Fishing Forum

Yup, another adventure. I went out this morning to check a couple of places that looked great on the Navionics map on my computer, but they didn't exist (poo). Instead I went over to one of drumking's bluffs to map a deep hole nearby. In the process, I got just a wee bit too close to the rock point on the lower end of the bluff and discovered (dk probably could have told me) that there is a mostly-hidden rock that is 2 inches shallower than the draft of my boat. I managed to run up on it at about 3 mph with the motor in idle, so not a big deal - I'd just back off of it. WRONG.<br /><br />Full throttle in reverse and rocking the boat resulted in nothing more than 30 or 40 gallons of water over the transom and an even heavier boat stuck on a dam rock (well, I really wasn't near the dam, so I could be mistaken). Of course, there was no one nearby to rescue me, so the only course of action seemed to involve someone getting wet. Unfortunately, I was the only someone available for the task. I thought about stripping, but I gagged myself just thinking about what I look like naked. I decided to unload my pockets and go in dressed. After carefully calculating the visibility of the water, I decided that there was a rock that was about 3 feet deep that I could step out onto. Seems my calculations could have been a bit better - the water was 5 foot 9 inches, and I was standing there looking like a frog with just my nostrils and eyeballs sticking out above the water. Cuss words under water sound amazingly like "glub".<br /><br />It took some doing, but the boat, being considerably lighter with my fuzzy butt no longer in it, finally slid off of the pointy dam rock (again, I could be mistaken) and I managed to haul my carcass back into it. Two days ago Spurhunter offered me a boarding ladder that he just took off of his boat to put on a swim platform, and I was pleased to accept. Guess I should've run over and gotten it right then......................<br /><br />Once I took the boat out of the water I checked for damage. I'm pretty sure the CLEAN gouge must be the most recent one.<br /><br />Oh, I caught one eight pound blue cat, so this really is a fishing report.<br /><br />No pics of the fish, me soaked to the bone, or that dam rock.<br /><br /><br />