Tell me a story

[Jeremy A]

Ok, it's sunday, and I am stuck here at work with very little to do. I have looked up everything I can think of in the internet and now I am falling asleep. so for who ever is around today, tell me a story about hunting or fhishing. Those are by far the best posts to read IMHO, I don't even care if they are true or not.

Who's the best writer here?

[rich]

well i was out fishing lake erie near buffalo, just out for a little while to mix the stablizer threw the motors and just put a line out for the ##### of and i couldt freakin believe it some thinghit a home silver spoon. i fought this thing for 35 min, i thought it was a dead body or a tire. when i got it near the boat i couldnt believe my eyes it was a STURGEN. weighedabout 35 lbs./ then i woke up

[MK]

Here's one. True one, you can't make this kind up.

July 4th, about 10 years ago. My wife and I and about 8 friends at a small cabin on a lake near Muskegon MI. Lake's about 1/2 mile across and 1 mile long, about 90' deep in middle. No kids that day so the group is mixing long island ice teas by the pitcher.

About midnight me and a buddy decide that it would be cool to shoot off fireworks from the paddle boat in the middle of the lake. (alcohol, fireworks, deep lake, middle of the night, no trouble expected here, right) So we lower the paddle boat, grab about a dozen rockets and take off.

About halfway out we notice the paddleboat is listing to one side. We think nothing about this of course and keep going until it really starts leaning and then all of the sudden flips over. You guessed it, we didn't know paddle boats had drain plugs, or in out case, no drain plug.

We yell for the wives to come get us in the rowboat and luckily they hear us. They paddle out and we tell them to throw us a rope so they do. We tie it on to the paddleboat and they take off head off back to the dock. They get about a hundred yards away before they realize we're yelling for them to come back and tie the rope onto their boat.

Needless to say, we finally made it back. Keep this in mind next time you tell someone to throw you a rope. It was like something out of the three stooges.

I think we've grown up some since then. Next time we've had too much to drink and decide to shoot off fireworks from a boat in the middle of a cold, deep lake, we'll at least take along a life jacket.

Merry Christmas to you and yours and happy holidays to all at WC.

[Jeremy A]

Now that's what I am talking about...

funny stuff, glad you are all here for this xmas after that one.

[Bob in KY]

While fishing one evening up Licking River on Cave Run Lake in Morehead KY, casting plugs around timber I noticed a squirrel playing along the bank. He was running back and forth sorth of frantically at waters edge. After several minutes and while trying to figure out what he was doing or tying to do, I noticed a hickory nut laying on top of a broken down tree aprox. 15' to 20' from the bank.

Well more time has went bye now and that squirrel has just about had enough. He runs up the bank a little ways, stops and turns and makes a mad dash for that hickory nut. He lands on top of that broken tree and finally gets that nut. Must of been real hungry.

After finishing that nut, he looks around wondering - what am I going to do now. He has nothing but water between him and shore. He is circling that tree stub trying to figure out how he is going to to get back to shore without getting wet. This goes on for what seems like 10 to 15 minutes. I'm thinking, this is going to get interesting, I am going to stay close to see what happens.

Finally he just goes for it and lands in the water. About half way back to shore, the water errupts and a big muskie devours that squirrel. That muskie must have been 50+ inches. I had never seen one that big. I had heard from the locals that they were in there, but this was my first experience of seeing one. I was astonished. To think, a muskie..., eating a squirrel!!!!!! I had never heard of such a thing, let alone seeing it.

After gathering my composure, I started on up the treeline. I turned back to take one more look when I noticed another big swirl in the water just in front of that same tree stub. A minute or so later, there was another swirl. WHAT IS GOING ON?

To my astonishment, their, on top of that tree stub, was another hickory nut. hummmmmm.........

HOW ABOUT THAT.

KY BOB
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS :)

[Ripstik]

I was out trolling cranks with my springer "Annie".Some time had passed without a bite,so I thought I would have a sandwich and some chips.You guessed it.Down went one of my rods.I jumped up,my sandwich and chips hit the floor and annie ate them.I pulled in a 2lb.13oz. white bass.Ah ha,I think this is a master angler,so to the live well I go.When I open it my minnow bucket was open inside.I'll catch them later.Into the well goes the fish.About an hour later I get to the bait shop to get a weight on my fish and when I open the livewell no minnows? I took the fish in to weigh and it weighed 3lbs. right on the nose.

[Dakota Kid]

Being an avid dynamite fisherman I was warned that the local gamewarden was looking forward to arresting me next time I used my unusual method of filling my boat with fish. So I did the best thing that I could think of and that was to invite him to go with me which he gladly agreed to, thinking I would make it easy for him to arrest me. Well the day finally arrived and we both got in my boat, me with my dynamite and him with his fishing pole, about half way out into the lake I lit a stick of dynamite and was just about ready to throw it in when the game warden said if I threw it in the lake He was going to arrest me, so I handed it to him and asked him if he was going to fish or talk.