Fishing Follies

[Shetan]

Okay here's one to start this thread off. You may remember me from going through the ice twice in four days last year. I swear some of the stuff I do would take a comedic genius like Charlie Chapman 20 takes to get right. Last week Friday and Saturday I took 45 keepers (threw probably twice that back). I froze 25 between snow in a bucket. The second day I brought 20 home and dumped all of them in the sink after getting as much snow as I could out of the bucket. I figured I would put a tiny bit of water in the sink and stir it around to melt the snow and then let the frozen fish thaw and the fresh ones finish dying mostly. My utility sink downstairs has been running hot water full blast and cold water just a trickle lately. So I figured that I would turn it off before the water even got hot. I turn the sink on (full blast) and hear a clink. The handle fell (I thought) into the sink. I rummage around frantically throught the fish trying to find it and am unable to locate it. Meanwhile the water starts to get really hot. The live fish are shooting through the sink, nailing me with their dorsals. I finally run outside to get my pliers from the garage (in my socks through the snow) and come down and turn the sink off. There is five or six inches of very hot water in the sink by this time. I start cutting fillets off and notice that about ten out of the twelve are a bit white colored... I smell them and there is no smell at all.... no fresh fish smell. Yep you were right ... they were partially cooked. By the way the handle had fallen under the sponge up top.:bloos:

My dad always says ... when in doubt throw it out... when it comes to food and I do have several bags in the freezer. So I make the bleak decision to toss 90 fillets in the triple bagged guts.... sigh.

It was fun catching them but... (wipes away a tear).

What's that french saying?

sa la ve? :tdo12:

[GaryFisherman]

I thought of another folly I was in on...I have a lot of follies!!

My wife and I were fishing Stoney Creek a couple summers ago. We were loading the boat on the trailer at the boat launch. My wife got to close to to the slick algae and took a backwards header into the water...just like you see in cartoons when someone slips on a banana peel..

Of course, I had to pretend to be the caring husband while trying not to laugh and point...lol

[kbails56]

I took my boat out with my bro. When we went to the boat launch my bro told me how he and his friends launch their boats. He said this is called a speed launch, trust me I do it all of the time. So I did and needless to say the boat rolled off the trailer about 10 ft. shy of the water. You can say I was ticked off.

[stinger63]

A few days ago I went to fish a small private inland lake that I never fished before.There had been places where other people had a shanty set up.So I walk over to the spot and started clearing the snow away that had drifted over that area.I set my foot down and kerplunk down inside a hole it went sink my leg all the way into my knee.This hole was big enough for a size 11 boot to fit in:yikes::lol:Anyways It didnt stop me from fishing I just put up with wet leg and foot for the rest of the afternoon.My buddy that I was fishing with sure gotta good laugh out of it.
Aaron

[GaryFisherman]

I took my boat out with my bro. When we went to the boat launch my bro told me how he and his friends launch their boats. He said this is called a speed launch, trust me I do it all of the time. So I did and needless to say the boat rolled off the trailer about 10 ft. shy of the water. You can say I was ticked off.

One of the biggest verbal brawls I have ever seen happen between two brothers at SRR boat launch...they were launching probably a 25 footer....and the one brother was in a big hurry.

Seems someone forgot to put the plug in..the thing sank like a rock at the launch...

If I wasn't so concerned that they were going to start fistfighting I would have enjoyed it more lol

[GaryFisherman]

A few days ago I went to fish a small private inland lake that I never fished before.There had been places where other people had a shanty set up.So I walk over to the spot and started clearing the snow away that had drifted over that area.I set my foot down and kerplunk down inside a hole it went sink my leg all the way into my knee.This hole was big enough for a size 11 boot to fit in:yikes::lol:Anyways It didnt stop me from fishing I just put up with wet leg and foot for the rest of the afternoon.My buddy that I was fishing with sure gotta good laugh out of it.
Aaron


I have never gone through the ice...I was with my dad when he did at Selfridge...he went a little higher than you did..

My older brother had a friend who seemed to always be in the wrong spot at the wrong time...He once fell off the back of a motor cycle with no shirt.

Well, they were walking out to their shanty on Conger Bay and he fell waist deep into someone else's shanty hole...what are the chances of that happening??