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recurve shooter:
well over the last year i have sank my jon boat in the river....twice. it seems like every time we head out for any kind of adventure, it gets cold and rainy. we fished all day satturday down aroud the lake, and this morning up river a ways, and caught a grand total of two eals. we always end up wet, cold, unsucessful, but most importantly, happy. yeah, even though everything that can go wrong seems to, we always have a ball. things going wrong just makes it more interesting, makes ya think a little more and work a little harder, and after a while, you get used to it and just go with it. lol. we still have good days but the vast majority is pretty rough. it just amazes me that in conditions that most people wouldnt even think about taking on, we head out and always have fun no matter how bad it goes. I just thing as long as your alive, healthy, and enjoying nature, weather at her best or worst, a good humored fella can always have a little fun. just wanted to put this out cuz i know you guys know where im coming from with this.  ;D

johnston:
Folks who measure success by how many they caught or killed have always seemed to me a pain in the ass. I have better memories of the bad times than I do of the good. But then, its all good!

Lane

cracker:
I'm with you guys just a few weeks ago I was playin in the river  and managed to fall out of the boat motor kept running boat took off without me rope fell off the front wrapped around the prop and stopped the whole shinanigan my buddy had to rescue me in his boat. My boat was still cutting donuts down the river at the time just as he got his cell out to catch som footage the rope got cought on the prop and stopped it. Had a ball. Ron

stickbender:

     Recurve, are you putting bait on your hooks?  You can't catch fish, while fishing on credit. ;) ;D  Sunk your john boat .....twice.... ::)  Did you make a note to yourself not to do what you did to sink the boat again?  Ron, I think you and Recurve need to get together, and go on a little fishing trip, and let your Buddy, film it.  Be good for You Tube series.  8)  ;D  Well smoked eel is good.  A little Teriyaki sauce, or the sweet sticky sauce they use in the sushi restaurants, which is half soy sauce, and half sugar boiled down to a syrup.  That on smoked eel....Mmmmmm!  Well at least you had fun, and that is goal of going there in the first place.  Or at least it should be.  Uh, how did you sink your John boat ......twice? ::)  How many people, and what weight is it designed for?  You know....... they put that info on those little aluminum tags, for a reason...... oh, and if there are two or more people in the boat, and one gets a fish on, or sees something interesting on his side, it is not a good idea for everyone to rush over to one side to see.......  Just a few little nautical hints there.  Oh, if a cotton mouth should drop in the boat, while passing under a tree limb, just lift if out with the oar, don't unload your shotgun on to it, while it is still in the boat.   ;)  Oh, and don't try putting a sail on the boat, by knocking a hole in the bottom, and sticking a broom stick in it for a mast.  ;)  Uh...... when you sunk the boat twice...... was it by the same method?  I think you need to get some bulk Styrofoam, or a few cans of expanding foam, and block off the space under the seat, and bow, and fill em up with foam.  At least you will be able to paddle home....... ;D


                                                                                      Wayne

recurve shooter:
lol well obviously someone finds it funny.  ::)

welll the first time i sank it it was about this time last year, but it was a shorter twelve foot boat with my little extremly old merc 6 horse on it, with a little TMA in it. TMA meaning Too Much......well you can figure it out. there were 3 guys in it that time, the smallest weighing 250, the second weighing 300, and the biggest, me, weighing 350. it worked fine till my motor started, then when i gassed it the front end scooped under the surface and the boat just kinda torpedoed out from under us. we are all sitting there like where did the boat go???? lol.

the second time was about 3 weeks ago. Iv been dating my incredible girlfriend for about 9 months (yeah this is where everyone goes "aw no....noooo you didnt!!!" yes, i did.) i finally got her to come fishing with me, after 9 months. so she came. and everything went great for most of the trip. caught a few fish, had a few laughs, it was nice. then, coming back, about a quarter mile from the launch i was shifting my weight around in the bottom of the boat to get it to flatten out on top of the watter better and wasnt watching where i was running, and hit a sunken tree top. there were some big branches angleing away from us (thank god. you dont have to tell me what could have happened here.) at about a 40 degree angle. my little boat ran right up them and slid back in backwards, under watter. so before the little boat sank i grabbed her and her life jacket and slapped it on her and pulled her out and sat her on the log we hit, and got her to shimmy back up it to the bank, me following her to make sure she was ok. when i got her to the bank and convinced her that we wernt gunna die, she didnt need to call the cops and tell them to send a rescue boat, and that there was a pre school maby 400 yards through the woods behind her if we had to get out of there, i got her to sit still and i went back in. un hooked my outboard, trolling motor, and took everything out of the boat and droped it to the bottom (only about 8 foot deep) then drug the boat up onto the log upside down, stood on the log beside it and flippe it right side up, and slid it back off in the watter, dove down to my motors on the bottom and tied to my motors and pulled them up, threw them in the boat, collected what of our floating stuff i could, threw it in the boat, and took off swiming after the paddle that was drifting away so i could get us back in the boat and paddle back up to the truck, when some ole boys passed on their way in for the night, and gave us a ride and my boat a tow back. i knew how to handle it, and had it under controll, but she was not happy with me at all, and i wasnt happy with myself for putting her in that kind of trouble that i could have prevented. but all in all it came out ok.

oh and WHOEVER MADE ME THAT RR SPIKE TOMAHAWK, I NEED ANOTHER. MINE IS ON BOTTOM OF RIVER. lol.

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