Can you really swim that far. Are you real sure???

[fishinwrench]

19 minutes ago, Old plug said:

 I got to wonder about this island MESSING AROUND. It must have been quite interesting to make a young Billethead miss his boat drifting away. 

If I was stuck on an island I'd want it to be with someone like Marty.  Definitely not with someone who I had to worry they might fall off their log.  🤣

😎

[Old plug]

4 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm trying to remember the last time I was just doing WHATEVER and suddenly just lost my legs and fell over.   Not even while roller skating stone blind drunk.  But yet I'm a fool and a jackass for not being concerned about falling off the deck of my bass boat?   

😃

 

That another thing I got to be careful of I have fell twice this year. Getting from the  rear deck of a bsss boat down onto he seats and floor. When ?I am back there looking down just does not look right. Suppose that is part of the 80 yrs coming soon.

[BilletHead]

28 minutes ago, Old plug said:

 I got to wonder about this island MESSING AROUND. It must have been quite interesting to make a young Billethead miss his boat drifting away. 

           Hey Old Plug! 

   Mrs. BilletHead is blushing 

 BiletHead

[Deadstream]

21 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

roller skating stone blind drunk.

Wow.  Thought I was the only one

[Al Agnew]

Except for Wrench, as we get older we begin to realize we aren't invulnerable.  I still don't wear a PFD a lot of times when I probably should, especially in the winter.  Never wear one during the summer when I'm in the canoe.  But I finally wised up and wear one in the canoe in colder weather.  Doesn't take much to get you wet in a canoe on moving water, and often it's a long way to the take-out.

It's amazing how easy it is to lose your balance and fall overboard when you're standing up fishing from any kind of watercraft we usually use around here, except for the big boats on LOZ.  I don't know how many times I've seen the boat very SLOWLY drifting into a log or rock, and think I've set myself to keep my balance when it hits, and then nearly been knocked out of the boat.

 

[BilletHead]

14 minutes ago, Old plug said:

That another thing I got to be careful of I have fell twice this year. Getting from the  rear deck of a bsss boat down onto he seats and floor. When ?I am back there looking down just does not look right. Suppose that is part of the 80 yrs coming soon.

            Well Old Plug I hate to tell you but this is pretty normal for your age. I will compare you to my Uncle John who is 80 if not a bit more. He comes twice a year. Spring and Fall. Hauls his boat from the Illinois side of St Louis. He wants to fish while he is here. Most of the time with my 70 year old cousin I am the young one at 60. Well sometimes I draw the straw and Uncle and I fish together. Scary man scary. He looses his balance and falls. One time we used my boat. I let him drive it on the trailer I stop and ask him if he wants off at the ramp. No Ill ride up in the boat. So John want help getting out in parking lot? No I got it he says. I turned around and heard a crash and ooooooof sound. There is uncle John on the ground all scraped up and bleeding all over the place. Glad I had a roll of paper towels to clean him up. We will all be there sooner or later. 

BilletHead

[Devan S.]

There a tons of options for paddle/whitewater style pfd's out on the market. While they wont be as minimal as the inflatable style they are certainly better than the style you would buy at wally world. They also don't come with the what-if it doesn't go off concern. 

 

[Old plug]

11 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

            Well Old Plug I hate to tell you but this is pretty normal for your age. I will compare you to my Uncle John who is 80 if not a bit more. He comes twice a year. Spring and Fall. Hauls his boat from the Illinois side of St Louis. He wants to fish while he is here. Most of the time with my 70 year old cousin I am the young one at 60. Well sometimes I draw the straw and Uncle and I fish together. Scary man scary. He looses his balance and falls. One time we used my boat. I let him drive it on the trailer I stop and ask him if he wants off at the ramp. No Ill ride up in the boat. So John want help getting out in parking lot? No I got it he says. I turned around and heard a crash and ooooooof sound. There is uncle John on the ground all scraped up and bleeding all over the place. Glad I had a roll of paper towels to clean him up. We will all be there sooner or later. 

BilletHead

I am not that bad yet. Hope i die before i get to that point. I am pretty active and do get on the lake weekdays every evening and only fell twice. It could have been worse. I hate to see the end of it coming. I just want to stretch it out a few more years  I might to if I stay away from that dog of wrench's he likes nothing better to knock me all over the kitchen

[fishinwrench]

37 minutes ago, Al Agnew said:

Except for Wrench, as we get older we begin to realize we aren't invulnerable.

I never claimed invulnerability, I just have a reasonable amount of confidence that I'm not gonna do something stupid and get myself killed.   I mean it's worked for 55 years so far.  

If I had hydraulic steering on my bass boat, drove like a madman, and didn't wanna secure my batteries proper then I'd be a lot more religious with my PFD wearing.  As it is I put it on when I feel things might get sketchy ... and thankfully that isn't all that often.

In a sense wearing ultimate safety equipment all the time might lead you to believe that you don't have to pay very close attention to WTF you are doing, or what you are drifting towards.  The most important piece of safety equipment is your brain.  As long as that part is working like it should then the rest is pretty much useless. 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm trying to remember the last time I was just doing WHATEVER and suddenly just lost my legs and fell over.   Not even while roller skating stone blind drunk.  But yet I'm a fool and a jackass for not being concerned about falling off the deck of my bass boat?   

😃

 

I can Ollie a skateboard while drunk. Lol.