Stories from "THE BONEHEAD CHRONICLES"

Billy Tillamook · 02-17-2004, 03:24 PM

Since I just bared one of my many "Bonehead" moves on the "Confessions of an Idiot" post. How about the rest of you? Lets hear some of your smooth moves and humorous stories... besides... it's healthy to laugh at ourselves. Let's liven this joint up a bit

P.S. Thanks Pete at admin for the "Bonehead" title idea... Billy TIllamook

shoulda · 02-17-2004, 03:31 PM

Where to begin...

Probably me most memorable was tying a hotshot on to my leader and dumping it over the side. Only as I watched it float away did I realize that I hadn't tied the leader onto my main line. Given all the tackle I'd already lost that day, my buddy asked me why I didn't just dump my tackle box into the river and save time.

I got the last laugh though. About a mile downstream we spotted that hotshot hung up on a tree branch in the water and I was able to wade over and get it back.

fishingfirst · 02-17-2004, 03:47 PM

So to stay on the same topic as my post on "Confessions of an Idiot", another time with the canoe...........(by the way I have a real boat now and gave up the canoe thing...gee I wonder why???), anyway drifting the same river (upper Yamhill) we put in and the first hole is a pretty good trout hole, this was my buddies first trip so I was being generous and told him to go ahead and cast and I would work the boat down through the hole. Well things were going great, he caught a couple of nice trout, then we hit the bottom of the hole.......literally, the canoe hit a rock, flipped us sideways and water started pouring over the side. In about ten seconds the canoe was about three feet under water. So now we are standing in the canoe and I am holding on to the only paddle left. The river was running pretty swift in this part of the river, so we had to drag the canoe up the bank, dump it out then get back in before we could even try to go after our gear. Have you ever tried to paddle a canoe with only one oar, and do it fast enough to catch your gear floating downriver??? [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]
By the time all was said and done, we had wasted about an hour locating gear, and we were left with two rods and the spinners attached! We lost all of our tackle, and two cell phones that will never work again. We had about five hours of drift left, and as you can imagine it is very hard to fish all day without losing a spinner but we did. It turned out to be a great day and we caught lots of trout.
All you can do is laugh, it is one of my better memories of fishing this river.

Scott

6wapiti6 · 02-17-2004, 03:49 PM

Lets see, last year we were fishing at the fishery in another ifishers boat. We got to where we wanted to anchor so I got up front and was getting things ready. For some stupid reason I unscrewed the u-bolt that holds the anchor to the chain and put it into my pocket. Then I used plastic tie straps to hold the anchor to the chain. Dropped the anchor, felt it hit and started to feed slack...after I let out the desired amount of line I went to tie it off on the cleat. We kept drifting so I went up to let out some more line and felt no weight where the anchor was supposed to be? Oh C*&p! Pulled up a rope with only chain on it...oh well, at least the fishery sold anchors?

chummer · 02-17-2004, 03:57 PM

Many years ago, back when the fishery was known as covert's landing, My future brother-in-law and I took his new (to him) P14 boat out for some sturgeon fishing. All it had in it were the folding lawn chairs we put in it to sit on. Shortly after anchoring, I noted some water in the hull. It was raining pretty hard, so I shrugged it off. A bit later, I noted the water in the boat was considerabley deeper. I said to rick "I think you got a leak in this boat!" Never noticing he looked down and freaked a bit. he quickly figured our predicament, No plug in the transom! We hurried to reel in so we could pull anchor and beat cheeks back to port. Just as we reeled in and luck would have it, a branch came floating by. We grabbed it, and busted it up until we had the right diameter to the plug hole. Situation resolved, trip saved!

Just Fish · 02-17-2004, 07:05 PM

Me and a fishing buddy were at drano and after a couple hours of trolling noticed we had no lunch so I go to the back side of the ramp. My buddy say he will stay with the boat so I went to get the lunch. I got back to the parking lot and I saw my boat floating about 100 yards out my buddy no were to be found. Finaly he comes out of the out house he had just put a rock on the mooring line thank god a fellow trolling by notice a boat with out occupants at float and to idiots on the back with concern written all over ther faces.He gave us a ride to the boat and it was all good we caught 3 nice fish that day.

FROGGY · 02-17-2004, 07:39 PM

Last Thursday I tried for an early springer at the sellwood area. It got pretty windy at about 2:oo so I decided to call it a day. I tied my boat up at the dock at willamette park to back my truck down. Got back in the boat, the wind had me pushed against the dock, so I leaned over to push away, well I leaned against my throttle and opened her all the way up. I ground my way up the dock about 15 feet before I knew what happened. Thank God I was the only one there and no other boats were in front of me

:blush:

B-run · 02-17-2004, 09:20 PM

Ill start with the dumbest thing then the second dumb and dumber.
Duck hunting a while back my buddy who is now in Iraq(love ya bro!!) shoved me off in the boat from the bank and tried to climb in, he slips and fell over his head, I dove off the front into the water to help him, as the boat drifted away in the wind... Dog, guns, decoys and all. We sat there in the swamp water watching the U.S.S. Dufus float away.(close your eyes and imagine the look on my black labs face.) Gotter back after an hour of wind.

Last year Feb 20. Day after slammin steel driftin.
First day trollin the year. My buddy says, "remember yesterday was driftfishing, today is trolling, letter have it" ok,ok got it.Early AM. herring roll awesome, 50# tuff,30# ultragreen.
Yank,yank,yank, line heads sideways, grab rod,Rrrrrrrrrip the lip, "pop goe's the leader". Duh. [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

rock bottom · 02-17-2004, 09:41 PM

I was bass fishing on the coast one time with a top water rapala when a seagull came from behind me and dove on my lure. what took place next was not good. I fired up my 10 horse motor and with my rod between my legs, one hand on the tiller and the other on an oar decided to chase the bird and try to retrive my lure. Thank goodness I could not catch it because I had bad thoughts going through my head. when I returned to the dock some people were having a picnic and commended me for doing the right thing chasing the bird as to not hurt it and try to untangle it and finally cutting the line(if they only new what was going through my mind). :blush:

By the way it is also amazing how strong you become after you have launched your 12 foot alaskan with that same 10 horse on it, tie it off drive up and park the rig to come back and find it half sunk due to no plug. You guessed it I picked the back end up out of the water and set it on the dock. 15 yrs old and scared to death.turned the front end around fired the motor threw the back end in and took off. only took about ten min. for all the water to run out the back. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Mad Mikey · 02-17-2004, 09:54 PM

Me and my Father, both recent casualties of divorce thought it would be fun to take a canoe from our cabin on Lake Lytle after downing almost two bottles of whiskey around mid-night back in the early 90's.
It was January, we flipped the boat in the middle of the lake and had to slog back through the shallows with an upside down boat, every step we took through the lake bed muck produced a belch of swamp gas from the stinky lake bottom. Nasty stuff.
We had to wash our clothes twice.... [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]