Thread: Flotation Suit Worked

Flotation suit payed off for me this morning. I don’t post much but this is important and might save someone’s life. I was fishing alone this morning at Smithville lake. Was tying up to a bridge pier, while trying to get a rope around the pier I stretched out over the side trying to reach the rope. I saw I couldn’t reach it and was trying to raise up from a knelling position had too many winter clothes on and a very heavy pair of arctic weight muck boots. Wasn’t very mobile and put a hand against the pier to help push and raise up. The boat moved back and I went in the water. It was 37 degrees and 30 ft deep. I have a striker flotation ice suite that my wife bought for me a couple of years ago. I have also watched a lot of videos of surviving falling thorough the ice. I am a pretty good swimmer but don’t think with all the cold weather gear I would have made it out without the flotation suit. I swam around to the back of the boat and straddled the motor and used the power trim switch to raise the motor and lift me up enough to crawl back into the boat (also from watching cold weather survival videos). Hope no ever needs to use any of this. The flotation suit will save your life if you are going to be on the water in winter, especially by yourself, please invest in one.

Worked pretty good.