09-21-2003, 07:06 PM
[cool]Hey, Mr. H., glad you were able to improvise. Necessity is a mother...or something like that.
Didn't even occur to me that this could turn into a thread on the bad experiences we have had over the years. What fun.
Like most fishermen with some "seasoning", I have plenty of tales of woe and disaster. Many involve forgetting vital tackle or other things for the trip. My worst disaster was on a trip with a first time fishing buddy...flyfishing with a new flyrod I had just built.
We had just driven about six hours to get to the targeted fishin' hole. It was beautiful, and the fish were already rising...in the early morning after an all night drive. I strung my new rod and propped it over against a tree to keep it out of the way while I put on my waders. When I wasn't looking, my new fishing buddy picked up the rod to look at it and then propped it up against the truck. You guessed it. I watched in horror as a little puff of wind simultaneously blew my rod and the closing truck door together.
My new rod was snapped in two places...and was the only rod I brought. The guy who caused it said it was my fault and was miffed when I packed everything up to go back home. He wanted me to wait around for him while he went fishing. He was lucky he got back in the truck and kept his mouth shut for the entire return trip. Needless to say, the first time was his last.
I try to keep a ckecklist of the things I need on standard trips, and add to it for special trips. But, that has not kept me from leaving stuff behind. On my first tubing trip to one of the Arizona lakes a few years ago, I drove to the lake, launched my tube, started to rig one of my rods with something appropriate for the early spring conditions...and NO LURE BOXES. I had left them sitting on my tool bench in the garage and had not stuffed them into the poskets on my tube.
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Didn't even occur to me that this could turn into a thread on the bad experiences we have had over the years. What fun.
Like most fishermen with some "seasoning", I have plenty of tales of woe and disaster. Many involve forgetting vital tackle or other things for the trip. My worst disaster was on a trip with a first time fishing buddy...flyfishing with a new flyrod I had just built.
We had just driven about six hours to get to the targeted fishin' hole. It was beautiful, and the fish were already rising...in the early morning after an all night drive. I strung my new rod and propped it over against a tree to keep it out of the way while I put on my waders. When I wasn't looking, my new fishing buddy picked up the rod to look at it and then propped it up against the truck. You guessed it. I watched in horror as a little puff of wind simultaneously blew my rod and the closing truck door together.
My new rod was snapped in two places...and was the only rod I brought. The guy who caused it said it was my fault and was miffed when I packed everything up to go back home. He wanted me to wait around for him while he went fishing. He was lucky he got back in the truck and kept his mouth shut for the entire return trip. Needless to say, the first time was his last.
I try to keep a ckecklist of the things I need on standard trips, and add to it for special trips. But, that has not kept me from leaving stuff behind. On my first tubing trip to one of the Arizona lakes a few years ago, I drove to the lake, launched my tube, started to rig one of my rods with something appropriate for the early spring conditions...and NO LURE BOXES. I had left them sitting on my tool bench in the garage and had not stuffed them into the poskets on my tube.
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