Mtn's thread made me think of this question.

Years ago I was bait fishing in the Fore river, a guy came down with his girlfriend. He rigged up a rebel swimmer, so all seemed normal to this point.

Then he gave it a mighty cast, let it sink and stuck his rod between the rocks, and sat down for at least an hour before trying to reel it back in. NO BITES go figure !!!!!!
It was so stuck he broke it off anyway and then he left.

Give us some of your favorites.

dumbest?....2 guys in waders, in a borrowed 1 man kayak with no pfd go fishing at night and never return. Sad but dumb.

You want funny stories to tell...For fun I like to go down to the launching ramp on a Sat morn in July with a cup of coffee and just watch the activity. All kind of funny sh*t happens down there.

I don't want to say dumb... how about inexperienced... maybe a little clueless.

Early this year (april) on the cape, when the fish are very small and the water is very cold, a guy waded out near me and started tossing a 3oz. ranger, rippin' it across the top. I felt that had about a 0% chance of success.

At favorite boston harbor schoolie spot, I saw a guy casting a tube'n'worm (minus worm) with a 5' tree trunk boat rod with large reel. The casts were going about 2 rod lengths. I thought that was a little strange.

Last September, I was surfcasting for blues at Smith Pt. This guy is walking the beach, tossin' a plug... he's wearing chest waders. The strange thing was, that when the waves came in, he was backing up so as not to get his feet wet. My wife and I are in shorts and t-shirts, soaked up to our chests... I was thinking "what a wuss."

I don't think any of those beat chunkin' with a plug. Now I could go on and on about dumb things I've seen since I started fishing out of the boat, but that's a seperate and well documented subject. Those people I would call dumb.

I guess I can pass on my favorite... a guy in a 50' party boat inside the harbor chasing breaking fish and birds. After the idiot successfully puts the fish down, with none of his 40 clients having caught a fish, he broadcasts over the vhf that there are a bunch of fish in the area as he's leaving. I thought that was a nice touch.

You know...this spring, Uncle Matt and I were herring fishing the Ditch when this guy comes down with a 4' freshwater pole and a small Rapala. We're laughing our heads off as he's casting away. He starts asking us how to fish with herring and if he can rig it on his little fishing rod. All of a sudden, the jerk gets into a nice striper. The rod tip is practically touching his reel. Wouldn't you know it the kid lands the fish. Now we're feeling like idiots wiht expensive gear and nothing to show for it. He releases it and starts over......BANG....lands another one. We knew that it was time to move on.

How embarassing :smash:

Post fishing reports over the internet.

Very similar to what Van mentioned. About 20 years ago, 4th of July weekend at the Maritime Academy, guy pulls up in a Volvo wearing the full Harvard professor of philosophy get-up---pipe, beard, tweeds, snap-brim cap, the whole nine yards. He rigs up a sinker on a fish-finder, then attaches a Gibbs pencil popper to the end, casts and puts the rod in the rocks.

Launch ramps are always good for a few hoots.

Then there was the night two drunken kids ran daddy's 36' sportfisherman (loaded with 8 Penn International 50W outfits 6and electronics worth more than the boat) up onto the rocks out at Montauk. How they missed that big lighthouse on the bluffs is still kind of a mystery :smash:::happy:

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But I like Sandmans, on Sundays in the summer I use to go down my marina with a couple of beers [[ couple --right]] and sit on the rocks near the edge of the channel and watch the fleet leave Warwick cove and like money in the bank ===cruise into the sandbars on both sides of the channel ///

I guess I,m one of the dumbest== giving fishing reports on the internet,, been there ,done that --------------Lifes tooooooooo short///////////////



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Originally posted by Mike P
Launch ramps are always good for a few hoots.


We could write a book on launch ramps mishaps.
Years ago, my buddy and I went to launch to the old ramp at the gas tanks in dorcester.
We could see something sticking out of the water, but couldn't make it out. There was a guy standing at the edge of the water.

Once we got close enough we realized it was the tip of his open hood. the entire trailer and "cadillac" were under. Needless to say, we headed for another ramp.

taking that last step so your waders fill with water

mike i'm on the dumdum report list with ya.

Is it true? that the more expensive a boat is the harder it is to launch and get back on the trailer?

this past spring, i walked down to my favorite herring hole and there were 2 guys standing there fishing bobbers and rubber worms. they had just pushed their boat up on the grass to fish closer to shore.

Last July I saw a Viking 40 going about 24 knots go right into Brenton Reef in the middle of a clear, bright day. It sank in about 3 minutes. You can't make this stuff up.

Last year when I was docked at a certain marina in Warwick Cove a guy took his new boat out the channel on a windy day and hit just about every out board on the row..ding..ding...ding..ding.. right down the dock.. then the SOB panicked turned her around and hit the same ones coming back until he ran aground on a mud flat. I told him to turn his *(&& engine off and me another guy hauled him in by hand. The next week he put his boat up for sale. Thank God.





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i saw a night time construction light, with 4 huge bulbs, set up at the waters edge and to top it off it was directed at the water. :smash:

TWS -- thats where you should have been fishing/////////////

This past aug while fishing Cold Spring Harbor at 3:00 am 2 guys in a sail boat drunk as a skunk where just rantin and ravin and singging I could hear every word they were saying but nothing made sense. Little they new they were aboat 15 feet to beaching their 40ft sail boat.Out of no where the one guy sees the beach and starts freakin out. It was the funniest thing. I flashed my light at them and called over but they were just laughing at me. A min later they were on the beach and I was laughin at them. :laugha:

True story this summer:
Setting: 4th of July 10 minutes before the parade in Oak Bluffs:
Some fellow has a 40' cigarette speed boat takes his best friend and a couple grandkids to the beach at chappy, after a couple beers he beaches the boat and *leaves it running in gear* his friend hop's over the side, slips and sucked under and his torso get nailed by the SS clever props and opens him up like a can of soup. The owner drags him back onboard (bleeding like mad) and races wide open into the harbor just as the parade was to start. It was a mad house. They got him to the hospital but he died shortly after they got him there. (He bled to death before they could do anything)

I don't think that in either case (the 2 men who went fishing in a kayak in waders at night or the boating event) that inexperience is an excuse for ignorance or just common sense. IMO both moves were dumb. Now I all know we have ALL done something stupid or dumb but generally at some point common sense kicks in and tells you stop what you are doing now....

I recall as a kid I was loading the boat and had a very heavy tackle box in my hands with one foot on the boat and the other foot on the dock. You can guess what happend.:smash: We all do dumb things at some time in our lives...we are all human.

.......Freaks who THINK that a female fishing by herself is going to spend the night with them if they keep hinting at it!!!!!!!! yes it has happened a couple times.......THEY HAD TO BE PRETTY DESPERATE!!!!!! (OR PRETTY DRUNK!lol)


that definately tops my list for "dumbest"!!!

Once, while shore fishing, this guy spent a half an hour trying to reel in a rock he was caught on, the way he had his drag he was fooled into thinking the rock was running with the bait. We knew what was going on but it was just too damn funny to let him know.:laughs:

it was the early 80's and a friend and i were fishing the gulf docks in mt. hope bay. this other guy caught a nice blue probably around 12 or so pounder. stuck his fingers in its mouth to get his hook back... pretty ugly. needless to say he went to the hospital. his fingers were still attached not by much though:smash:

Ouch-thats all i got to say-where was this??:eek:

I know a guy that almost did that same thing with a Blue this year, what was his name? MS571 ummm... no, gillagan, ummm yup, thats it Gillagan.:laughs:

that was very close. i just assumed it was a striper and went to grab by the lip but ended up getting it under the gill plate. i am a strong believer in nets now:

Go to work while the fish are biting..........................

I was with my wife at Quonny this summer and watched in amazement at what must have been a Googan convention.

http://fisheye.striped-bass.com/images/october/googan.jpg

It started with this dude – he has obviously discovered a way to double his chance of catching fish. Later, he worked his way over to his buddy, who was at the edge of a drop off next to a channel marker. The tide was running pretty good and he started casting his rig (a dead eel, hooked through the center of the belly, on a dropper rig with a 2 ounce pyramid sinker…sweet!) just behind the buoy. Within two casts he had managed to snag the chain to the buoy and he started to yell, “I got one! I got one!” He fought that “chain-fish” for about 5 minutes before he realized what had happened.

Finally, I watched a procession of macho skin divers walk past us. They were young teens on a mission. They had a look of grim determination on their faces as they paraded down the shoreline, each equipped with a different type of pole spear; one was a pitchfork style head; another was armed with a Hawaiian paralyzer head; a giant harpoon head; and even a tiny straight tip. These kids were on a mission – what it was, I had no idea. First of all, you’re not allowed to dive in the pond at that time of year – not even for clams! What did they expect to shoot: sharks, killer whales, barracuda, oysters, or mussels? I guess any Sunday afternoon in August you can expect the circus to come to town.

A very capable surf fisherman I know shared this experience with me.

It was a cold and windy February afternoon and I was going a little cabin crazy. I jumped in the car and headed for Narragansett Beach to at least get a little salt air in my face. I pulled up to the small breakwater near the Coast Guard House and this guy is casting off the wall and retrieving like crazy. I shut the car off and just watched. This guy was fishing with a vengeance! I had to get out of the car and ask him what the hell he was after. I approached him and asked, “Hey, what are you fishing for?” He replied, “I’m after bluefish. This is a great spot for them! I KILLED them here last August!”

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That picture is a scream. I can't even imagine what he is thinking.

I'm gonna print for display !!!!:D

...:laughs: he was probably P - ing too.....:smash:

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I was out with my brother and a few friends las Auguts in Boston Harbor and as we were returning from a nice day on the water, we noticed a rather large (40'+) sailboat grounded on one of the few rock piles (that are clearly marked). What amazed me was that they had run aground around HIGH tide and the Coast Guard was unable to get them off until the next high tide IN ABOUT 4-5 HOURS.

I was fishing from the Powder Point bridge in Duxbury last year an noticed a guy fishing next to me that was getting strike after strike on macj chunks, but kept losing the fish under the bridge.
I approached him after the third loss and asked what kind of line he was using. He said 8 lb test (on a freshwater reel). He couldn't understand why he kept losing all the fish. I graciously explained that he would need stronger line.

My own story involved that same bridge. I was fishing with mack and clams on a couple of rods. I also had a small jigging rod set up to catch ANYTHING down below (flounder hook).
I had tied the other rods off but forgot the jigging rod. Wouldn't you know that was the one that got the bite, and was pulled over the railing in a heartbeat. I wasn't too upset because it was my fault, and the rod and reel were in really rough condition. As fate would have it, while retreiving one of the other rods, I hooked the line from the jigging rod, and managed to get it back. The fish had run around the bridge pylons and broke off.

What's the dumbest thing I ever saw a fisherman do?

This guy I know took his girlfriend to the Cape for a week some years back and while there asked her if she'd like to try surfcasting- - -she'd never been before. So he took her to West Dennis Beach where the blues were chasing baitfish up an down the beach. He gives her his best rod and reel combo to use. It was elbow to elbow and she'd never used a rod that big before, but he wanted her to be right in the thick of it (he was braindead in love). Well her first cast went parallel to the beach about 50 yards to the right crossing about 7 other guys' lines and pissing them off. Her next cast went further to the left over equally as many more lines, more pissed off fishermen. This guy gets pissed and yells at her and she throws his rod in the wet sand and steps on the reel pushing it into the sand and walks away while everyone on the beach stared him down for being such a putz. Well she ended up marrying me, but needless to say we don't fish in crowds anymore.

This may not be the absolute dumbest, but it sure did make me laugh. I went to the beach on a Saturday afternoon early September of this year. It was sunny and nice, and there were still a lot of tourists around. I found a school of blues with peanut bunker trapped in the pocket of the beach and the west wall, and proceeded to catch some fish on my small rod and popper -- nice warm wading in shorts and a tee. A few more guys came down the beach and also were into them. Everythings fine, nobodies getting tangled, and the fish were hanging there.

I catch another one, and when I stop to take the fish off, this frat dude comes down and starts fishing right in front off me. He's got a pool cue of a boat rod, with a HUGE spinng reel - Pen 850 I think, held UPSIDE DOWN :laughs:

Now the first wave had a bunch of red weed mung, so you had to skip your popper over it to not get fouled -- but this guy has a crankbait that he drags thought the mung, so he has to stop and clean it off after every cast. Meanwhile, me and the guys on the other side kept hooking up, and the fish came in just outside the first wave. He gives up cleaning and starts casting away, and ends up with about ten feet of his line covered in Mung, but he just kept reeling it in, all piled up on his guides, and whipping it out about 15 feet again :smash: He never did get a fish