Like Boudreaux, I fish alone often. I always put in at Murrell when going to the Vine. If you've put in at Murrell, you know it is a shallow ramp. It is earlier this year and the water temp is still in the low 50's.

I pull up as always and prep the boat before backing down the ramp. I back in thinking I'm deep enough, but when I go to unload the boat, it will not come off the trailer.

This is the first time out this year and the trailer is sitting to shallow, so I put the boat in what I thought was NEUTRAL and head to my truck to back in a little farther. Well my gear shift doesn't always go in neutral from reverse. I go to back the trailer in a little farther, you guessed it, the boat exits the trailer on its own. I jump out of my truck running full speed into the freezing water to retrieve my boat, with no driver, heading towards the other bank. Luckily the steering wheel is turned a little and it makes a wide circle as I catch up to the bow. I pull myself in via the trolling motor shaft and shut it down before reaching landfall.

I still think about what could of happened if one, the boat would of been headed straight away from me. The cove is only about 100 yards across. Two, the boat makes a sharp turn and heads back towards me with the prop coming right at my frigid body.

Luckily no one was around to see my antics, even though I know it would of made some money on AFV.

The funniest I have ever witnessed was an older couple trying to launch their older Monarch (stick steer) style bass boat. I was beached waiting on my partner to retrieve the truck and trailer at the time next to the ramp. This boat had the square fiberglass seat bases moulded right into the floor of the hull. Granny was in the truck and Gramps was in the front drivers seat in the boat as they inched backwards towards the water. As he motioned for her to proceed backwards down the ramp, you could here him too. Come on back, come on back....then...he hollered WOAH!!!!!! Whelp, Granny hit the brakes HARD and down Grampa went sliding towards the gas tank and batteries in the back. The seat he was in, snapped/broke loose from the floor and off he went towards the back of the boat. He came up hollering, dangit when I say WOAH, I MEAN WOAH WOMAN!! I tried my hardest to not laugh out loud and dang near drowned at the ramp from almost laughing and rolling/falling out of the boat.

This is good stuff. The Granny and Grampa one had my eyes watering.

I hope I can describe this correctly.. I was fishing in a Touney at ray Roberts. When we go to the ramp a man had backed his trailer into a hole at the end of the ramp. The boat was still not coming off the trailer but there was no way he was going to be able to pull it out of the hole. Another man stopped to help after he had already launched his boat. Their plan was to back the stuck truck back even deeper until the boat would float off. They went a little deeper but the boat would still not float and the truck was up to the front tires by now. here is where it gets good. the man who came to help attached a tow strap on the back of his truck and to the front of the stuck truck, mind you the empty trailer of the first truck was still attached. the good samaritan also tied a line from the back of his boat to the back of the boat that is still stuck on the trailer. The plan was to back up in unison while the helping boat was helping pull the boat off the trailer, when the stuck boat was free he was going to flash his lights and the two trucks would pull up the ramp together. well....when the stuck boat was starting to budge they flashed the lights, the two trucks gunned it to get back out of the hole, the trailer rose from the water but not before it picked the boat back up and started dragging onto the boat ramp. the lead truck saw what was happening and slammed on his brakes and the back truck run up over his trailer. When all of the noise had settled we had one trailer bent to heck, the front of one truck beat to heck and a long stripe up the ramp where the boat had been drug before it came to rest about 15 feet up the ramp. It was the most amazing cluster I have ever seen!!

I almost forgot about one i did to myself. I was loading up at Meadowmere park one night. I had my good ole German Shepherd with me. She was already loaded up in the back of my Ford Explorer and watching me through the glass. Did you know those vehicles had a lock button in the back of them by the hatch door? I did not know either until she hit the lock button with her foot. Luckly I had the windows cracked a bit and eventually hit the unlock button with the tip of a stick. It took longer than it should have becasue she thought I was playing with her and kept going after the stick when i was pocking it through the window. I am not sure which made me more mad, the fact that she locked me out or the fact that she crawled over the seats to the front of the car to prevent me from getting back in!!

engineering sounded good boat pulls boat off trailer, truck pulls truck out, finished product OUCH!!! Omggg that is funny. There is a picture floating around here of a nautique hooked to a submerged truck, a long ways from the ramp. Found it, I would like to hear this story...either alcohol or aggie.

Now I am picturing your dog grabbing the stick lol, too funny.

For those who have not seen this yet, you might have to scroll down to see the picture...notice the back window of the truck.

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbt...der#Post3334071

I will post it for you again.

The guy on the ramp bent over double really makes that picture even better....LOL If he had rolled the windows up it might have floated even farther.

I had never noticed the guy on the ramp. Can someone photoshop his shirt maroon?

I would be interested in the real story behind this as well. I always thought it was a photoshop job. Who has an A&M sticker that big?

Was walking my dog at the Lake Arlington ramp one evening and was watching a pontoon being loaded. They get it loaded and out of the water grandpa hollers at I am assuming his son "raise the motor up". The son fires up the big motor and trims the motor up. I walk over and say "you don't have to have the big motor on to run the electric trim motor. You probably just burnt your impellar up." He killed the motor and sure enough it works just fine with out the outboard on.

I have another "one of those days" story. I just have a kayak I take out on my Honda Accord. It is a 97 so a 12 year old car but it still runs good for the most part. I had recently started having problems with it starting so I had left it running when I launched. I usually don't use the ramps much but this day I did. I launched just fine but the funny part comes when I was coming off the lake. I pulled down the ramp forward so I could just through the yak onto the car, tie it down, and go. I put the e-brake on as I always do but I turned the engine off this time. After tying the yak down, I had got in the car to leave but it would not start. I had a few people try to help but to no avail. Someone even hooked up one of those battery testers and said "It's definitely a battery problem." So I tried to start it with the starter thing they had on it... Would not start. They had to leave so there I was sitting there all by myself and pissed off at my car when I look down... The car was in NUETRAL THE WHOLE TIME!!! I did have to have a laugh after the fact. Especially because of the guy saying "It's definitely a battery problem." LOL!!!

one night at lake clark, in ennis, a buddy and me were fishing in my boat near the boat ramp. we watched a guy back his boat down into the water, grind on the starter for at least 20 minutes. he took the engine cover off and tried to get shoot some ether or b12 or something in the carbs to get it started, not a good idea. the engine backfired, caught the boat on fire, he tried to climb accross the front of the trailer to get into the truck and pull it out of the water. he slipped and fell, busting his chin open on the tailgate of the truck, messed up his ankle. we ran over to help him out with our fire extinguisher. we got the fire put out for him. in the meantime, he had left his truck running the whole time, it ran out of gas. he pulled the tank out of his boat and siphoned enough into his truck to get it started and pulled out,
while all that was going on, another guy was waiting on the ramp to launch his bass tracker, he was clearly pissed off for the other guys lack of preperation, he stood outside his truck drinking beer, cussing very loud, and kept turning up the radio in his truck louder and louder. he finaly gets to back his boat in the water, cranks the engine, and hammers down in reverse, it won't come off the trailer, he actually tilts the motor all the way up, and punches it in reverse, and leaves it running wide open in reverse so that he can look at his prop. he can't figure out what is wrong, so he pulls the boat back out of the water, with the engine still running, of course. walks to the back of the boat to look at it, low and behold, the transom straps are still on.
i was laughing, my buddy was laughing. the guy was so mad that he pulled out a pocket knife and cut the straps rather than unbuckle them, backed down into the water and launched his boat successfuly. we saw him about 20 minutes later with his boat sitting realy low in the water, apparently he forgot to put the plug in, he tried to load the boat on trailer, full of water, unsuccessfuly. i decided to try and help the guy. i trolled my boat back over towards him and he explained how he forgot to put the plug in and now the boat was too heavy to get on the trailer. i suggested putting the plug back in and turning on the bilge pump for a few minutes. he said "i never thought about that".
it was a very fun evening even if we didnt catch any fish.

notice the A&M sticker on the window of that guys truck!!

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only person that will tell on himself.