You have had a bad Day when

[c1bigocarp]

You know you have a bad day when..
You have backed down to load your boat and yoiu exit the truck and hit the lock switch with the motor running. The ramp is very busy and the wife is pointing at me to every fisherman coming in that she didn't do it! She doesn't get to go much anymore! She thought it was funny! It only took 1 hour so for AAA to get there to get my door unlocked. I never get upset at ramps anymore. I just try to help because somedays s**t happens! Same ramp differnt day the starter goes out on the truck while in the water! Thanks to the guy who pulled me up the ramp to start the truck. Good thing it was straight shift! Got to laugh now!

[Mack]

Ivey Freeman went fishing on the Ouachita River and lost two big'uns.
He then had to hire a salvage company to retrieve the treasures.

Rex Dillingham has worked in the river salvage industry for nearly a half century, but on Wednesday afternoon he encountered a career first.
"We can do it, but I've never pulled a RV out of the river before," he said.

The Dillingham Marine Industries will have the task of pulling the 38-foot, 2004 Challenger motor home and a fishing boat out of the water.

Officer Mike Tully of the West Monroe Police Department said the RV and boat virtually slipped into the Ouachita River at about 6 a.m. Saturday at the Lazzare Point launching ramp.

"The gentleman was launching his boat with a 38-foot motor home attached to it when the brakes failed," Tully said. "When I made it out there, I called the Coast Guard in Greenville, Miss."

The boat and RV went 17 miles down the Ouachita River, Dillingham said. "I didn't know (the RV) would float."

Freeman, of West Monroe, said his RV and boat got away from him when he was about to go fishing.

"I was pulling the boat with my RV," Freeman said. "I began unhooking the boat and it almost rolled over me. It shoved me in the water."

Dillingham's crew first found the floating RV and boat Saturday and tied them to a tree in the water.

He and his son Mark Dillingham returned to the scene south of the Sunshine Oil & Storage Inc. facility about 4 p.m. Wednesday, but said it could possibly be the weekend before they are able to pull the boat in.

"Today we're going down there to see the RV and boat," Dillingham said. "Tomorrow we'll dive to survey it. Friday we'll start hooking it up to bring it in. We probably won't pull it in until Saturday."

Freeman said that his RV and boat are totaled, but did not know an estimated cost of the damages.

"I've owned a boat for about 60 years and I've owned an RV for about 50 years," Freeman said. "I'm sure I'll get another one."

Chief Warrant Officer Douglas Chapman of the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Detachment, said that he was concerned about the boat and RV floating south to the Columbia Locks and Dam.

"My concern was if he was going to be able to get it out," Chapman said. "I searched for a salvager and gave him Dillingham's number."

Chapman said he believes the salvaging of the RV and boat should be easy because the back of the motor home is about six feet out of water. He said the RV and boat don't pose a problem now because they've been tied off.

Dillingham said his crew had attached a barge to the end of the RV that was sticking out of the water.

"We're going to float it first and then haul it on in," he said.

Originally published April 6, 2006

[Allen42]

My Daddy & Mama were coming home from Fishing once, The Ball on his truck had been Loose for YEARS , had he tightened it ? nope, Had he replaced it ? Nope, well its some bad humps in the road coming from the lake & sure enough , when the truck hit the bumps the boat came loose , boke the rusted chain & landed on the dolly wheel , sure enough as daddy tried to slow down to try & "catch the boat useing the truck, the Boat used an Earnhart move , taped him & passed all in the same Montion , cept , the Boat lost control & wiped out in the ditch , with a 3 foot hole in the Glass !!

oh yeah , then one of MY stupid moves, I hit the electirc lock on the Jeep once when backing in right at daylight , jeep was running , the one & only ramp was blaocked, LUCKY for me a buddy came by right after it happened & gave me a ride to my house 15 min away ,, left my fishing buddy with the jeep & boat & said that he & I caught the devil while i was gone from a bunch of drunks who had camped all night & fished troutlines lol bless his heart !!

[Deacon]

You know its a bad day after going about 10 miles by boat in the woods of the basin and you stop next to a bream bed someone told you about and your daddy asks you if you got the worm bucket out the back of the truck and you thought he got the bucket.

[wrwest]

I don't know if you call this a bad day or a good day. I was stationed in Alaska, Some friends and I went fishing after work one day. The fishin was good too we were catching trout and grayling. We stopped fishing and cook some of the fish for dinner Then we continued fishin, then I looked at my watch and noticed that we were three hours late for work, the next day You know how it is, when your out having a good time how time flys, plus in Alaska, summer months it really doesn't get dark just kinda twilight. Well we didn't get in trouble. Just watched the SGT. Roll his eyes :D

[Bones]

You know you have a bad day when..
You have backed down to load your boat and yoiu exit the truck and hit the lock switch with the motor running. The ramp is very busy and the wife is pointing at me to every fisherman coming in that she didn't do it! She doesn't get to go much anymore! She thought it was funny! It only took 1 hour so for AAA to get there to get my door unlocked. I never get upset at ramps anymore. I just try to help because somedays s**t happens! Same ramp differnt day the starter goes out on the truck while in the water! Thanks to the guy who pulled me up the ramp to start the truck. Good thing it was straight shift! Got to laugh now!

Been there done that bought 2 t-shirts to make sure I never forgot again.
Reelfoot, end of March 1:00 pm taking boat out. Locked keys in truck on ramp truck running! Extra key 35 miles away and a wife that enjoyed it way too much while I begged her to hurry up and bring extra key. Everyone and I mean everyone that was parked at that ramp decided it was time to leave while I stood there and took credit for the stupidity. It will never happen again. Those hidden key magnet boxes are a nice piece of insurance.:D

[Bones]

This past sunday I went fishing at Kentucky Lake 70 miles from home with a buddy I haven't fished with in years. He recently bought a new boat that is decked out, and I was pretty excited about the whole experience. We get there just in time, maybe 3 boats have put in in front of us. We get in go to the "spot". Put poles out for spider rigging and settle in. About 10 minutes later my buddy decides to go grab his tackle box and I hear him say the dreaded Son of a Birch! I look back and the whole bottom of the boat has calf deep water in it. This is a decked out 19 foot V-hull boat, so you can imagine how much water has been taken in. In come the pole and back to the ramp we head. We get back safely and drain the boat and INSERT PLUG. Get back to the "spot" 30 minutes later and get poles back out. I get a call from my wife and I know it can't be good because she is not a morning person. Answer phone to hear her say she needs me to come home because she thinks she has food poisoning and needs to go to the hospital. I look at my friend and let him know the great news, so we pull the poles back in and head for home. My wife did go to the emergency room when I got home and we did stay at the hospital for 2 nights while they rehydrated her and did their thing. She is a O.K. now, but that ranks up there as one of my best days.

[Bluegillfreak]

I think the two worst that has happend to me and my papaw (im 13) is A( we drove the 50 miles from greeneville,tn to our trailor at douglas lake to find out we had gave the only set of keys to my mom. B( Out on lake started storming bad we cruise back to dock tye up and wait it out it stops storming and about the time we got the boat untyed and cranked boom it startes pouring down again this happend several times withen a hour period and a few times we were a good way from the dock but i do now know rain hurts at 45+ mph

[fish_detective]

Let me tell you about a bad day...
A year ago a number of us went up to Canada Walleye fishing just 26 hours away. At the 23 hour mark (on a pee stop) one of my fishing buddies shut the van door on my right hand breaking three of my fingers.. Knowing that we have went so far for this trip as I told everyone lets keep going as I will try to make the best of it. We got to our fishing area just outside the town of Pickle Lake when I broke out the gray tape and small sticks and began to fix-up my hand. It was hard fishing but it can be done. On the good side of this I did not have to clean one fish that I caught or had to wash the dishes on this trip.. My Fishing Buddies jumped in there and done my work for me...
One thing we all need to think about is that on those bad day's we can look back and SMILE and think WE GOT TO FISH!!!!!

[wrwest]

One thing we all need to think about is that on those bad day's we can look back and SMILE and think WE GOT TO FISH!!!!!

I have to agree with Fish Detective's last sentence. Plus learn to laught at your self. It will make life a little easier.