Ok so I think this trip has/had the potential to trump all dumb trips....

I was planning on going tubing down the nolichucky for smallmouth bass. My dad had a tube and I had a tube. My dad was in town visiting...wanted to put him on smallies.

We each had a spinning rod with a spinnerbait on it......We paid 20 bucks for the shuttle guy to drop our car off at the end of a probably what I thought was 7 hour but in reality was a 13 hour drift lol....Thats the first dumb part....but not close to the dumbest.

We launched our tubes after being dropped off by the guy and start our drift. instantly we are getting smallies as we drift thru rapids. Epic.

5 minutes into a 13 hour drift, I go to make a whip cast to some rocks and my rod shatter snaps mid way up! Cracks so loud that my dad looks over even heard it over the sound of the rapids...Sounded like a shotgun.

So wow, that was my only rod. Its now a 2 foot rod with the only eye nowwhere near the top end of the 2 feet. So I have a 13 hour drift ahead of me and im already DONE.

DUMB.


How did the rest of the drift go?

I caught about 20 smallies on that shattered rod. Casting was retarded..Since there was no eye anywhere near the top of the rod it constantly got wrapped up, but even more, I had absolutely no potential for accuracy on my casts. I would literally just lob the spinnerbait to the sky and hope the wind took it somewhere good. lol.

so dumb.

Even dumber.......

At about 7 PM I realized that we were still hours away from where our car was parked....

so as dark settled in around us, the rapids became harder and harder to manuever with the tube. rapid after rapid in the pitch black turns in the river, big rapids, just ruining us....finally hours later we reached where the car was.

DUMB.