Re: Jerks
A few years ago, I was fishing for sockeye on the Chilkoot River near Haines, Alaska, with my dad and others in my family.<br /><br />It's crowded on the river there most of the time, and everyone's fishing the same area, so a pattern is established. Each fisherman cast in turn, then began the retrieve. The next fisherman downriver then cast, and so on. It worked really well, and everyone helped with the nets. When someone yelled "Fish on!" everyone retrieved their lines while the fight was on.<br /><br />Well, there was a big rock just downstream from where all the fishermen were standing. Some folks fished there, but they were out of the pattern and fished a different part of the river.<br /><br />This one guy...with a cooler full of beer...climbed up on top of the rock. He had already had a few of those beers, I suppose. He immediately started casting across the established pattern, fouling lines and creating some...shall I say...ill will with the dozen or so fishermen upstream of him.<br /><br />After words were spoken, he started fishing out of the pattern.<br /><br />Every once in a while, someone would hook up and the Sockeye would head downstream...below the rock, forcing the fisherman to go around the rock and downstream to continue the battle. The guys on the rock, normally, would duck low so the line could pass over.<br /><br />Well, this same drunk guy didn't quite get the drill. The man fishing above me hooked up, and the fish ran downstream. He hollered to the guy to duck. Instead, the guy whips out his sheath knife and cuts the man's line. That almost led to blows, but things calmed down.<br /><br />A little later, I had the same thing happen to me...my fish headed past the rock. Now, I didn't really care whether I actually landed that fish, since it was probably foul-hooked, as most of them were that went that direction.<br /><br />So, as my line was heading past the rock, I raised my rod tip, like all the others did, and yelled "Duck!" The guy reached for his knife again, just as I expected. What happened next was one for the funny videos show.<br /><br />Instead of trying to lift my line over his head, I brought it down, instead, behind his little cooler. With a nice sideways motion, I just bumped his cooler into the river. He tried to grab it, and followed the cooler, right into the drink.<br /><br />A loud cheer broke out among those he had been annoying all morning. The guy's buddy fished him out of the river and they went somewhere else to continue their fishing.<br /><br />I can still hear that cheer, along with the "OH, SH**" from the guy as he slipped off the rock trying to save his beer.
i think he was a bit scared cause he jumped off and swam to his buddy and they both took off leaving me a nice jet LOL keep that the dock for a few hours till there dad came along and wanted to know what happened and he got the full story from me and some others and he gave me the jet ski and a few weeks later sold it for some good cash