Safety with a fishing buddy.
Mar 1, 2020 14:12:53 #
Yesterday I was fishing with 3 'old guys'..no offense intended, I love fishing with old dudes. Heck, I'm old. One hooked a huge cat, we saw the cat, about 20#, the line snapped and the old dude fell backwards...broke his hip. If he had been fishing alone he would have been hard pressed to get his phone out of the truck and call for help.. ambulance came, firetruck came, city cop came. He was transported to the hospital which was located just across the lake. Any close calls for y'all?
Mar 1, 2020 14:28:10 #
No'...but how sad but good thinking on your part.....bet he never went with you again...(joking)
Mar 1, 2020 15:40:40 #
Mar 1, 2020 16:40:32 #
Honestly, I do stuff like that all the time. I've never actually broken anything on my body while fishing, but scrapes, cuts, bruises I've had more than my share. When I get home my wife always asks "how many times did you fall?" One of the best was a long time ago when my kids were still kids, four of them, and I told them trout fishing with me, bank fishing, and we're sitting on the bank and a game warden pulls up. We had gone down a pretty steep embankment, about 10 feet or so down from the road, so the warden asked me to climb up and show her my license. I did, and she let me know that I could go back down to the kids. Now this gal was gorgeous and her good looks had distracted me from what I was doing and I slipped and fell down the bank, doing sort of an awkward ugly cartwheel in the process. Now in those days I was a pretty athletic guy and so somehow I managed to get into the cartwheel a little and I landed on my feet. My kids were laughing and pointing at me, and the warden was "are you OK?" I just walked back over to my rod like PeeWee Herman as if to say "I meant to do that." If I did something like that now I'm sure I'd break my neck. At least.
Mar 2, 2020 11:57:55 #
Good point WH. I’m only 64 but I go by myself a lot. Rock hopping and leaving my phone in the truck. Probably not the best idea. I can’t stand my phone going off while I’m fishing so I leave it in the truck. Maybe I’ll start zipping it in my back pack and just leave it off. I did, however, witness and help an older gentleman that slipped and fell off the rocks last year on the Columbia River. He didn’t break anything but he sure had some dandy cuts and bruises. He was 75 years old and pretty active but kinda knocked himself out. I was a couple hundred yards down the river and glad I saw it. He may have been in a little more trouble had I not been there. He couldn’t get himself up very easy, kinda upside down with his leg stuck down in the rocks.
Mar 2, 2020 12:05:43 #
That could have been me Catfish h. Sounds exactly like the kind of stuff I do all the time. But I don't remember being on the Columbia last year.
Mar 2, 2020 12:11:05 #
Catfish hunter wrote:
Good point WH. I’m only 64 but I go by myself a lo... (show quote)
Turn the ringer to silent and keep it where you can get to it easy.
Mar 2, 2020 12:11:59 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
That could have been me Catfish h. Sounds exactly like the kind of stuff I do all the time. But I don't remember being on the Columbia last year.
Goes for you too.
Turn the ringer to silent and keep it where you can get to it easy.
Far as that goes everyone should.
Mar 2, 2020 12:20:48 #
I most always have my phone with me and it doesn't bother me if it goes off while I'm fishing - I've learned to totally ignore it. Problem is some of the places where I fish, there is no mobile service available. I make sure if I'm going there that I let my wife know where I'm headed ahead of time.
Mar 2, 2020 12:21:15 #
Weekend Hooker wrote:
Yesterday I was fishing with 3 'old guys'..no offense intended, I love fishing with old dudes. Heck, I'm old. One hooked a huge cat, we saw the cat, about 20#, the line snapped and the old dude fell backwards...broke his hip. If he had been fishing alone he would have been hard pressed to get his phone out of the truck and call for help.. ambulance came, firetruck came, city cop came. He was transported to the hospital which was located just across the lake. Any close calls for y'all?
Just makes you a dudette
Mar 2, 2020 12:21:28 #
Mar 2, 2020 12:23:29 #
I wonder how my grampa made it 94 years without a cell phone🤔.
Mar 2, 2020 12:23:30 #
Catfish hunter wrote:
Well, Spirit, you did hit your head pretty hard😂
Probably like most of us not the last time and for sure was not the first.
A lot on here are mature but fragile.
Mar 2, 2020 12:24:00 #
Catfish hunter wrote:
I wonder how my grampa made it 94 years without a cell phone🤔.
Peacefully
Mar 2, 2020 12:24:59 #
And here I thought all these years I couldn't be hurt by hitting me in the head. Maybe all them thumps are coming home to roost?
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