What is the Stupidest Fishing thing you've seen ?

[Van]

Just a silly pre-season thread.

Quite a few seasons ago, (when i fished alot from land).
I was bait fishing on a local river.
I watched a guy come down, set up next to me, tie on a nice big rebel on a big spin rod.
He threw it way out with a mightly cast. All seemed normal...till..
He did not retrieve it, He just set the rod in a spike and sat in his chair and waited.

Am I missing something???

Share some stories, I'm bored and wanna go fishing......

[CAL]

plug chunkin'

[BigFish]

Thats called "plunkin" Van....a very rare and specialized form of fishing which is done mostly in the state of inebriation by the tribe of indians known as the "Nocatchemfishies"!

[BigFish]

You have all probably seen this but the stupidest thing I have seen while fishing is when I see someone come on the beach and start fishing with their spinning rod upside down! Or the guy I saw getting a running start towards the surf to make a cast???? You know, like he was throwing a javelin or something. You would have thought the guy would realize that his momentum does not follow through to the cast because then he had to come to a complete stop to make the cast!

[Notaro]

The stupid thing I ever did was is to use two 7 inches plastic shads on a hi-lo rig and cast it out at Wollaston two years ago. A friend of mine told me to leave it there...boy, I was stupid to listen to him.

[RI Popper]

That's cute.

OK I've got one: I was taking my sons fresh water fishing at Lincoln Woods for some trout or bass or anything really. And up comes this young man must have been 10 years old with his mother. he pulls out the 9 foot surf rod with what must have been 20 lb test on it and he had a 3 or 4 oz cast master on it. Well looks like he's raring to go, the young man rears back and makes one mighty cast and the large cast master lands about 4 feet in front of him and he had a birds nest that any eagle would be proud to call home. I helped him get it out and he tried and tried to catch some fish with it until he got it stuck on bottom and broke the line. Poor little fellow, I offered him some hooks and worms but he was too heartbroken to fish after that.



by the way. Did the floating rebble tecchnique catch any fish????

[cheferson]

I lost my balance and chucked my rod in the water behind my work. I still get crap at work about this.

[missing link]

Saw a guy drag his outdrive on his boat all the way up his ramp , get out and look, then get back in his truck and keep driving.

[CAL]

Originally posted by BigFish
Or the guy I saw getting a running start towards the surf to make a cast????

Ahh......the Happy Gilmore cast

[Fishaddict]

An older gentleman at Pip's Rip... Holding his fesh water spinning rod upside down.. throwing a big red and white bobber with a Hulla Popper attached (rubber skirt missing of course) .... just letting it drift motionless in the current.. then reeling it in once it drifted along the shore line.. It was classic

The other was a guy putting his boat in the water by himself. Getting out at the ramp, checking his drain plug was in, unhooking his crank wire, making sure everything was okay. And then backing down the ramp, only to watch his boat float off the trailer and straight out into the bay. He never attached a teather line.. The look on his face when he got out of his truck was priceless... Poor guy had to go swimming to get it back..

[Swimmer]

Me swimming in the water after I fell out of the boat.

[JPowers]

Saw a kid in a stolen car being chased by the cops down the canal service road. Car ( with kid) went flying right off the Cape side jetty at Murph's beach. Car floated real nice - Coast guard fished out the kid.

[cheferson]

The lady at monahans pier casting a sabiki rig , when the bass were blitzing

[Mike P]

I've seen a couple of the same things---the "plunkin'" done with a Gibbs mackerel pencil popper attached to a fish-finder rig, and the running-start-javelin-cast, usually finished by the guy holding the rod in one hand from last 3" of butt.

[UserRemoved1]

I passed a kid fishin off the pier in the canal last summer...with a snoopy rod and spinner bait.....I ended up with 100' of line and the spinner bait trailing off my lower unit when I pulled up the ramp. Kid musta thought he caught a whale

[BigFish]

I heard a real good story once about a guy that was fishin' a brand new #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& lure.... ....and he kept getting hit, after hit after hit but no takes!!! Finally the genious realizes that he did not take the hook protectors off the lure! Boy can you imagine??? I wonder if that guy is on this site?

JohnR....do you know him??

[Young Salt]

People fishing bluefish blitzes out of a jet ski. I've seen this more than once. They use both the run & gun and the troll over the blitz technique. One hand on the rod, the other on the throttle. Gotta get a picture of it this year.

[Slingah]

A few years back we took an old bud fishing he was all psyched up in his new waders and Walfart combo 2-piece (which I strongly recomended he not buy). After casting some plugs for an hour or so he's gettin mad he"s not catchin anything yet. So with a big cast he sends the top of the rod sailing loses plug etc..He then proceeds to throw the remainder of his set up into the sand and starts kicking it around. I am laughing my arse off as I watch the top of the rod washing up in the surf right in front of me! I grab the top, walk over to him with a straight face, and hand it to him. Priceless.

[Nebe]

Last fall I put my Ron Arra 9 footah down on the rocks behind me and took a mighty cast with my 8 ft Tica..... I always leave about 4 feet of line hanging off my tip and low and behold, In mid cast I see my Ron Arra go flying over my head and splash down about 2o feet in front of me... This is at Newton Ave in Narragansett so theres no way I'm gonna go get it.. so I just stood there looking at the water thinking about how much I loved that rod....... so I click the bail, reel in and luckily the rod was still attached......I pulled it out of the water and kissed it.

Thank god no one saw me

[UserRemoved1]

Best part Larry is I've heard of 2 others now that did that

Originally posted by BigFish
I heard a real good story once about a guy that was fishin' a brand new #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& lure.... ....and he kept getting hit, after hit after hit but no takes!!! Finally the genious realizes that he did not take the hook protectors off the lure! Boy can you imagine??? I wonder if that guy is on this site?

JohnR....do you know him??

[Moose Nuckle]

There's a friend of mine who was fishing in hull two years ago when a guy in a zodiac came to close to the dock and cought my friends line. The line started to fly off the reel my friend is holding on for dear life trying to fight the zodiac. We are yelling, " Cut the line, cut the line." To late, there was about five raps left on the spool when my friend let go of the rod and away the 10 foot custom rod with the 12000 Shimano Thunas (spelling) reel on went for a swim. Last year my friend found his rod and reel at low tide. The reel still works.

[Lobo]

Many years ago at a ramp in New Bedford this guy and his friend launch the boat. Problem was that the end of the rope was not tied to the boat. As the boat slides off the trailer his buddy pulls the line, finds out nothing attached, panics and makes a flying leap for the bow rail, catches the rail really nice, but now is he hanging off of the bow with his hip waders full of water. The guy that parked the vehicle comes back to the ramp and sees his buddy hanging to the bow rail drifting out to sea due to an offshore wind and jumps in and swims out to the boat. Another boater close by came over and helped these two guys out.

A second funny story was when we showed up at theboat ramp and there is a boat on a trailer jack knifed across the ramp. We watched these two guys jack knife the trailer right and left several times. Finally the guy comes over to us and says "help me please". I hopped in his truck, backed straight down and the guy just stood there shaking his head and thanked me. The real funny part of this story is we come back from a morning of fishing and when we get to the ramp there are the same two guys with the trailer once again jack knifed on the ramp!!!

[UserRemoved1]

oh man don't get me started on ramp stuff....that'd be a whole diff thread
Like the guy last year that had this 1500 pickup....and like a 35' trailer....pulls out about a 37' cruiser....get's 1/2 way up the ramp and can't go no more cuz he's spinning....so I hook my beast up to him and pull the whole thing up the ramp....and the trailer falls off the ball cuz it's the wrong size....only thing holding the trailer to the truck is 2 cheesy chains...."It's ok I'm only going a coupla miles he says"


I unhooked as fast as I could and got outta there before he left

[CustomMarineProducts]

My shop is at Wharf Marina. I do the welding right next to the boat ramp, all summer long. Someday I'm gonna write a book.

[macojoe]

I was waiting at the dock for my buddy to park after launching. This guy backs down the ramp and puts the boat into the water. He going to get out when his buddy starts to talk to him. Well i guess there was something wrong with his buddys trailer so he got out of his truck and went to see his buddys trailer. Leaving his boat attached to the trailer that is now submeriged in the water.
They get about 50 feet from the truck when I noticed that it was moving a little?? I yelled and said hey your truck is moving down the ramp!!! They came running but not before the thing was up to the windsheild in saltwater!!!
Seems he was talking so much he forgot to put the truck in Park or set the Break
Bet he will never do that again!

[TheSpecialist]

You guys may think the plunking thing funny, however with the right plug, and circumstances it works. I have seen it with my own eyes, guy did it with a big swimmer at the Gut, landed a 40+ lb bass.

[KLMulder]

Last fall my Uncle came out for a week from Oklahoma where he lives on the grand lake and fishes for cropie all year. My ol man and I take him out un the boat and find a huge blue fish blitz, all 3 of us grab rods and start in on them. My uncle hooks one and cant believe it he must have a whale. Well pop and I arnt paying and attention to him as we have fish on that is until he starts yellin REAL LOUD. We both turn to see him with a bib blue hangin from his thumb. It finaly lets go and as you can guess the thumb is burger meat. I say lets go in and get that fixed up and my uncle looks at me and said give me some tape ill fix it we are not going in untill their are no fish left that was fun. Moral of the story, if you take a fresh water fisherman out in salt water make sure they know some of these critters have teath.

[quick decision]

I was fly fishing a big school of bass in boston harbor and 2 guys drove there boat right through the school. Then they took out a ultra light spin reels with a 14 inch orange tube eel and tried casting it into the school they just ran through.

[Adam R]

Saw a guy fishing with live eels on a couple of occasions, it's well after dark and he has one of those super bright head lamps straped to his head. Casts the eel out, headlight on and watches his eel from where it lands all the way in to shore.
The eel must must have thought it was on stage.
(it also felt very safe!)

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally posted by TheSpecialist
You guys may think the plunking thing funny, however with the right plug, and circumstances it works. I have seen it with my own eyes, guy did it with a big swimmer at the Gut, landed a 40+ lb bass.

That technique was actually invented by a 30-something year old married guy w/ 3 kids, all under the age of 8. You basically throw your plug out there and plant the rod...and your a$$. then you do nothing, say nothing, and Especially hear nothing for 1 solid hour.

Very Therapeutic