JamesCoste
Chief Petty Officer
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- Jun 15, 2003
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Some of the less-than-smart things I have done while boating/fishing.<br /><br />1. After leaving the bait shop with my cricket cage full, I put it in my live well of my Kennedy Kraft boat. After I get to the lake for a day of bream fishing I open the live-well door to find 100 drowned crickets. trapped in my cricket cage. Kind of ruined the fishing.<br /><br />2. While white bass fishing on Lake Talquin near Tallahassee, Florida, in the "dead of winter", I took my bucket of crawdads filled with crawdads and shallow (1/2") water and put it in the bow of the same Kennedy Kraft and head up river. After about a 25 minute ride up river, I stop to fish and my poor crawdad's are frozen in the water to form a crawdad frisbee-shaped block of ice. Kind of ruined the fishing.<br /><br />( have since learned on this site that I could have used some of the hot water from the motor to possibly thaw the now-dead crawdads and at least had dead bait.)<br /><br />3. I recently discovered that young male kittens and a cricket cage in the garage just don't mix. The curious cats tipped over the cricket cage and my crickets were in the garage for weeks. No bait makes for a bad fishing trip.<br /><br />One last embarrasing 
story.<br /><br />While bream fishing (yeah, I like to panfish) in my old Gheenoe, I used to skull (msp?) with a paddle to get into tight places. After setting the paddle across the bow in front of my knees, I would fish. Ocassionally a fish would swallow a hook deep and I would get my small needle-nose pliers to retrieve the hook. I would then put them on the flat part of the paddle since it was right in front of me. You guessed it, when I decided to move, "plop" there go the pliers, to the bottom of the silty lake. What makes it worse, is that my "extra" pliers suffered the same fate not 30 minutes later for the same reason. I just had to laugh. <br /><br />And, yes, I've pulled a boat back out half-full of water due to leaving out the plug and I've unsuccessfully launched the boat after 4 or 5 times with the transom straps attached to the trailer. When I have fishing fever, I lose what common sense I have in me.
story.<br /><br />While bream fishing (yeah, I like to panfish) in my old Gheenoe, I used to skull (msp?) with a paddle to get into tight places. After setting the paddle across the bow in front of my knees, I would fish. Ocassionally a fish would swallow a hook deep and I would get my small needle-nose pliers to retrieve the hook. I would then put them on the flat part of the paddle since it was right in front of me. You guessed it, when I decided to move, "plop" there go the pliers, to the bottom of the silty lake. What makes it worse, is that my "extra" pliers suffered the same fate not 30 minutes later for the same reason. I just had to laugh. <br /><br />And, yes, I've pulled a boat back out half-full of water due to leaving out the plug and I've unsuccessfully launched the boat after 4 or 5 times with the transom straps attached to the trailer. When I have fishing fever, I lose what common sense I have in me.
