That's One Way to Lose a Tournament

[abkeenan]

8 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Beck and I were fishing a derby with the float-fly.  I probably told this story on myself before, but we both hooked up on our first cast.  We had two keeps flopping in the bottom of the boat.  I jumped down and unhooked them both and started to weigh and put bouys in them.  He cast back out and swung another one in the boat, before I could even breath he did it again and we had 4 keeps, for me to get into the wells and marked.  He then swung another one in.  This is in a 3 to 5 minute stretch.  He said, "cull that one with the bad eye, I hate the way he looks, I don't care what he weighs."  I was starting to get rid of him and he throws a 6th. fish in the boat.  I had the bad eyed fish in one hand and the smallest fish in the other and just threw them both back, giving us only 4. Did not really matter as we culled the entire bunch, but it was hilarious to him and embarrassing to me at the time. 

Funny how the brain works when you are preoccupied or flustered. Like throwing a pair of perfectly good pliers overboard into the water instead of the 13" fish in your other hand. Or walking around your house asking where the heck is my cell phone or car keys and they are in your hand. Doh!

[bluebasser86]

On 8/4/2016 at 4:47 PM, abkeenan said:

Funny how the brain works when you are preoccupied or flustered. Like throwing a pair of perfectly good pliers overboard into the water instead of the 13" fish in your other hand. Or walking around your house asking where the heck is my cell phone or car keys and they are in your hand. Doh!

This made me laugh because I "released" a pair of braid scissors a few weeks ago. I'd actually just finished tying a bait on, snipped my line, toss the bait in the compartment where the scissors go and threw the scissors over the side