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[  ] HEY I WAS JUST WONDERING ABOUT SOME CRAZY STORIES JUST TO GET TO THAT PERFECT CASTING POINT, HIDDEN BROOK, FARMERS POND.....LIKE THE TIME I JUMPED OFF THE BACK OF THE BOAT, ROD IN TEETH, COMANDO STYLE TO SWIM THE 20 YARDS TO THE SUBMERGED ROCK UNDER 3.5 FEET OF WATER JUST TO WORK THE EDGES OF IT WITH A RATTLE TRAP THEN SWAM BACK TO THE BOAT JUST SO I COULD SAY I CAUGHT A 1/2 POUND SMALLIE...MY FATHER IN LAW WOULDNT GET HIS BOAT NEAR THAT HUMP OF SUBMERGED SAND/ROCK/MUD....HE JUST FIXED HIS FOOT AND HE WOULD BE DAMNED SO HE SAID, ILL WAIT IF YOULL SWIM FOR IT. I DID AND SO DID HE....LOL.....
LETS HEAR THOS STORIES FOLKS....DIDYA FALL IN...DID YA GET THE TROPHY...DID YA GET SLAPPED UP SIDE THE HEAD FOR DOING SOMETHING STUPID JUST TO CATCH FISH???? CMON NOW.
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Well once in late march I was standing on the swim platform of my boat casting jigs for walleye at Utah lake, this seagull kept bombing me and chasing my jig, he would continually dive at it, so naturally I got tired of it and when he came overhead to give me another present I casted the jig at him, well at the same time my Dad decided he didnt like where he was positioned in the boat and moved seats, well with me in an akward position casting directly up, and my dad moving the boat, I went head over tea kettle into the lake. havent fished from that area since... [  ]
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I was fishing of an old wooden bridge about 10-12" above the river when I thought i could get a better shot at the hole by stepping a little closer to the edge of the bridge. The rotten wood quickly gave way. I broke two more planks off with each arm as I dropped into the river. I some how managed to hang on to my pole and made it to shore with all my equipment, but I was sore for days. Chicken
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When I was a teenager I went down to the spillway below Deer Creek dam to fish the deep pool at the bottom. There were "No Tresspassing" signs all over the place but we found a spot that didn't have them and entered the area from there, figuring that if we entered there we had an excuse since we "didn't know" it was no tresspassing, lol.
Anyway, we fished with rapalas, and we caught some MONSTER sized browns and a couple of cutthroats and rainbows that were HUGE! My biggest I can't remember how big but it was over 20 inches.
My friend went back there a couple of days later by himself to fish it again, and got busted by the dam security or someone like that. He got off with a warning luckily. I'm just glad I wasn't there that time! Haven't been back there since, but man what good fishin it was!! [cool]
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I was fishing on a river in the unitahs, and just kind of moving down stream when i came to a large cliff so I bouldered along it with my rod in my teeth stoping every few feet to readjust it in my mouth{ those things aren't easy to carry in your teeth while rock climbing} because the spot below the cliff looked really good. I only caught one fish in the hole and it was a 12" rainbow, thenclimbed my way back out.
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I have literally four broken fly rods to show for the various acts of stupidity that I have committed.
One day I was leisurely floating down the North Fork of Snake in my Pontoon, when I got lazy and decided that the river was calm enough for me to float backwards while I tied a size 2 sculpin fly on. When I turned around I was face to face with a tree that had fallen 3/4 of the way across the river. The water pressure instantly pinned me up against the tree. I was stuck in the pontoon which was now vertical. I was worried about my head being pushed underneath the water but at the same time I kept telling myself do not let go of the flyrod. I had just finished building the rod and had about $250 dollars worth of parts into it not counting the reel. Just then the tree broke and I was pushed farther into the water. The rod was pulled from my hands but not before the very large sculpin fly embedded itself clean through my thumb. So the rod was going down river and the fly was in my thumb. Then the leader broke and I floated into calmer water, lucky to be alive but swearing about my rod. Then I had to row another the two miles with fly in my thumb. When I got home my wife held down my hand while I pushed the barb through and cut it off. I went back for the next three days searching for my rod. No one ever found it.
Another time I was in my float tube at Condie Reservoir in the South end. I sat my fly rod across my tube and reached into the pocket to retrieve some sunscreen. My elbow bumped my rod and went straight to the bottom. I dived for it but could not even get close to the bottom. I found some guys at work who scuba dived. They agreed to go get it for $75. I thought that the price was worth it since this was my first hand built rod. They had to swim about 400 yards before they could even start looking. Then it took them 1/2 hour of diving to find it. The rod was found in 40' of water. There was a small opening in the weeds and rod was standing upright reel down in the opening otherwise it would not have been found.
This is just a small sampling of mishaps. My wife doesnt even ask me what happend anymore because she is afraid to hear what I have lost or broken and will have to replace. Just last week I taught the scouts how to cast fly rods and then smashed a rod in the tailgate when I got home. Dohh!!
I have a foot long scar on my leg because I was flyfishing in the Teton River near Rexburg and some one had a fence that went clear across the river. The only problem was that the fence had fallen down and was under the water. I was intent on my casts and wading. Then I stepped through the barbed wire and its a good thing there were not any pariahnas around.
I have also gone into boiling rapids after fish like on "A River Runs Through It" but you guys would never believe me so I won't get into that one.
Florida Alligators on spinner baits anyone?
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Hey windriver remind me to never go fishing with you, ok? lol Just givin ya a hard time![ ][crazy]
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I've got a couple.
One was at Newton Dam. Fishing by the island, back when it was one and hooked a good bass. Fought and fought and it eventually got to some submerged willows. Well, I wasn't going to lose it and I only had one pair of clothes and there was no way that I was going to keep fishing in wet clothes. So, my brother paddled the canoe to a shallow spot and I jumped out naked. I went into about 5 feet of water and unhooked the line and caught the bass. It wasn't as big as my brother said...only about 14".
I got my brother back on the next one. We were fishing a pond out near Roosevelt. I had just bought a new $6 or $7 spinnerbait. The first cast he put it in a tree. I wasn't happy with it so I made him strip naked and go after it. He didn't know but I had a water-proof disposable camera. Pictures were taken and the lure was lost. I still won!
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I was floating down the Green Rriver half way between the dam & Little Hole when one of those big Bows hit my line. It was headed upstream fast and I was headed downstream just as fast. Just as we passed over a little shallow spit, I jumped out of the raft, only with the clear water it wasn't 2' deep but 5'. Swam to shore with much struggle due to the current and then proceeded to lose the fish.
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I have one !!. I was at the jordan narrows cat fishing with all of my friends. It was night & I had a few beers kicking back on the cement wall of a small canal with rapid flowing water. I snagged so I stood up on the cement wall and pulled in a big stick I was trying to get my hook out of it and I lost my footing and fell into the current with my feet bouncing across the bottom I was desperately trying to grab the cement wall and pull myself out. I finally pulled myself out with all my friends laughing and my new rod whisking away down stream. I learned a good lesson about night fishing without a light. haha. Ohh and another time I was at lake powell fishing for stripers drifting against the moki wall. There was a bigger boat floating right next to us with an older couple fishing. I was talking to the older lady asking how the fishing was. Next thing you know a big striper hit her pole and she was only holding on with one arm it pulled her off the swim platform of her boat and her husband grabbed her and pulled her back onto the boat. With pole in hand laughing she still ends up keeping her pole and landing the fish. it was damn funny !!
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DID SHE PULL IT WAY UP INTO THE AIR, LIKE IT PULLED HER WAY INTO THE WATER??? THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS TO SEE...I CAN ONLY IMAGINE...GETTIN RIPPED OFF YOUR BOAT BY SOMETHING YOU THINK HAS GOT TO BE THE SIZE OF A BULL MOOSE TO DO THAT....AN THEN GET YOUR BUTT JERKED BACK ONTO A BOAT ALL WHILE MAITAINING THE COMPOSURE TO REEL IN AND HANG ON TO YOUR POLE...AND THEN LAND THE SUKA AND LAUGH AT IT AND SAY, I CATCH MINNOWS LIKE YOU BEFORE BREAKFAST....AND NOT FEEL AT BEST IT WAS A DRAW, THE FISH GOT YOU WET, AND YOU GOT IT AIRED OUT......LOL....GOOD STORY THERE SWERVE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEEN THAT ONE!! [cool]
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Me and my girlfriend went on a half day boat lake spring in San Diego. So I'm sittin there fishin and she starts makin a rukus, so I look over and I'll be damned if the heavy duty ocean rod isn't bent in half, and shes holdin on for dear life with half her body leaning out the boat.
Then all a sudden people from the other side of the boat start yellin about a sea lion with a line in its mouth. Finally we figured that she had hooked a sea lion. So finally the line snapped, but she wasn't in to it much after that. lol
I'll just never forget lookin over and seeing her almost pulled half way out of the boat.
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Well when i first moved to utah 7 years ago i went down to burrastons pond.There was a light cap of ice on the pond and it was about 6 feet out from the shore.I hooked a brown a nice one about 5lbs and i was determined to catch it!And i finally tired him out and lifted him on the ice .I was fishing from the shore though.So when i lifted him gently on the ice the hook came off!So me being naive i walked on the sheet of ice and fell through!But i did hold on to that brown and ate his tatsy butt that night![sly]
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OK, OK these are funny stories. I've got one.
Last winter around Christmas (2002) time I drove up into the Uintahs there was not much snow so I thought I'd fish the beaver ponds along the Upper Provo. I parked at Soapstone and wandered down stream hitting little openings inthe ice and floating a wax worm or crawler thru the break in the ice toward the ponds. I had caught quite a few and was having a good time until I walked across a big beaver pond when I got the the edge one leg went thru the ice so here I am stiiting on the ice in my waders one leg on the bottom of the pond and the other spawled on the ice and I can't move. After about 10 minutes I finally was able to snag a branch with my line and drag it over to me. 8lb spider wire that is amazing stuff. This branch had to weight 50lbs and I was able to drag it out of the snow (rocking it out of course) nad get it close enough to pry myself out of the predicament. Once out I just could not see not taking advantage of the nice hole I just punched. I preceded to pull about a dozen fat rainbows out of the spot keeping my limit for the day and then heading home.
It was a hard lesson but one I learned. But funny when I think back on it
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