Thread: Very Scary Moment

Probably about the scariest moment I have had in a boat is when I was fishing offshore with a buddy from work for the first time. We had left the rig and were about 2 miles from the rig when his motor quit. He is a very good "car" mechanic so I didn't worry at first but then he said he didn't have any tools to work on the motor! I was shocked. Pretty helpless feeling being stranded out in the big "blue"! I have been run out of the water fishing the marsh by lightening but I have never felt more helpless than that moment offshore oh and that was my first trip with him and I have never made another with him. lol

i was catfishing in the mighty red river. we had had lots of rain and i was new to catfishing. i anchored down in a pretty swift current, only problem was i anchored pointing down stream. when i got ready to move locations, the water was so swift hitting my transom, i had trouble pulling the boat up stream to retreive my anchor. so i decided to crank the outborad and hook a hard right, flip a U, and just drive up stream. when i eased on the throttle to make my U turn, the whole back of my boat went under water. the top of my outboard was out of sight. i panicked and just cut the anchor rope. it was all i could do to get my little 60hp motor to push my boat back to the launch. i pulled my plug when i got it on the trailer and waster ran out for prolly 15 minutes. i was a little rattled, but i learned always to anchor pointing up stream from then on out.

doc

Ran a sand bank in pigeon once. Like to never got the boat out. Had to get out of the boat. For you folks that don't know me. I'm a chicken. Figured i was stuck and no one would find me. Live n learn.

Originally Posted by docwaldo

i was catfishing in the mighty red river. we had had lots of rain and i was new to catfishing. i anchored down in a pretty swift current, only problem was i anchored pointing down stream. when i got ready to move locations, the water was so swift hitting my transom, i had trouble pulling the boat up stream to retreive my anchor. so i decided to crank the outborad and hook a hard right, flip a U, and just drive up stream. when i eased on the throttle to make my U turn, the whole back of my boat went under water. the top of my outboard was out of sight. i panicked and just cut the anchor rope. it was all i could do to get my little 60hp motor to push my boat back to the launch. i pulled my plug when i got it on the trailer and waster ran out for prolly 15 minutes. i was a little rattled, but i learned always to anchor pointing up stream from then on out.

doc

Swift current is one of the most dangerous and scary things there is. So much power in all that moving water. Glad things worked out for you.

Stumps! (and rocks)As many times as Ive knocked into one--- it still scares the mess out of me! The scariest was the time up north in my 20' Inboard Fish & Ski. I was navigating upstream chasing walleye on the Spokane Arm tributary of the Columbia river. Water was low and had a good bit of current, I drifted out of the main channel and got into ROCKS! Not gravel, but big ol boulders. A stump is relatively soft and has a little give and results in a dull thud...Rocks make you feel like you just lost the entire underside of your boat and all your fillings! Ended up with just a little bend in the prob blade tips. Managed to get it 12 miles back to the truck. Wasnt a very pleasant experience...

Mocassin in the pirogue once AND getting sucked under some branches dragging a flat boat up river in 30 degree weather at night………long story.

I had the family (Carolyn and both boys) fishing on the Red River during high water. The river had a very swift current but we where on the pontoon barge. We anchored at the end of a rock jetty in the swift water with the bow facing into the current. We was fishing of the side of the jetty in the eddy catching those small whole eating size catfish as fast as you could bait and throw into the hole. A very large tree came down the river in the current and a fork in the trunk hung the anchor rope and got under the pontoons circling on the rope. The tree was beating on the pontoons and kicking the barge onto the side to where water would come over the floor and almost turn the barge upside down. It threw CAROLYN and both boys down on the floor and almost into the water. I managed to get to the front to the anchor rope and tried to get my knife to cut thr rope but because I was trying to hang on to stay on the barge and cut the rope the knife got knocked out oh my hand and into the river. I could not get the rope loose and the log stayed under the barge forever then it finally broke loose and went on downstream. When I saw that everyone was ok just scared really bad we just there and tried the gather ourselves thanking the good lord for taking care of us. When I got the barge back on the trailer I looked under it and both pontoons was dented and banged up real bad, and one side was almost completely broke off.
The good LORD sure took care of us that day and taught me two great lessons.
first don't get on the river in high water and swift currents no matter how good the fish are biting
and if I anchor a boat I tie off with a slice knot and a log tail so I can get it loose if I have to.

the best part was I called tracker and they told me where to carry the barge for repair, then the replaced a pontoon and fixed the barge at no cost to me.

Heck...I'm glad ya'll are ok....that water is dangerous....be safe....