Skippin’ Docks. - Mississippi River – Bass - Mississippi River – Bass

Hahahaha! Ya.. I’ve had days like that. Fishing is way toooo funny sometimes especially after the fact when you get a chance to cool off and look back at it. Its particularly bad when the day starts out with a minor disaster either doesn’t improve or goes down hill from their. Minor disasters always seem to come schooled never a loan roamer hahah.

Years ago I was fishing a tournament on local with a guy I’d met in my first MN State Tournament. We got along great during the tournament and caught fish ta boot so he called me and asked if I wanted to fish a tournament on his home lake. I hadn’t ridden in a real bass boat till the State tournament so I was pumped to fish with him again. I get to the landing at 4:30 am its 39 degrees out and the steam is not rising from the water (it was the lower 40s). He gets to the lake and he sees right away that I have my adrenaline pumping over amped to fish… you know what I mean… excited to the point you do really stupid things like can’t find your sunglasses cause they’re on your head… anyway. He laughed and said “you excited?” I said “of course!! I can’t wait. Aren’t you?” He says ” a little but I’ve fished alot of tournaments here” and he laughed. He hands me the boat rope and tells me to stand on the dock to swing the boat around soon as it pops off the trailer. I follow directions of course… I’m the rookie he’s the basspro in my eyes. He backs up the truck pops the brakes … boat doesnt move…. He sticks his head out and laughs sorry I forgot to unhook the boat… He takes the hook off and repeats the procedure and the boat doesnt move. I’m waiting jittery and over amped for the tournament just can’t wait to get going kind of attitude and he backs up again… nothing… He’s cussing and swearing so I figure ok… walk down the dock and go push the boat off… He gives the truck hell slams on the brakes. The safety chain to the boat breaks it flies off the trailer the tow rope tightens and Im perfectly horizontal traveling at about 20 mph out to sea hahahaha. Im in rain gear and bibs (cloth anchor) trying to swim to the 4 ft area and finally get there my voice is now 2 octaves higher… the onlookers give me a round of applause and give my partner all kinds of crap. He helps me get drained and gave me a spare set of bibs to wear. We jump in the boat no keys… he goes to get his keys and while he’s away the auto bilge starts… no plug in hahahaha We get our boat checked, he arrives realizes whats happened, runs back and gets his truck we put it back on the trailer, the field blasts off, we get the water out the plug in and finally take off. We are using crankbaits… he has one on his rod an one he decided to use so he walks up front rod under his arm puts the one he’s going to use on his bump seat and drops the trolling motor down… the trolling motor never stops cause the brace came unscrewed so its hanging by the cables… Im trying not to laugh cause its so ridiculous… he’s cussing pulling up the trolling motor by the cables. I’m looking for something that will work to tighten the brace and I see the screw and handle sitting on the floor. I tell him I’ll grab it and he says ok and sits on the bump seat…. His eyes get the size of silver dollars LMAO his butt is firmly attatched to the Bomber 8A with over size trebles and the bump seat. To make a long story short… we ended the day pulling the treble hooks out of his rump with a needle nose pliers, got the trolling motor fixed, lost a reel handle into the water and ended up in 5th place… what a day hahahaha.

I’ve had a few funnier but none that started out quite that way hahaha.

Curt