billowing out of the console and the back hatches... We run around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to find the fire. We found it. Our trolling motor had shorted and the wire runningthe length of the boat had caught of fire. the smell can't be put into words lol

I guess I was about 12 years old when dad took me on a fishing trip to upper Saskatchewan, a lake called Otter Lake. Well we went some friends. One of them brought a boat and we hired a guide, so we split up and fished two boats.

One of the guys in my boat was walking around in the boat with his rod, as he climbed over a seat he kicked his pole out of his hand and over the side. If I remember correctly it was about 60 feet of water.

Well he didnt have a spare rod. So he started jigging with an extra reel and no rod. Low and behold he caught the lure from the rod he kicked over the side, and he pulled in his rod.

That was an amazing trip, we brought home 60lbs of fillets in less than a week.

Trolling for Sand Bass on Whitney with a girl friend in a Bass Boat. Normally never troll (for anything), but it was more of killing time talking thing with a girl friend.

Started hearing a thumping sound coming from the back of the boat. Told the girl freind to take the wheel while I go to the back of the boat to see what thumping sound is.

Get back there and it's a blue cat about 10 lbs hitting his nose up against the transom (like someone knocking on the door). Went and got a net out (from a compartment in the boat), went back to the transom and waited for him to come back and thump so more. He did, made several attemps to scoop him up (missing several times), and then finally netted him. Got him in the boat. I was a little afraid that Blue Cat was going start talking me.

He was perfectly fine (seemed just like a normal blue cat). Asked him what he wanted, if needed some help or what? He never answered so I released him. He swam off and didn't come back.

I guess he just had the wrong boat.

Last summer my friend and I were out fishing at Lavon where we came up on three young teenagers in the middle of the lake, with 1 paddle, floating on a blown up kid pool that was starting to take on water with no life jackets on�We pulled them over to the shore but if these kids are an indication of where the future of our nation is headed, just let me out of the boat now.

Last year turned on the livewell and after about 5 min notice livewell didnt fill up. Thats because a pipe broke(?) so it pumped all the wtare in the hull of the boat. Made it back at 1mile hr to the dock

Those are the GT kids.
GT=Gifted and Talented

had the live well thing happen to me too... I had forgotten about it till I read ur post bluwave... lol

Bass fishing Tawakoni back in the 70�s with my friend named Eddie Arnold (not the singer). Eddie was scared to death of water, he could not swim. Normally he always wore a life jacket the whole time on the water. It was a hot July summer day, too hot even for Eddie to wear his Life Jacket that day (this was back before we had small inflatable life vest).

I made an errant throw resulting in my lure getting stuck in some overhanging tree limbs. Tried shaking it off, but no good. Trolling motored under the limbs and started shaking them limbs with quite a bit of force and you guessed it. A big old snake comes falling out of that tree, flying right into the boat.

It was one of those surreal moments in your life where everything start going in super S L O W motion. That snake was really big, and going through all kinds of contoursions as he was flying towards the boat. About the same time that snake was making a big thud sound hitting the bottom of the boat, I also hear a big splash from Eddie jumping out of the boat (of course with out his life jacket). The snake was no longer my biggest concern.

Eddie was swimming (or kind of swimming) as fast as he could away from the boat out towards the middle of the lake. I just left my rod hanging from the tree and with the TM started trying to catch Eddie. As I did the snake figured out how to get out of the boat and back into the water. When I caught Eddie he grabbed the side of the boat and I said get in. He said he's not getting in until that snake is out. Told him he just did get out and he�s back in the water NOW! Eddie almost flew back into the boat. Turned out Eddie was more scared of snakes than he was of water.

I asked Eddie, thought you couldn�t swim?

Said, didn�t know I could.

I was bank fishing last year during the spawn it was kinda muddy, as iI was moving along I kept hearing something in the bush next to me so I stepped away a little cause I saw about 1000 snakes, with every move I made that bush moved and then it got closer so I droped my rod and ran and screamed like a girl until it stopped chasing me only to find out it was some fishing line that got stuck in my boots. I thank god that no one was around to see except my buddy who ran faster than me. I HATE SNAKESSSS