Funniest/worst things you have done at the launch

[FF_T_Warren]

Originally Posted by Wide Open

18 yrs old , all excited after the morning hunt, and pulling into the parking lot of the sporting goods to get more shells for the nxt day, I hooked a curb at warp speed and flipped my rig on its side in the lot (14x36)with(20hp godevil) and drug it about 20 ft . Before realizing!
A bunch of customers standing @ front counter, and friends that worked there all ran out to see my F u G up!!! Lol

Boy I was mad and even more embarrassed! My adrenaline shot soo high I got out my truck and clean/jerked that beeoooch up rite and rolled right back outa there dragging the the tire and wheel at a 22.5 degree angle!

I've matured a lot since then

Im dying laughing LOL

[Matt G]

Originally Posted by Sightwindow

In an hurry on a solo trip in Venice one weekday afternoon. Backed in 16 foot boat, pushed it easily off trailer, jumped aboard, puttered over to dock to tie it up, stopped to chat with someone, then took off for the trip. Came back four hours later at dark, truck and trailer in same spot, truck still running.

At least you didn't have to wait in line to back your trailer in the water!

[Sightwindow]

Originally Posted by Matt G

At least you didn't have to wait in line to back your trailer in the water!

It was a double launch. Believe you me, if anyone - especially anyone I knew at the marina - had been put out for more than two seconds because my rig was in the way, it'd have been parked Lord knows where!!

[CustomRod]

Ready to retrieve boat after fishing by myself. Large busy ramp, three lanes with room to launch 3 boats per lane if folks are orderly. I had squeezed the trailer between two others then walked back to where my boat was tied up. As I motored around to line up, I wasn't seeing my trailer, but heard people yelling. Reason I couldn't see was a guy with a brand new Hewes flats boat was pulling up onto my trailer. People yelling were his party from another lane. I give him credit for being persistent, he kept trying to motor up even after he had broken both my guide/light poles. At least he didn't bend the frame or hit the back of the truck. I was too torqued to do anything but laugh. I'm not sure he liked being called Skipper in front of everyone.

[FF_T_Warren]

Originally Posted by CustomRod

Ready to retrieve boat after fishing by myself. Large busy ramp, three lanes with room to launch 3 boats per lane if folks are orderly. I had squeezed the trailer between two others then walked back to where my boat was tied up. As I motored around to line up, I wasn't seeing my trailer, but heard people yelling. Reason I couldn't see was a guy with a brand new Hewes flats boat was pulling up onto my trailer. People yelling were his party from another lane. I give him credit for being persistent, he kept trying to motor up even after he had broken both my guide/light poles. At least he didn't bend the frame or hit the back of the truck. I was too torqued to do anything but laugh. I'm not sure he liked being called Skipper in front of everyone.

LOL a buddy did that with my trailer too. we just watched him try about 5 times before we let him in on the secret. he would back up and try it again. finally we had to tell him or we woulda been there all night

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by Sightwindow

In an hurry on a solo trip in Venice one weekday afternoon. Backed in 16 foot boat, pushed it easily off trailer, jumped aboard, puttered over to dock to tie it up, stopped to chat with someone, then took off for the trip. Came back four hours later at dark, truck and trailer in same spot, truck still running.

Holy chat, this one takes the medal.


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[fishaholic82]

We were fishing the Tangipahoa River near Ponchatoula. As I was going to get the truck to pick up the boat a neighbor that had went fishing with me was sitting on the dock holding the boat with his feet. Well he didn't realize that a big lab was on the dock behind him and the dog mistook him for one of the docks pillings. That dog pissed all over his back. I was dying laughing and I had to make him ride in the back the truck home cause he stunk so bad.

[duck enticer]

When I was about 10 or 11 we were launching our boat at the launch at Sabine Headquarters canal. My dad put the boat in the water and I was supposed to hold the rope. Thats it, hold the rope. Well, somehow or another I drifted off into lala land and so did the boat. As the boat was drifting away my Dad comes back and starts hollering. He made me jump in the water with about 2 or 3 gators and get the boat. I remember looking at my legs as I was pulling the boat back to launch, just waiting for a gator to come and chomp on em. I was really mad at him that day for making me do that. I also realized on that day that gators don't really mess with people.

[Jadams]

Put some slick spray on my trailer boards backed up boat slid right off floating across intercoastal in feb cold *** swim lol

[Ray]

Launched at Calcasieu Point. 40 deg. air temp. 45 deg. water temp. 25 mph winds, muddy water.
Launched, parked the truck while Jordan and Landry putt putted the boat to the dock.
Hauled butt to Turners and noticed the bilge pump kicked on twice. Both times pumping a full stream.
I hollered F***. I forgot the plug.
Jordan looked at me and said, "I noticed it pumped a few times while sitting at the dock waiting for you to park the truck"...

[Jordan]

Originally Posted by Ray

Launched at Calcasieu Point. 40 deg. air temp. 45 deg. water temp. 25 mph winds, muddy water.
Launched, parked the truck while Jordan and Landry putt putted the boat to the dock.
Hauled butt to Turners and noticed the bilge pump kicked on twice. Both times pumping a full stream.
I hollered F***. I forgot the plug.
Jordan looked at me and said, "I noticed it pumped a few times while sitting at the dock waiting for you to park the truck"...

good day, caught a pelican also on a ba-donk-a-donk. Ray tried to put plug in int he 39* water. He said fug it and we went back to launch, put boat on trailer, put plug in, went back fishing. Scratched that day i think

[1fastmerc]

Originally Posted by Ray

Launched at Calcasieu Point. 40 deg. air temp. 45 deg. water temp. 25 mph winds, muddy water.
Launched, parked the truck while Jordan and Landry putt putted the boat to the dock.
Hauled butt to Turners and noticed the bilge pump kicked on twice. Both times pumping a full stream.
I hollered F***. I forgot the plug.
Jordan looked at me and said, "I noticed it pumped a few times while sitting at the dock waiting for you to park the truck"...

Lol


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[Tightline11]

Launched the boat at 210 and someone was running late so had to launch it solo, no problem do what I always do. Got the boat off the trailer pulled up next to the long seawall and put the power pole down to hold it in place like I have done in the past. The power pole is down on the outside of the seawall. Walked to the truck and parked when I walked to the boat it drifted around on the power pole where I couldn't get to it. Walked up to where the parish employees were standing around and used two pole duck taped together with a paint rolled ducked tapped to the end and pulled the boat back around. Then the fishing partner showed up.


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[Goooh]

Originally Posted by Matt G

At least you didn't have to wait in line to back your trailer in the water!

Good call, I think I'll try that out next time I launch at delcambre!!


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[weedeater]

Took my wife, we were dating at the time, crabing by 2-10 bridge and she decided she needed the restroom so I ran up Contraband Bayou to the marina to let her go. We pulled up to one of the slips and she was sitting on the front of the boat so I told her to grab the dock and hold on so I could tie the boat off when the wind decided to blow the boat away from the dock..... needless to say, when I herd the splash and turned around she still had both hands on the dock but she was completely under water...... she still says I pushed the boat

[1fastmerc]

Originally Posted by weedeater

Took my wife, we were dating at the time, crabing by 2-10 bridge and she decided she needed the restroom so I ran up Contraband Bayou to the marina to let her go. We pulled up to one of the slips and she was sitting on the front of the boat so I told her to grab the dock and hold on so I could tie the boat off when the wind decided to blow the boat away from the dock..... needless to say, when I herd the splash and turned around she still had both hands on the dock but she was completely under water...... she still says I pushed the boat

LMBO. I wish I could've seen that.


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[quackills]

These guys had a bad day after a hunt. They decided to launch on the side to the road well needless to say the truck won. Ol boy said his dad just bought that trailer to. Had to stop and help them pull the boat out of the water.

[outdoorsman]

I used to take the bow line off my boat when I would put it on the trailer. I was in a hurry one day one a trip by myself and forgot to hook the rope to the the boat, I tied it to the trailer but not the boat. Backed into the water and my boat never stopped. I did not have to swim for it as there were lots of boats coming in from fishing, and someone was nice enough to get it for me, but boy I was embarased. I have never taken the bow line off sence.

[Chip Landry]

After fishing at Big Alabama me and my podna was hauling azz down the pot holed gravel rd in Shurburne and I swerved to miss a hole and the boat and trailer hit one of the telephone poles that are pretty much in the road.. Put a big scuff on the boat, blew out the tire and bent the axle!! A Good Samaritan with a camp on the river that happened to have a torch at the camp helped us out and we limped back to Lafayette... And did I mention my podna borrowed the boat from a guy he worked with... This was in our destructive days of high school!!!

[ScubaLatt]

Launced my 27' Grady White offshore boat at Hebert's landing on Big Lake at 4:30 AM one saturday to head offshore. Told my brother to put in plugs. he put in only one of the two. We were running by radar and came across a crab trap that hung in my starboard prop. Stopped boat to untangle and when I tried to get on step 5 minutes later the boat just porpoised. Opened rear hatch and saw water over top of generator! Asked brother if he put both plugs in and he said he thought there was only one! Put on both bilge pumps and limp back to Hebert's. Got there and there was a line a mile long by then. Jumped out and told Capt Sammie to stop traffic so I could put boat back on trailer. After 20 minutes of water draining re-launched boat at 6:00 am. Cost of replacement generator: $5,600!