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[stlfisher]

Mine isn't so much stupid as it is funny.

About 7-8 years I had gone out with this gal bout 5 or 6 times and she was a real knock out. She was super nice, but she was a complete an utter bonehead. We decided to go on a float trip with a few of my college buddies

Almost immediately she started complaining. She freaked out when her feet touched the bottom of the river, when she got wet, and she kept trying to stand up in the canoe nearly tipping it over. She called animals by the wrong names and generally was completely out of her element.

Toward the end of the trip were are approaching a section with some overhanging branches. I yell duck! She completely freaks out and yells "It is in the boat." as she jumps up like she saw a spider or something. I yell back "Watch...." To late as I watch her get smoked by a tree branch and overboard she goes. She pops up screaming and I am laughing so hard I nearly tip the canoe. She just looks at me and says "oh duck".

That was the last time we ever hung out.

[Flysmallie]

Thats freaking hilarious.

[Jason R.]

Wow, that might be the best one stlfisher. I think yall heard mine in my "Lost Flyrod" thread... I also had my dad launch me out off the ramp with no plug when I was really little. As he parked the truck, I yelled "I'm sinking!!" in my little kid voice and my dad didn't believe me... I was, in fact, sinking. Almost lost that jonboat before he could pull it out.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Some of this reminds me about my son and grandson going fishing many years ago. He launched the boat and intended to start fishing close to the ramp. as he puttered along my GS ask if there was suppose to be water in the back of the boat. Of course son said yes there was always some water back there. A little bit later my GS says it looks like a lot of water, but sons say "yes" sometimes there can be a lot. GS says like up on the floor? Son looks, remembers drain plug and manages to coax boat back to the ramp and get the plug in.

[Mitch f]

Wow, that might be the best one stlfisher. I think yall heard mine in my "Lost Flyrod" thread... I also had my dad launch me out off the ramp with no plug when I was really little. As he parked the truck, I yelled "I'm sinking!!" in my little kid voice and my dad didn't believe me... I was, in fact, sinking. Almost lost that jonboat before he could pull it out.

I'm surprised your dad didn't yell in his best german accent "What are you sinking about?"

I know I know bad joke

[cfox]

Well... there was that one time i was in a big hurry to get the boat back on the trailer cause everybody was waiting to launch so I just drove the boat on the trailer and didn't hook up the winch rope thinking I'll just pull it up into the parking lot and get out of everybodys way. I'd done that a time or two at other ramps but this ramp was just a smidge steeper so I jump in the truck, hit the gas and dump the boat right there on the ramp. I thought about just driving off and leaving it there I was so embarrassed. The guys that helped me put it back on the trailer were more amused than irritated, but still, you know...

[LarrySTL]

I have done the drain plug deal twice. Once, which was almost a real problem, was on the Mississippi River at Bowling Green MO on the MO side. There is a muni ramp with a tiny wooden dock....and a railroad track between there and any place you can park. Yes, I forgot the drain plug, launched, stuck The New Guy in the boat...and went to park the truck. Immediately a train came along ,...and then I stood around for 5 or 10 minutes for the train to go by so I could get back to the boat. Also the current was really ripping along at that little dock. Fortunately the NG figured out the problem, found the bilge pumps and turned both of them on, so he was gaining on the flood when I got back to the boat.

Funniest/worst I have ever seen ( I was only a fascinated spectator) Cape Fair dock on TR ages ago. Father of a friend of mine had a boat with a 2 inch ball on the trailer, but his truck wouldnt start, so he borrowed some other guys truck to use to launch. but it had the smaller ball on the hitch. He goes down the ramp fast...pops the brakes....jumps the ball off the hitch and the boat shoots out into the lake..still strapped to the trailer. Its floating. Its also about 50 feet from shore. Somebody grabs it and pulls it back as close as it will get to the shore. The boat owner jumps in, starts the motor, backs the whole shebang about 20 feet farther offshore....undoes the transom tiedowns, and while we all screamed at him, unsnapped the bow strap. Blub...blub.... blub...as the trailer sank and the little trail of bubbles drew a line out into the middle of the cove as the trailer rolled, underwater, deeper and deeper. This was in the days of flasher locators. It took him several hours that afternoon dragging a big magnet and about a 15 lg anchor slowly around to finally snag and retrieve, his trailer.

[Al Agnew]

Back many years ago when Wappapello Lake still had a lot of stumps, and the normal level was two or three feet lower than it is now, it was very important to run in the channel, because if you strayed out of it you were very likely to hit a stump, even in the lower portions of the lake. The channel was marked with red and green buoys, and the knowledgeable people stayed in it while running fast. But there were always people, usually in speedboats, that didn't think they had to pay attention. In the lower part of the lake, the water filled the valley from hillside to hillside, but there were many low islands. In one spot, the channel came down the left bank along the hillside, then cut straight across the flooded valley. There was a row of islands going across the lake just on the downstream side of the channel, with wide gaps in between each island. And the center gap was much wider than the rest, in fact considerably wider than the gap on the other side of the valley where the channel cut through. So this wide gap just looked like it should be the way to go. Problem was, it was only about four feet deep, and it happened to have one massive stump in the exact center of the gap. We fished those islands a lot, and every time we'd see a big speedboat coming down the lake, we'd make bets on whether it would take the gap, and if so whether it would hit the stump. We saw several spectacular crashes that included people being thrown out of the boat and lower units broken off, and even had to fish a couple of people out of the water. It was pretty entertaining. The Corps finally put a warning buoy next to the stump.

[fishinwrench]

Saw a bassboat hit a pillar of the grand glaize bridge once, luckily it was only at a fast idle speed but it still crunched pretty hard destroying the trolling motor and the whole nose of the boat back to about 2 feet.

I assume that he was putting along jacking with his electronics and just forgot there was a 2000 ton piece of concrete in the vicinity.

Dude, if you're reading this I really felt bad for ya.... but I gotta confess that I laughed about that off and on all day. Sorry but WTF? LOL

[LarrySTL]

>on the Mississippi River at Bowling Green MO on the MO side<

OOPS

Turn right at Bowling Green and keep going to the Mississippi which is at Louisiana MO.

Al, I have seen ( or at night heard) people do that same thing on Table Rock both at the gap between Point 9 at the mouth of the James and the island out there, and the gap on the west side of the island above Cape Fair at Virgin Bluff. At just the right water levels both those spots can look like there is 100 feet of water there.