Strange but true… at the ramp!

The story I have took place on Bald Eagle ramp before it was re-done. Even then, there was room for two trailers at a time, but this group of about 6-8 people had their rig right in the middle of the ramp on a busy afternoon, and were attempting to load a very new pro-v on a roller trailer. The driver backed the trailer down the ramp until the winch post reached the front of the still floating boat. The boat was hooked up and winched tight,and as three guys standing in the water on each side of the boat pushed back and forth, the driver would slowly pull ahead untill the trailer started coming out. After many attempts to get the boat to settle properly onto the trailer they finally got the thing loaded, and out of the way. I’ve never before or since seen a boat loaded that way, but they would have rated a pretty “good”? score.

i might not qualify, because i actually heard this second hand, but did manage to verify that it was true.

2 of my co-workers were attempting to trailer their boat at sand point ramp on prior lake. as they were winching it up they noticed a young girl attempting to back a new jeep cherokee and trailer down the ramp next to them. they then noticed her boyfriend out in a new ranger yelling at her. finally, after numerous unsuccessfull attempts, the boyfriend docked the boat, took her place and told her to drive the boat up the trailer. he backed in the trailer and told her to hit it.

well, she did. she gunned the boat, right up on the trailer and into the window on the back of the jeep.

needless to say, my co-workers were doing the best they could to keep from laughing their rear ends off – but the tongue lashing the young girl received from the boyfriend helped sober up the situation

Well here’s the poll to determine the winners. Anyone and everyone is welcome to vote and the winner gets a season launch pass, donated by Everts Resort, located on Pool 4 near Red Wing, MN plus a $25 tackle pack from B-Fish-N Lure Co., owned by Dave Hoggard.

So here’s how this is going to work…. Read back through the posts and when you get done, drop down here to this post at the end and vote for your favorite! I copied all the stories posted on FTL, our sister site, over to this thread active on FTR to avoid any extra jumping around to read all the posts.

We’ll let this poll run until midnight next Sunday (November 25) so some of our less frequent visitors can get involved as well.

The names/handles of those that contributed an entry to our little contest appear to the left of their respectives stories and those names/handles are included in our poll exactly as they appeared next to their stories to avoid any possible confusion.

Also, EFN Pro-Staffers aren’t eligible to win our top prize so their entries aren’t included in the poll.

Well, I read and wonder. Don’t want to jinx a first load, but I thought this was funny.

We’re fishing a little lake that has pretty limited access and is located on the Sauk River. The river empties right next to the ramp and changes often. This year, due to the odd amounts of runoff, the direction changed and put a sandbar out in front of the boat ramp. The sandbar spread out and created a little channel that was the only access to the ramp for most of the summer. It was the only way in or out of the lake and made getting TO the ramp sort of a chore.

We fished until nearly dark and then decided to troll our way up to the ramp, staying well to the side. As we approached, a fiberglass gullwing runabout loaded with a very large man, his extremely large wife and his son decided to race us to the ramp. I guess he figured that he’d show off a bit. We were nearly to the channel and I saw him gun the boat in order to cut us off. I don’t know what went through his head as he veered directly toward the dock in the half light and put the boat into high gear, racing fast straight at the middle of the sandbar.

Up went the boat, heavy as it was and right onto the sandbar. The wife and son went tumbling forward into the front and disappeared. The guy just sat there, holding onto the steering wheel as his boat lodged in about 2 inches of water, most of the hull sitting out where it shouldn’t have been. I was doubled over trying not to let them see me laugh, my stomach cramped from the effort. Tears were rolling down my face. My lady was just in shock.

I looked up as four hands came up onto the gunwhale and slowly pulled up two heads, the wife’s and the kid’s. The guy still just sat there, apparently still in complete shock. I’ll never forget the scene and to this day laugh about it. Of course, the motor stopped. Full speed to zero in one second. No sound except water running around the boat.

We finally pulled him off the bar with our little 25 horse and a lot of pushing. To thank us for our kindness, he let us unload first and then I helped him to get his boat onto his own trailer. What a sight! Still laughing as I right this.

Mike Little

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and you’ll never see him again.