How many people have been on fishing trip and had tipped over the boat and had someone jump off the boat, all in the same day? Well if not, you will get a kick out of this story. Read it and shakes your head and wonder if it could happen to you.
The Fishing Trip
Well, it was a wonderful day in southeast Oklahoma. Blue skies and a perfect day in June to go fishing. So my friend and I decided to try the river. We heard that the fish had really been biting there. We were staying with my Uncle Billy. He lived about three miles from where the east and west Canadian rivers meet to become the Canadian River. Well any how, we loaded up the 12 foot Jon boat and headed off. This should have been a sign for things to come. My friend (we will just call him Dopey) forgot to make sure the boat was tied down. We did not even get a mile down the dirt road before the boat just slid of the back of truck. Nothing was broken, but Dopey got an ear full. Well… we finally got the boat loaded back onto the truck and made it to the boat ramp. The ramp was nothing but a smooth side on the bank of the river, where we eased the boat into the water. We had a little 4hp Johnson on the back of it. I got it cranked, finally, that took forever and day. Then we started down river to where the two rivers meet. On the way down, we saw a nice little cove to try our luck at. We eased in there real quite not to scare the fish, you know, and started fishing. I caught three limbs and lost two lures. The FISH GODS had not awakened yet, I guess… So we decided to try our luck down river. So… we started up the engine and headed out. We saw some snakes on the side of the bank. Oh Dopey Hates Snakes, really hates them, remember this, i was slowing down to look at them and Dopey said with some emotion, “keep going”. So i spead back up. We saw another nice area and pulled over there. This time we turned off the engine and paddled, you know not to spook the fish. We got our poles out and started fishing. I started using a jig, since I had lost my only two spinner baits earlier on the limbs (yes, the limbs were still attached to trees). Good casting… uh, but any how, I hooked a pretty good one, got him in and was bragging how I was a better fisherman than Dopey. A few minutes later, I got another fish. This one was bigger than the first. Well, that was about it for Dopey, he was switching lures. He asked me what I was using, so I told him. He did not have any jigs, so he asked to borrow one. I said “Ok, they are in the tackle box.” I was in back, Dopey in front. He turned around and reached for the tackle box, and I guess a fly or something landed on his back. Well, he jumped up and yes you know the rest. Bam… the boat tipped over both of us, tackle and all. Well... it took an act of the River Goddess to get the boat turned back over and the poles wrangled all up, but we did. And man, was I pissed. I told Dopey “I hope that was a damn snake on your back because that is the only thing that I would not be mad about.” He said, “Nope… I would know if it was snake, probably a fly or something.” Oh I was so mad. He had ruined my day. I was all wet and lost my favorite pole. Well, we started heading back to the truck and Dopey saw another promising site and he talked me into pulling over. We eased in full throttle this time. I did not care if I scared the fish at this point, and Dopey started fishing. I was thinking… boy, I sure would like to get back at him for tipping the boat over and "Bam" like gravy on biscuits an idea came to me. I am going to make Dopey jump in the water. So I got my little rod out and tied a plastic worm on it. I took the hook out, (I might be vindictive but not mean), and eased the worm on to the back of Dopey. I held on and yelled, “SNAKE” and eased the worm until it touched Dopey. Damn! I have never seen anybody do a complete flip from the sitting position in a boat before, but he did. He swam all the way to shore. It was so funny you had to be there. I felt better now; but it did take two hours to convince him there was no snake in the boat, and that he had been TRICKED. I still think to this day he thinks it was a real snake and that I am just saying that I tricked him to get even. WHAT A DAY!
written by Bryan Edgeworth |
