Whats your scariest moment on the water

[Jordan]

Whats everyone's scariest moment they had/seen on the water ? Mine was this past weekend when coast guard was pulling a 24' champion on plane... that guy looked white as the side of his boat.

[jpeff31787]

I was in a company work boat about 26-28 feet long with twin 250 yamies going up the good ole miss. river. Well we catch up with the big crew boat proabably 100ft long, and he's pushing 30 knots The WAKE behind that thing was ENORMOUS!! Probably 20-25ft high. I thought I was going to see the bottom of the river whenever we'd go down them.. not joking lol There were about 5 other boats with us and they were all bigger than ours and we were all going just fast enough to keep us from being pushed on top of the rocks. But man I've never seen wakes that big in my life. Not REAL REAL scary but pretty intense. BTW I've heard the US Enterprise cant hit 70 knots, imagine that wake. Look it up.

[Jordan]

friggin skyscraper wakes

[jpeff31787]

yeah dude.. hate to be behind that thing

I heard when 9/11 happened they activated it and they got it up that fast

[cmdrost]

2 times, both involve bad lightning.

Got stuck in a bad summer storm when little with my dad when skiing.

Other was offshore, touched outriggers and they shocked me, they were so charged up. Thought we were toast.

[Zachary Boy]

My experience was in Venice,La. We were about 12 miles down river when the FOG set in. It was high noon at 11:45. It was 'pea-soup', couldn't see 20'.. I tried to wait it out but about 3:00 PM decided to try to make it back to 'the jump'. I hugged the east bank all the way back and was willing to ditch my boat if neccessary to save me and my passengers. Well, come time to cross the river when the big ships were seeing us on radar and blowing their horns. We could not see them at all. When we finally made it to the marina I thanked the Good Lord and swore to him I would never make that mistake again.....Forgot to add that we took water over the front of my 21' bay boat about 3 times crossing the huge boat wakes, thank God for self-bailing boats as at one point we were ankle deep in water at the center console....About a month later a friend asked me if I wanted to make a 'night-run' down the river to fish the Sandy Point rigs. My question was "You have got to be kiddin me huh". He wasn't and THEY went...

[jpeff31787]

Originally Posted by Zachary Boy

My experience was in Venice,La. We were about 12 miles down river when the FOG set in. It was high noon at 11:45. It was 'pea-soup', couldn't see 20'.. I tried to wait it out but about 3:00 PM decided to try to make it back to 'the jump'. I hugged the east bank all the way back and was willing to ditch my boat if neccessary to save me and my passengers. Well, come time to cross the river when the big ships were seeing us on radar and blowing their horns. We could not see them at all. When we finally made it to the marina I thanked the Good Lord and swore to him I would never make that mistake again.....Forgot to add that we took water over the front of my 21' bay boat about 3 times crossing the huge boat wakes, thank God for self-bailing boats as at one point we were ankle deep in water at the center console....About a month later a friend asked me if I wanted to make a 'night-run' down the river to fish the Sandy Point rigs. My question was "You have got to be kiddin me huh". He wasn't and THEY went...

thats pretty scary i'd have to say!! One time we were in the fog and it was so thick, I couldn't catch gps signals, but i was in a calm bayou in the marsh so we waited it out

[LaAngler]

i can't decide whether mine was a severe squall offshore or gettin stopped by LDWF in lake charles.....

[Jordan]

tell us both stories !!!

[LittleRob]

I took a friend of mine out to White lake he said he knew his way around, well he sucks we got lost ended up in Grand Lake with 20 mph south wind in a 17' aluminum boat, my bilge pump didnot stop waves coming over the bow, and my buddy who's a Marine was laughing the whole time, he only took it serios when I told him we where down to 1/4 of a tank. So conclusions Marines are crazy and never leave hom without your GPS. That is in a joking manner about the Marines.

[bigdog]

the scariest would have to be working on a Hopper Dredge on the Columbia river bar. the average wave hight was 10 ft but, when the wind kick up the wave hight could of have went to 24 - 32 ft.

[whunter29]

I have had so many scary moments its hard to list them all. I was fishing sacalait with my father in whisky bay and had a branch fall out of a tree that landed right behind me and dented the aluminum on the boat. When I was twelve I got thrown out of my fathers boat in the middle of Dubassion lake. My fault my father went to get truck and I was suppose to stay at the boat launch and put boat on trailer. I instead went out to the middle of the lake and proceded to do donuts. All was fine until I found myself in the water and the boat going around me in circles with a thirty horse Johnson on it and a full tank of gas. I had to swim out of its path and to safety. Another time I was working for a survey company and we were down the Mississippi river out of venice in a boat 23 feet long and we got caught between two super tankers with an engine alarm going off and we were taking on water. Needless to say we kept running that motor even with the high heat alarm sounding. I could have kissed the land at cypress cove when we got back there after that incedent.

[Ray]

I was hunting alligators with a friend and his grandson. I was running the big boat in the canals and he and his grandson were running a smaller tunnel hull in the shallow marshes. He didn't have much room in his boat so he left the grandson and all his gators in my boat so he could go lighter into a big shallow lake to get a big gator. He also took my bigger gun. I covered all the gators with wet grass sacks and waited for him to come back. One of his gators was not dead. It stood up on its feet and tried to throw off the sack on his head. The grandson was at the front of my boat with nothing but a plastic Sprite bottle. When he turned around, the gator was looking at him. He rared back with the plastic bottle like he was going to hit it. I told him to stay still and don't move. That is when I remembered I had no gun in the boat. I had an old hatchet, so I snuck up behind him and whacked it between the eyes. I will never go without a gun with alligators in the boat.

[southern151]

Got caught this spring in a storm while crawfishin in Pierre Part. It dropped five inches in an hour. Light flying everywhere in the sky and we were 5 miles deep in swamp and cypress! We took on more water in that hour than I could bail. We had to go out in mid-storm and run the canals with the plug pulled to help keep the water down in the boat. It was one of those moments when you look up and ask, "Have I been good enough?"

[Marshrat]

While shrimping in Calcasieu Lake, a squall hit us. We took off toward the bank, but being out in the middle of the lake we headed toward Hebert's. We took on so much water that the boat was completely under, seats kept the boat from going to the bottom. Used an orange shrimp basket to flag bigger boats that were passing by but they would just wave and keep going. Finally got to the bank near a camp, and found a bucket to bail the boat and was able to get to Hebert's and pull out.



Warren

[dbarham]

I was up in chocolate bayou runnin wide open in my carolina skiff. I hit something underwater rippin the tiller from my hand and cocking it sideways motor leaned out and WFO I finally got to the kill button but the waves I created makin donuts lifted my motor off the back and bye bye baby!!! I tried to hold it but had waders on and was in 20 feet of water near where they load barges. the water was too cold and deep to get it so it created a new reef there. also got caught in a squall in the bay different occasion,the wind blew 50 mph and stood my boat straight up thank god I made it.. i was very scared

[eman]

Mine Was an out of the boat experiance. Was Walking the marsh stalking red fish w/ a fly rod. Made one wrong step and sunk allmost to my chest in the mud.
Thought i was going to be there till someone came looking for me.
Tossed my gear to a high spot and started grabbing marsh grass trying to pull myself out . took my big azz over 1 1/2 hrs to move about 5 feet to harder ground.
Not a good feeling to be in the water and can't move and it's getting dark.

[Austin(boatman's son)]

had a eight foot shark jump out the water and take my mullet in cocodrie

[fishinpox]

Originally Posted by Zachary Boy

My experience was in Venice,La. We were about 12 miles down river when the FOG set in. It was high noon at 11:45. It was 'pea-soup', couldn't see 20'.. I tried to wait it out but about 3:00 PM decided to try to make it back to 'the jump'. I hugged the east bank all the way back and was willing to ditch my boat if neccessary to save me and my passengers. Well, come time to cross the river when the big ships were seeing us on radar and blowing their horns. We could not see them at all. When we finally made it to the marina I thanked the Good Lord and swore to him I would never make that mistake again.....Forgot to add that we took water over the front of my 21' bay boat about 3 times crossing the huge boat wakes, thank God for self-bailing boats as at one point we were ankle deep in water at the center console....About a month later a friend asked me if I wanted to make a 'night-run' down the river to fish the Sandy Point rigs. My question was "You have got to be kiddin me huh". He wasn't and THEY went...

i hear ya man that river can be hell i have a similar story except we werent stuck out we were tryin to leave to go fish all we could heaer was fog horns it took us 2 hrs to get from venice marina to main pass at the river the thing we will fo to catch trout

["W"]

3 weeks after Rita...I went to the marsh by myself looking for reds....I just souped up my 25merc and added a jack plate.....I was running wide azz open in about 1foot of water and I hit something....knocked the handle out of my hand and boat went right I went left...(did not have kill switch on)....I was throw out and the boat crossed a the canal and went on the bank wide open....Knocked the motor off while running.....Had to swin across and pick motor up and put back on the jack plate....I was whipped ..... Pulled boat back to center of canal and 3rd pull she fired up.... Lesson leared wear your KILL SWITCH.....This could of ended worst!!!!