I started a thread about a month ago, on ,"What was the strangest thing you have seen on the water"..the responses were great and I love reading them, I would like to hear some of the funniest things that may have happened to you or someone with you while at the DOCK, or on the BOAT and out FISHING. I am sure that there must alot of funny things to share with us all.
What is the funniest thing that has ever happened?
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Today a couple of friends of mine, whom most of us know out here ,went fishing, they did quite well I was told. Back at the dock they take the fish out to be cleaned, while putting the fish on the fillet table, the fish decided it wasn't his time and don't ya know, it flips off the fillet table, the first thing was to try to grab the fish, and guess what happened next. THAT'S right, him and fish fell into the water, then to make matters even funnier, his friend tries to grab him, slips and falls on top of him in the water, " THEY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE TWO MATING MANITEES IN THE WATER". I am still laughing at this because the KING and TOOL went for a swim, and the TOG got away...HAHAHAHAHAHA SO LET'S HEAR SOME OF THE FUNNIEST STORIES GUYS. I am sure that there are many out there to be told.....we all can use a good laugh.
Well, my wife seems to think it was the time we were fluke drifting, and I set my pole down for a moment. Either a fish struck or the rig snagged bottom.....and over went the pole. Fortunately, I had another pole rigged up, and I could just calmly cast it and entangle the overboard pole. Unfortunately, the reel was one of those thumbscrew Penns, and it was loose. When I casted it, the thumbscrew came off, and the frame and spool went overboard.
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Hey Diann,You ask toooo many questions...lol
Well,this ain't a fishing story.
This is a ski-bob story.
Back in 1991,We were using the opriginal FISHOLOGIST,a 23' Sea Ox walk around,to pull our friend Jimmy on the ski bob.Jimmy dared us to dump him.I tried various maneuvers to throw him off with no success.The my wife Elsie had an idea.She grabbed the 50'tow rope,and started "reeling"him in.When Jimmy was brought to about 5' from the boat,she let go.Needless to say,Jimmy went into the drink.
Now he knows better than to dare my wife.
Pete
Hey Diann,You ask toooo many questions...lol
Well,this ain't a fishing story.
This is a ski-bob story.
Back in 1991,We were using the opriginal FISHOLOGIST,a 23' Sea Ox walk around,to pull our friend Jimmy on the ski bob.Jimmy dared us to dump him.I tried various maneuvers to throw him off with no success.The my wife Elsie had an idea.She grabbed the 50'tow rope,and started "reeling"him in.When Jimmy was brought to about 5' from the boat,she let go.Needless to say,Jimmy went into the drink.
Now he knows better than to dare my wife.
Pete
Okay, here goes. Two guys drunk as skunks are at the beach, and the bass have the bait penned up against the outflow I fish. One guy has a very whippy rod, with a 1.5-ounce striper swiper tied to it. In his excitement over the school of feeding fish, he makes an overhand cast, as hard as humanly possible. The plug smacks into his skull and the hooks dig in. As if that was not enough, the guy runs howling down the beach, holding the bent rod in front of himself, keeping pressure on the line. I still can't figure out why the line was tight - unless the moron forgot to open the bail.
Once i went to the Islip marina to have some lunch and watched some guy bury his car completely under water. The funny part was seeing his boat floating on top of the car. It was funny for me to see but definately not for him. I quietly left the area to enjoy the rest of my lunch.
My Funniest Experience
This is my most memorable and NOW funny thing that has happened. We were out in Ambrose Channel fishing one day last year. There must have been at least 150 boats out there. As we were drifting we noticed everyone moving and figured that they were moving up the line to start a new drift. These people are waving to us and waving and being nice we waved back, I turned to my husband and asked him, DO YOU KNOW THEM? he said NO, I then asked my friend Mark that was with us if he knew them, he said NO, so here we are saying, well none of us know them but here we all are waving to each other, then we happened to turn around and realized that the reason that they were waving to us was because there was a BIG FREIGHTER maybe 200 feet off our bow, well that scared the #&*@ out of us, lines still in the water we said, BOAT DON'T FAIL ME NOW..we got out of there really fast. Still till this day we laugh how we all stood there waving at each other. No ,the freighter never blew his horns, we had no idea that he was anywhere near us. Like I said, it wasn't funny then, but boy can we laugh about it now. Talking about close calls. WHEEWWWWW....
Then just recently my husband and I are out there fishing, a few boats passed us, didn't thinking anything about it, we got rocked from side to side really bad, I hear this scraping noise like something sliding from one side to the other and the next thing I knew my husband was on his ass. YES FOLKS the chair, the famous chair, slid from one side to the other and then collapse and there he sat. I turned and looked to see him sitting on the floor scatching his head...WHAT THE **** WAS THAT????
Then there was the time, out of nowhere the cooler slid back and forth, and once again we hear this ba thump, we turned around and there sat Capt. Jan twisted like a pretzel in the corner of the boat. Looking and laughing so hard, he said, UM..WHEN YOU GUYS ARE FINISHED laughing at me, do you think you could help me up? Did we help him up...NO...had to leave him there for a few more precious moments.
This is my most memorable and NOW funny thing that has happened. We were out in Ambrose Channel fishing one day last year. There must have been at least 150 boats out there. As we were drifting we noticed everyone moving and figured that they were moving up the line to start a new drift. These people are waving to us and waving and being nice we waved back, I turned to my husband and asked him, DO YOU KNOW THEM? he said NO, I then asked my friend Mark that was with us if he knew them, he said NO, so here we are saying, well none of us know them but here we all are waving to each other, then we happened to turn around and realized that the reason that they were waving to us was because there was a BIG FREIGHTER maybe 200 feet off our bow, well that scared the #&*@ out of us, lines still in the water we said, BOAT DON'T FAIL ME NOW..we got out of there really fast. Still till this day we laugh how we all stood there waving at each other. No ,the freighter never blew his horns, we had no idea that he was anywhere near us. Like I said, it wasn't funny then, but boy can we laugh about it now. Talking about close calls. WHEEWWWWW....
Then just recently my husband and I are out there fishing, a few boats passed us, didn't thinking anything about it, we got rocked from side to side really bad, I hear this scraping noise like something sliding from one side to the other and the next thing I knew my husband was on his ass. YES FOLKS the chair, the famous chair, slid from one side to the other and then collapse and there he sat. I turned and looked to see him sitting on the floor scatching his head...WHAT THE **** WAS THAT????
Then there was the time, out of nowhere the cooler slid back and forth, and once again we hear this ba thump, we turned around and there sat Capt. Jan twisted like a pretzel in the corner of the boat. Looking and laughing so hard, he said, UM..WHEN YOU GUYS ARE FINISHED laughing at me, do you think you could help me up? Did we help him up...NO...had to leave him there for a few more precious moments.
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It was my first trip out on my buddy's new boat and we were heading out for some early season sharking. There was my friend, his brother, his father, and me. After a long and unrewarding day, during which there was more than a little arguing between the brothers, we decide to head back in. The Dad turns to me and says "tie that chum pot up so it doesn't slide around." "Like this?" I ask. "No, to that there." Well, it didn't look very secure, but I did it anyway, and off we went. It wasn't too secure, and after a short while goes sliding off into the water, bouncing and skipping along in our wake. I shout, my friend powers down all at once, the chum bucket hits the wake hard, comes flying up, and lands open end down on my shoulders. Yeah, head to toe chumshower. I didn't really laugh much, but they sure did. I think it might have been the best part of the trip for them.
On a side note, this thread might just as well have been called "what's the stupidest thing you've ever seen while fishing?" since they amount to pretty much the same. It would have been pretty funny to watch the drunken loudmouths on the Capt Bob in Mattituck drop not one, not two, but THREE rods in the soup while fluking, but then, they were boat rods, so it was a little more sad than funny.
It was my first trip out on my buddy's new boat and we were heading out for some early season sharking. There was my friend, his brother, his father, and me. After a long and unrewarding day, during which there was more than a little arguing between the brothers, we decide to head back in. The Dad turns to me and says "tie that chum pot up so it doesn't slide around." "Like this?" I ask. "No, to that there." Well, it didn't look very secure, but I did it anyway, and off we went. It wasn't too secure, and after a short while goes sliding off into the water, bouncing and skipping along in our wake. I shout, my friend powers down all at once, the chum bucket hits the wake hard, comes flying up, and lands open end down on my shoulders. Yeah, head to toe chumshower. I didn't really laugh much, but they sure did. I think it might have been the best part of the trip for them.
On a side note, this thread might just as well have been called "what's the stupidest thing you've ever seen while fishing?" since they amount to pretty much the same. It would have been pretty funny to watch the drunken loudmouths on the Capt Bob in Mattituck drop not one, not two, but THREE rods in the soup while fluking, but then, they were boat rods, so it was a little more sad than funny.
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