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Reply With QuoteIt is a check valve. Water runs out normally. The ball and seat prevents it from running back in.
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Thanks much! Makes me come up with a couple questions. First, why isn't every boat outfitted with this? Seems like a good idea, lol. Except... Second, I wonder if this is legal regarding the many state laws which state that you cannot travel with a plug in the boat, which is to prevent undesirable aquatics being transferred to other lakes.Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
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It is a check valve. Water runs out normally. The ball and seat prevents it from running back in.
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I will go with what I have done stupidly.
1) Got to the lake before everyone else and singing "I am the early bird who will get the worm." "All other fisherman are slackers!" After getting to my fishing spot that is prized before all others, I realize I have no fishing poles. They were left in the garage because I sprayed them down with KVD and wanted to make sure they were dry. So I left them in the garage by a heat source.
2) Got to my favorite honey hole after a 30 minute water drive and was beyond excited to slam a 15 inch crappie!!! After my fan fair pictures were taken, I went to put the crappie into my ice cooler on this 85 degree morning.
Problem was, I left the cooler at home because I had fresh ice put into it the night before and didn't want to leave it in the garage in the heat overnight.
3) Launched my boat from the trailer and watched my boat drift 100's of feet away because I thought the tether was attached. Nothing like asking another boater to fetch my boat.
In my 40 years of fishing these are just a few of the stupid's I have done.
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BigD, I resemble those remarks. As I age, and these things happen more often, it's starting to kind of get to me, lol.
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I talked with a man who had just run a large treble hook through his hand. He said he was heading to the doctor. He got in his truck with the hook stuck in his left hand and still holding the pole with his right and away he went. I gotta believe it would have been much easier to just cut the line and lay the pole in the back.
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Many years ago I got off work on time and rushed home to get the boat. I hurried to the lake, launched the boat and went and parked. When I got back the jon boar was on the bottomin a foot of water. Left the plug out. Takes a long time to bail a boat out with a 20 ounce drink bottle with the top cut off. By time I got it floating and back on the trailer to drain the rest of the way out it was time to head home. I have managed to forget the plug 3 times in almost 30 years of boating
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Was at crappie camp, Mark (Sevenfiftynine) had broken his trolling motor prop and could not find the replacement needed at Truman Lake.
We were leaving a day before him so being the nice guy I am took mine off and gave it to him to use which he returned two days later.
I set it on the counter to remember to put it back on before I went fishing.
Next day took Dave (GotCrappie) to Smithville, ran to our first spot and dropped the trolling motor, could hear is running but we were not moving and not turning?
I only then remembered what I should have not forgotten!
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I set the hook on a striper on a popper one time and it came back to me, and a treble landed in my thumb.
Also was on a friend's boat that just bought a center console. He turned the livewell pumps on, over-filled the livewells in the back, looked back and the separate gas tank for the kicker motor was floating lol.
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forgetting to take hook protectors off crankbaits and spinnerbaits. When I was overseas in the UK, I went to buy some sea bait and forgot to convert my CC for overseas use. Couldn't buy the bait to catch the fish I wanted to catch.
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Watched a guy unhook his boat before backing it down the ramp... with a roller trailer. He said he had just bought the boat and had always unhooked his last boat before backing it in. When I told him that its a roller trailer and you cant unhook it until the boat was floating, he looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language.
Also seen it the other way, two guys loading a boat at the ramp. Guy drops his buddy off to go get the truck and trailer (bunk), guy in the boat runs the boat up on the trailer and then when he stood up to go hook up the strap his buddy starts pulling up. Guy in the boat lost balance and fell down while screaming "stop". well he did stop, very abruptly, about half way up the ramp. boat came flying back down the trailer, made one bounce on the ramp where the water meets the ramp and went right back in the river. I about died from laughing, my dad was trying to shut me up and I just couldnt hold it back.
I can think of one not so smart thing I've done, didnt end badly though. Was walleye fishing in Feb, was 30 or so for a high. When we finally got to the ramp I realized my plug was broken (the threaded part broke and it wouldnt tighten. So instead of going to try and source a new plug I just stuck it in from the inside and grabbed the bolt end from the outside with a pair of hemostats. We fished all day and only took on maybe a gallon of water. Hindsight it was really dumb, if we lost that plug while fishing and didnt realize it before the boat got too heavy to get back on plane we would have been swimming in the middle of a river in 33deg water temp in feb.
