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 Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: TxJole]
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04/13/09 09:51 PM
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Uncle Zeek
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Seen a guy put a boat on a trailer with no bunks once. Has anyone seen the homemade pontoon at Lewisvile with the wheels built on the boat? Thats a sight, he pulls the tongue up on the ramp and him and a group of guys and big women struggle to pull it up the ramp and hook it to a mini van, and pull the whole thing out of the water. Oh that sounds beautiful! What ramp do they normally load this contraption at?
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: Uncle Zeek]
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04/14/09 01:32 AM
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TxJole
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: TxJole]
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04/14/09 02:47 AM
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Uncle Zeek
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Hehehe ... thats where I usually put in. Which ramp? The main one facing the lake, or the one in the cove?
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: Uncle Zeek]
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04/14/09 03:10 AM
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Capt'n Wings
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I used to keep a boat at the Galveston Yacht Basin. There is a very large and popular bait camp and ramp there. On a holiday weekend, they launch 80-100 boats. It's an absolute riot. They had old school bus seats along one side of the bait house in the shade and we would walk over from the docks and sit drinking beer and watching when they started comming back late in the afternoon. Sunburned, drunk and stupid. I could write a book about the things we saw, but the most dramatic was probably the guys who would go off the dropoff on the end of the ramp and pull the axles off the trailer with their big trucks. We called them "indians" because the trailer looked like the old time travois the early American indians dragged behind their horses(two long saplings with something stretched across it in the back). Saw it happen many times. Somtimes it was with the boat already loaded and even sometimes when they were launching. Saw a couple of vehicles go in the water with the boat. Saw a guy hit the trailer so hard with the boat, it went over the winch stand and onto the car, etc., etc.
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: kevgray]
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04/14/09 01:21 PM
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I end up fishing by myself or with novice buddies a lot. I always get stuck doing the one man Chinese fire drill to launch my boat. One morning out at Big Sam, I see this guy launching this fancy new 21' bass boat solo. I always pay attention to guys launching solo so I can learn any new tricks.
So far everything is as I do. He unhooks the winch and starts to back down. I notice as he enters the water that unlike me, he doesn't have to loop his bow rope around the winch post to keep the boat from just floating away. I think to myself that those new fangled bass boats must have some secret to them.
As a buddy of mine backs my trailer down the ramp (yes, I do have a few good friends), I watch the guy launch his boat and see it float out into the lake. Now I'm thinking this fancy boat must really have a neat feature. Something involving remote control. The guy steps out of his truck, looks at me and says "That's not how I wanted to start the morning off!". He asks if I can retrieve his boat, but my 17" aluminum is no match for his. I pickup him and my friend at the ramp and bring the guy to his boat. He and I laugh it off saying how at least we will never see each other again. I ask him where he is from and find out we're both
from the Houston area and live less than a mile apart. Believe it or not, that is one of the fastest ways to get a bunch of boats launched when there is only one person fishing. Let the boat float off, and have one person pick guys up at the ramp and ferry them to their boats. That is of course if the ramp is in a cove or something so the boats won't all float off.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a look at the American Indian".
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: KingwoodCat]
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04/14/09 01:50 PM
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Boudreaux
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I fish alone a lot. I launched my boat on morning during spring break by myself as usual. I always put my loop around the winch so that I won't float off. i launch as normal. Pull the truck up enough to get ahold of the bow line. get the line and start to pull my boat over to the dock. Got a light wind about 10 mph comming outta the South..... towards the open water from the ramp. I give the bow line a good pull to get the boat moving and.......the rope comes unclipped, and starts floating off into the lake. I was worried for a min, and thought no problem right, someone will give me a ride out to my boat. Some fellas were launchign at the same time and said they would give me a ride.... low and behold they couldn't get their motor started, all the while my boat is drifiting out to sea.
I finally stopped some fella comming back from the bait house up the road and he gave me a lift. I felt like a complete idiot. Thank god I caught a mess of big white bass so I didn't look so bad when I came back.
If I fished for money.........I'd be broke.
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: Boudreaux]
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04/14/09 02:06 PM
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craigo
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Boudreaux,
Thanks for sharing. We always like to tell stories about the OTHER guy who is the idiot. Sometimes it is ME who is stupid, too. I fish an aluminum boat with a 60hp johnson. I flooded the engine and it wouldn't start the other day as I was done fishing and heading back to the ramp. Fortunately, I was only fishing about 1/4 mile away from the ramp, so I just popped the trolling motor on high and zipped over to the ramp, no big deal. As I was loading my boat onto my trailer with trolling motor power I got off center. I yanked my TM out of the water, but my momentum carried the boat right on top of my trailer tail lights which stick up in the air. I busted out the tailight and bent the frame it fastens to. FOrtunately, I was alone and nobody saw it but me and God, but I felt like an IDIOT! Stuff happens out there and sometimes it's ME and not the other guy.
 I don't live for the thump, but I sure do like it.
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: craigo]
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04/14/09 02:26 PM
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Years back when I was in college I had the same guys go fishing with me all of the time. We could un buckle the boat, take the transom saver off, prime the motor, put the plug in, and be launched in less then a minute after getting to the ramp.
One time we did our same routine as always. They pick me up at the boat dock. When I jump in the boat water starts coming up through my floor drain. I ask who put the plug in? The said they put it in the middle hole, the middle livewell drain, not the hull. I killed the motor and went in the lake. I got the plug switched out. 15 miutes later the bilge pump had the boat drained. I still laugh about it. We looked like the idiots that day.
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: craigo]
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04/14/09 02:40 PM
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SKEETER151
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I go fishing alone all the time and crazy stuff happens when your running around like a crazy person cause your just itching to get out there and fish! Once while fishing back home on Big Lake in Louisiana I had a 20 ft Kenner bay boat that was just a pain to launch at a local ramp because the ramp was very shallow and not steep enough. So I would have to back as far back as I could and run the motor pretty fast to get off and pretty much winch myself back on. WELL... I learned the hard way that a strap winch is not a REAL winch. That strap popped and flung the frayed end right at my head cutting my forehead pretty good. I still have the scar on my head from that strap. I bought a ATV winch because of that situation. I got some looks at the ramp with a 2000 pounds winch mounted on the trailer but I never got popped again!
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit!! It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. ARRRRRR....
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: SKEETER151]
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04/14/09 02:53 PM
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SKEETER151
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I was at a redfish tourney in Louisiana and this old timer had a little 16 foot alum with a 15 hp evinrude from like 1920 no trolling motor and a big white ice chest on the bow. He was pulling it with a old cutlas car! He pulled up asked if it was too late to enter the tourney. The guys said sure its $100. Guy paid the cash and went to lauch like he has done it a 1000 times and backed right on in. Some folks were kinda giggling when he pulled off. I was sitting in our boat waiting on my dad chatting with tourney directors. The old guy got into his boat and took off. Then all of a sudden the old guy stopped about 100 yards away on the other side of the river and pulled out his fishing pole and tossed out into the water. He caught his reds in about 15 minutes one after another! Came right on back to the ramp and pulled the boat out and asked the tourney director if he could wiegh-in his fish? He did and he got 3rd place! made 2000 bucks and just left like he knew what he was doing. I never seen anything like that before!! My dad just looked at me and said "see son old people just know more"!!
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit!! It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. ARRRRRR....
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: SKEETER151]
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04/14/09 03:09 PM
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SKEETER151
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I have tons of good ones... I lived in Louisiana for 20 years so I have seen some crazy stuff! ever seen someone back a diesel in the water past the doors and PULL it out without help! We fish some pretty crazy places that theres not even a boat ramp. Sides of canals work pretty good. I saw a guy pulling a boat with a john deer tractor once! Seen trucks under the water because they didnt put the truck in park or set the brake. Some ramps in Louisiana are like 50 yards long because of the tides. So if a truck rolls back on some big ramps it wont stop till its underwater. Then if you dont block the ramp on that side someone will launch their boat and hit the truck pulling off their boat! SEEN IT HAPPEN! A guy left his truck in the water going to get help and when he geets back he sees the comotion around were his truck is. A boat took a chunk off his top cab with a prop. That guy was furious! We just got to the ramp when we saw the comotion and saw the truck when they pulled it out. Wish we had a camera.... seen it too many times!!
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit!! It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. ARRRRRR....
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: SKEETER151]
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04/14/09 03:45 PM
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Goujon
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Launched at Toledo on the La side and was sitting in the boat floating with my trolling motor down gettting my tackle arranged.
A guy in an 53 Chevy and a boat on behind pulls up and backs down on the ramp. He gets out and goes to relieve himself behind a tree when his emergency brake gave up and the whole mess went down into the lake. Needless to say after the shock wore off I had to go back and pull him out. He said "I knew better than that cuase I left my brick chock at home." The launch is better than Walmart to see the circus.
"If this ain't a mess, it will do till one gets here."
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: Goujon]
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04/14/09 03:49 PM
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Manchu
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saw a wife trying to back her hubby into the lake in new mexico.
she was having a hard time backing, jack knifing the trailer a few times with her a hole husband sreaming at her. after the 5th or 6th try, she had enuff of his mouth and put the truck in park, got out and walked off while flipping him off.
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: Manchu]
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04/14/09 04:17 PM
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Immortal13
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Haha Mark, I always advise any new boat owner I know NOT to ever have their wife/girlfriend back their boat in. I have seen too many fights caused by the husband yelling at his wife for not doing it right. It's better to just do the one man fire drill method while she waits in the boat.
I haven't seen anything spectacular happen at a boat ramp yet. Just your usual stuff like a guy chewing up his prop on the ramp, straps left on, plug not in, ect. But as much as I fish and duck hunt I know I'll see something unbelievable sooner or later.
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Re: Things you see at a boat ramp
[Re: Immortal13]
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04/14/09 06:26 PM
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Brandon82
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The only thing I happen to see alot of is peeling out and white smoking tires, so far. 
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