Wally6 Loc: Nashville Tn.w

Always a lesson learned from our mistakes.would be nice if some of them was not so costly..

Wally6 Loc: Nashville Tn.w

Honestly I worry more about my truck being stolen than I do my fishing gear.its a 1951 ford F-100. Just like the one from Samford and son I have restored it to ment condition.I have a safety security system install that will alert my phone anytime either door is open or the motor running without me entering a code frist it also does more which I will not mention sill I worry. CRAZY.



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Raw Dawg Ron Loc: St. Petersburg, FL

Well every time we go, something is always missing? No matter how much prep, some little thing gets forgotten like the camera!

Wally6 Loc: Nashville Tn.w

I hear youRawDawg. Just prove again the old saying. S..T happen.





Wally6.

Rutinbuck Loc: Haysville, Kansas

When I had been driving, around 17, I had a flat tire in dads car. I pulled over, opened the trunk, unloaded his fishing poles and tackle boxes. I changed the tire and put the stuff back in the car. I got home and told dad about the flat and he immediately went and checked the trunk. No poles or tackle boxes!

We drove back to where I changed the tire and they were gone! Dad never said a word all the way home. He never ever said anything! I would have felt better if he would’ve just beat the crap out of me.

Don’t know where my head was that day. I spent the rest of the summer helping him get new gear!

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Welcome to the Forum, Rutinbuck, That is just one of the joys of raising kids. It wasn't going to do any good chewing your a$$ out.

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

As true as that may be, I'm with him; I'd much rather be getting a whuppin' or an ass-chewin' than the much-dreaded SILENT TREATMENT !

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

I would only call it a joy, YEARS after the fact. That's right up there with crashing the car you give them. Circumstances to be withheld. YEARS to get over that one as well.

plumbob

Killer

I have done it or just left one key item one time I drove for two hours in the dark only to find out my dog had eaten all of my fishing rods in the back of the truck.

MichiganMac Loc: Plainwell, MI

I have been fishing for more than sixty years. I consider myself a common sense, fairly well educated man. I'm retired from a forty year career in education, as a teacher and administrator. Most of my friends, and especially my wife, know me to be a decent problem solver and one that learns from mistakes. I am also a a guy that, on five different occasions, on five different boats, none of which were mine, threw five different anchors overboard with the end of the rope not tied to the boat. My favorite one, the one that makes me laugh the hardest, though, at the time, was not funny at all, now rests in about four hundred feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. Leaning your gear behind is funny too. Let me know when you drive three hundred miles, hike two hours and realize that your fishing with the local police chief and you forgot to get a required license. I did that hunting, not fishing, so it really doesn't count for this forum.

Wally6 Loc: Nashville Tn.w

I agree with plumbobo, when raising children we as parents have countless opportunity to teach life lessons a whipping or a good chewing out would have lasted for only one Day.its obvious your dad silent treatment had a life time effect on you and i am gussing that was your dad reason with the silent treatment you are still talking about it years later.

By. Wally6. Lesson learned.

hookedonfishing

I did one even worse one day.I had the day off work So I got up wife my wife and got ready for a day of fishing. I promised wife I'd be back in plenty of time to check the roast in the crock pot. After following her out of drive I decided to get gas at the lake on the way home. After a great morning fishing I left the lake and stopped for gas,thinking I had just enough time to make it home on time I realized I left my wallet in my work cloths. With noway to contact my wife until she got out of work I went back to the lake and fished until she got out of work. Nothing worse then a pissed of woman after a day of fishing.

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Amen to all of the stories.

dfn Loc: Mobile, Al.

Wally6, just wait till next year and want to ask if you've heard of old-timer's disease? It get's worse, get used to it and adapt to the diagnosis. You lucked out by being married, I have to take a handful of aspirin along with another blood pressure pill when in this quandary. First thing I do as I'm beginning to cry over the spilled milk is to just blow it off. Just yesterday when cleaning out fishing gear after a trip, my $40 worth of Gulp lures/watertight box weren't around and I just knew they were still sitting on the public casting bank, waiting on the next one to catch a surprise and take them to the house. I found these in a first-time use of a fabric bag in the back seat of the car but haven't engrained habit for looking in this bag. Got paranoid earlier with everything you hear now about the locals and knew lures must have been stolen. On a previous outting I caught a good discount on 6 bags Gulp lures only to loose one unopened bag as I was hastily rigging my line to get one in the water. In summary, this too will pass. I maintain to keep it simple, stupid or maybe in my case, you can't fix stupid. Carry on/ give it hell/appreciate married life.

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Nope ! Never dropped anyone's anchor (that I'm aware of), but while fishing with a couple of friends in a rented 16' V-hull, I did come close to losing the tips of three fingers to a snapping turtle ! One of us had caught a small (2 lb.) bass, which I had placed on a chain-link stringer and tossed overboard; when the second bass (about 3 lbs.) was caught, I reached over the gunwale to haul the stringer in; fortunately for me, I was watching as it came out of the water, as it seemed somewhat heavier than I remembered ! Moved my hand just in time, as that snapper was trying to take a better bite out of that bass and just barely missed my fingers !
Regarding that earlier fiasco with the warden when I forgot my wallet with my ID, license, permit, etc.; although I HAD a pistol permit, I'd have been in the poop pretty deep had he asked me to let him check the pistol ! As I found out afterward, in N.H. you're NEVER allowed to have ANY loaded weapon in the vehicle, regardless of permits ! Although he let me go for the situation with the license, I'm pretty sure that would have been a deal-breaker and would have gotten me in much deeper trouble than just the missing license and
permit ! Now I know, but that little miss-step could have cost me big-time !