Whats your scariest moment on the water

[Austin(boatman's son)]

we did get stuck in a bad storm at cal. point in the middle of the night haha

[Reverend Redfish]

In Henderson about 15 years ago - ran out of boudin about 20 minutes after launching boat.... Worst day of my fishing life!

[huntin fool]

toleda bend in march last year...about 40-50 degrees,30 mph winds, we was across the lake from our camp, ran it in a bay-boat, then hoped in friends bass boat...started taking water over in the front, I FROZED! pulled into a cove, and froze some more..


should of stayed in the bay boat

[elebouef]

Was out in the Playboy boat with some of the playmates a few years ago and got stopped by the harbor police and they found drugs in one of the playmate's bags and they were going to haul us off to jail but I woke up before and was scared I had talked in my sleep and my wife heard some names.

[speck-chaser]

Well,Im glad to hear stuff like that just dont happen to me! Was in cote blanche before I had my bay boat-in a 17' bass boat. My 300lb+ friend was with me. Before we knew something there was a little storm that came up between us and the point,and coming our way. I figured I would just take it easy keeping the nose up. Well,all was fine until a rogue wave hit and the nose of the boat went under the wave. The force of the wave hit me in the chest and about knocked the wind out of me. When we finally passed throught the wave, we had about 8" of water across the whole floor,our tackle boxes was floating,ice chests went overboard,and my big buddy was on the floor,with a fishing pole hooked to his rear,and hollering dont stop. I had the hot foot to the floor and liked to not kept it on step enough for us not to take on another wave. finally the bilge got the water out and made it back to the landing.

[hangemhigh]

lighting storm...launched out of crown point in a 14' flat with a 48hp evinrude...got all the way to lake salvordre and got caught in the worst lightening storm of my life...we laid on the bottom of the boat best we could in our rain coat...sh#$ was hitting the water all around us....just never knew when it was going to be our turn..there was no place to run and hide..

[speck-chaser]

Another time, Me and my 9 year old son at the time were duck hunting in the basin. We were in my buddies pro drive and had just gotten into a deeper canal in the swamp. I was just starting to slow down,when the motor hit a stump and pulled the transom down and swung the bow of the boat up and to the right where there was another stump out of the water. The back of the boat immeadiately filled with water and the only thing out of the water was the very point of the boat resting on the stump. My son was hanging on to the rope in the point of the boat. Thankfully My cell phone was in a ziploc and I was able to call my buddy to come rescue us. We pretty much hung in the peak of the boat and froze our butts off in 35 degree weather for 2 hours before they got there. One of the worst parts,is when they got there and found out we were not hurt,they circled the boat and laughed ,and laughed,and took video and pics of us before they let us on board.

[meaux fishing]

got high centered on a big patch of cypress knees in the middle of Felsenthal up in arkansas on a duck scouting trip. 10 ft of water all around us no cell phone signal couldn't really turn around cause we were going down this little cut with trees on both sides. took us an hour and a half to get off...

[CatDaddy]

Originally Posted by 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.

Mine would have to be the same thing, but it was my friend who sunk in the marsh. We was going hunting, and i went park the boat a little further down, he said he was gonna start with robo duckand a few other things, and all i had to do was go park the boat and bring the sack of decoys, After running a little further down the bank to park the boat, I got out the boat to start walking with a big sack of decoys and i could hear my buddy screaming for his life, I couldnt even see his head lamp, It was freezing cold and i havent even put my waiders on. all i had was my pants on with "long johns" under... When i herd him screaming for life I just took off running thrugh marsh sometimes falling in marsh holes waste deep. I was so wore out and almost passing out pushing myself so hard to get to my buddy, finally i got to him and he was almost up to his neck in marsh, he almost made it to a high spot buy the time i got there so all i had to do (or could do) was lay down and grab his hand and hold him. After i caught my breath i helped him out and we took a break and then went back to the boat.

[CatDaddy]

Originally Posted by elebouef

Was out in the Playboy boat with some of the playmates a few years ago and got stopped by the harbor police and they found drugs in one of the playmate's bags and they were going to haul us off to jail but I woke up before and was scared I had talked in my sleep and my wife heard some names.

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

once on big lake we had a storm come up while me and my friend and brother were out.

the hair on our arms stood up and the rod tips were buzzing. we got as low as we could and hauled out of there

[LittleRob]

Originally Posted by speck-chaser

Another time, Me and my 9 year old son at the time were duck hunting in the basin. We were in my buddies pro drive and had just gotten into a deeper canal in the swamp. I was just starting to slow down,when the motor hit a stump and pulled the transom down and swung the bow of the boat up and to the right where there was another stump out of the water. The back of the boat immeadiately filled with water and the only thing out of the water was the very point of the boat resting on the stump. My son was hanging on to the rope in the point of the boat. Thankfully My cell phone was in a ziploc and I was able to call my buddy to come rescue us. We pretty much hung in the peak of the boat and froze our butts off in 35 degree weather for 2 hours before they got there. One of the worst parts,is when they got there and found out we were not hurt,they circled the boat and laughed ,and laughed,and took video and pics of us before they let us on board.

You have to love your friends if you aren't hurt or in danger: it's game on.

[MOJO]

Had a waterspout drop down 20 yards from us in lafitte.
We were in my cousins old stick steer 15' boat when it happened.
Motor would not crank up so it was all 12 volts from the trolling motor to get away from it.
That waterspout got bigger than any spout I've ever seen and was on the water for about 45 min.
Can't say I've ever been more scarred than that day.

[speck-chaser]

hey rob, after they took my pic they put it in their phone,so that whenever I would call,that picture would come up,and they would get a good laugh all over again. I hafta admit though, it was a funny looking picture. the back of the boat under water with the front sticking about 60 degrees into the air and me and my son huddled into the front point of the boat hanging on so we dont slide down into the water.

[Slidellkid]

Man, those are some good stories!

Here's a few for ya. I was fishing Toledo Bend with a friend one cold march day and my bass boat just started sinking and we were about 100 yards off the bank. The boat sank and bobbed a bit and the motor was dragging the bottom. I was freaking out it happened in a matter of a minute or two and water was surging into the boat from the drain hole in the middle of the floor. We had to wade chest high water to get to the bank and it took all day to get the boat out. That was one miserable day.

Fishing a tournament on Toledo and the guy I was with knew the lake real well. Well, it got thick foggy and he said lets head towards the dam. We were running about 40 mph and I started to crap my pants because I couldn't see anything and I just knew were were going to hit the rocks. Turns out he did know where he was going but he scared the crap out of me.

Right after high school graduation we went to the lake and got drunk. That night, my dad's boat drifted out into the lake and I could see it way out there about 300 yards in the moonlight. I had been a lifeguard for three summers and could swim real well, so in my drunken state I decided I had better swim out to get the boat. Well, the water was pretty scary in the middle of the night and all the life jackets were out in the boat so i just started swimming real fast. I got about 250 yards out and was exhausted and started to panic terribly. My mind was freezing up on me with fear and I felt like I couldn't go any further. Luckily I finally made it to the boat but I was so scared I was practically crying. I was so exhausted I couldn't even climb into the boat so I just hung on for a few minutes until I regained my strength. Prior to that night I used to scoff at folks that said they panicked in the water and really didn't believe that strong swimmers would panic, but I am now a true believer.

[mallard matt]

I found a fella yesterday in the middle of his worst story ever.Me and a buddy decided to go do some sacalait fishing in the basin out of bayou benoit.Well we got there at 545 and started heading for the back i was rolling down the crook chene and saw a ice chest floating.Didnt think much then i saw a life jacket then a boat seat then then the boat upside down with a fellow in his fortys sitting on top.This fella looked like the elephant man the skeeters had tore him up all night,fella said he flipped about seven aclock the night before.Got him in the boat and brought him to the landing he passed out on the way there,and we basically had to carry him to his truck,and he passed out said he just needed to sleep.

My scaryest moment was when me,and a freind went to red fish point out of v-bay in a 14 foot flat with my little 25 nissan tiller handle pushing got there couldnt catch squat decided to leave cause a storm was coming go out in the bay and the waves had grown form 2 to 4 feet.With a storm a brewen on the horizen.My freind looked pretty scared all i did was turn the billige pump on and say damn the torpedos man.Luckely the combination of expert boat handling a new bilige pump and my freind praying for his life on the floor of the boat.Got us out of there.every wave we hit would sent water flying over the bow.Never doing that again.

[jpeff31787]

Originally Posted by mallard matt

I found a fella yesterday in the middle of his worst story ever.Me and a buddy decided to go do some sacalait fishing in the basin out of bayou benoit.Well we got there at 545 and started heading for the back i was rolling down the crook chene and saw a ice chest floating.Didnt think much then i saw a life jacket then a boat seat then then the boat upside down with a fellow in his fortys sitting on top.This fella looked like the elephant man the skeeters had tore him up all night,fella said he flipped about seven aclock the night before.Got him in the boat and brought him to the landing he passed out on the way there,and we basically had to carry him to his truck,and he passed out said he just needed to sleep.

My scaryest moment was when me,and a freind went to red fish point out of v-bay in a 14 foot flat with my little 25 nissan tiller handle pushing got there couldnt catch squat decided to leave cause a storm was coming go out in the bay and the waves had grown form 2 to 4 feet.With a storm a brewen on the horizen.My freind looked pretty scared all i did was turn the billige pump on and say damn the torpedos man.Luckely the combination of expert boat handling a new bilige pump and my freind praying for his life on the floor of the boat.Got us out of there.every wave we hit would sent water flying over the bow.Never doing that again.

V. Bay is one BAD area to be in a little boat. My uncle said he's seen quite a few boats go down in there. Its just so shallow and wide so the waves build very easily. We used to fish a 16ft express and we'd never go far out into the bay, now we have our bay boat and we can, but it still gets pretty bad even in the bay boat. The funny thing is you can go out the pass and it'd be nice with a slight chop on the water then get into the bay and its like 3-4 ft horribly choppy seas banging you all over the place lol

[mikedatiger]

Originally Posted by Jfranovich

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.

Mine was my first outing ever in my boat on Sabine this past March. The lake was rough as hell - had intermittent 4 footers with probably 30mph wind. I was fishing the middle of the lake near a platform when I noticed 3 guys on the platform and eyed their old bass boat getting beat to death on the pilings below - boat was not tied down and was taking water over the bow and stern.

Long story short, but the guys tried to get back into their boat (no ladder as it was a non-operative storm damaged platform) and fell overboard. I saw 2 of the men get back on the platform and the 3rd was hanging on to the motor. I was a few hundred yards away and started to pull anchor just in case, while watching as his boat drifted off with the tide. At one point all hell broke loose and everyone was hollering for help. It took several minutes to get to the guy on the boat and at that point it seemed as if he was close to just giving up and letting go. Man was well over 300 lbs and it took us a good 3 minutes to try to pull him into his boat. No life-jackets, radio, etc...I really thought he was going to drown...

Once the man was secure we had to get the other 2 off the platform and realized that one of the men was probably close to 70 - he had fallen in the water, swallowed something and could barely talk, much less breathe. I had called the Coast Guard during this whole process and informed them of such, but the 3 guys wanted no part of that and got in their boat and took off.

I had no business in the lake myself that day, but desparately wanted to get my boat in the water. These guys had absolutely no business at all out there in a 20 year old bass boat with absolutely zero safety equipment.

Was probably the best possible way for me to be baptized into boat ownership as I learned some invaluable lessons that day. And my first catch ever in my new ride was a 300lber...

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by mikethetiger55

And my first catch ever in my new ride was a 300lber...

And you landed him without a gaff or anything!! You are da man!

[Jordan]

lol... Boga !!!