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swimbaitSun Jul-10-11 09:27 PM
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#11946, "Your dumbest trip ever"


  

          

Reflecting back, what is the dumbest trip you have ever been on? Drove the furthest, fished the longest, caught the least. You know what I mean :)

Two come to mind for me, one fresh and one salt:

The December so-cal trip with Nico. Nico drove from the bay area to Atascadero. We took my truck from there and drove to So-cal for about a week with the jon boat in tow.

The weather was crap and the fishing was worse. We started at Castaic Lagoon and the campground was closed so we went to Piru around midnight. Fished Castaic the next day and caught 2 bass, the highpoint of the trip. From there it just got uglier and uglier.

Fished LMV most of the day and part of the night for just about nothing. I had one hit. I think Mark caught a 2pounder.

Went to Perris on a flat calm beautiful day and caught 2 bass, all day. One was blind and near death. Nico hooked a carp, briefly. We were the only fools camping that winter night.

Tried Diamond Valley in my boat and missed the AM trout plant due to getting lost. Got pounded around in the waves and caught 1 fish the entire day, a striper.

Wanted to go do Silverwood but it was snowing, so we took our dead striper to bass pro shops, then to Mark's house, then to Casitas. The traffic was unbelievably bad. Something happened with Nico, an energy drink, and a locked bathroom door at a gas station. We'll leave it at that.

It rained all morning. At Casitas we caught a fishing rod, a derelict stocker trout and a water logged huddleston. Then we drove home.

Grand total. 1 striper and 4 bass. 2 nights at Mark's house watching mukie videos, and one super awesome trip to bass pro shops.

My all time saltwater trip was with some guy I met at my old job. It sounded really good on paper. 28 foot boat, two engines, half moon bay, salmon.

In the morning it was one engine won't start, crap where did my downrigger go (yeah it fell off the boat while underway), both engines are overheated, oh it's a fuel problem.

Followed by: Snagging the remaining downrigger ball in kelp, the boat reeks of chemical toilet, the fleet is 10 miles away, the swell is 12 feet.

Shockingly we caught 3 salmon. Proving that salmon are indeed just anchovies that grew up and decided that rivers are cool. We finished the day at low tide docking the boat. "Hey do you see that sandbar?" huh? "Turn the boat now!!!" We survived.

Can't wait for the next one.

  

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RE: Your dumbest trip ever, Mattlures, Jul 10th 2011, #1
RE: Your dumbest trip ever, Nico, Jul 11th 2011, #2
      RE: Your dumbest trip ever, swimbait, Jul 11th 2011, #3
           RE: Your dumbest trip ever, Jeremyfisher, Jul 11th 2011, #4
                RE: Your dumbest trip ever, swimbait, Jul 11th 2011, #5
                     RE: Your dumbest trip ever, Jeremyfisher, Jul 11th 2011, #6
                     RE: Your dumbest trip ever, Nico, Jul 11th 2011, #7

MattluresSun Jul-10-11 11:26 PM
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#11947, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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Dumbest trip for me. It was probably 5 years ago. I went sight fishing at Dixon. After spending probably 4 hours looking I found nothing big enough to fish for. Then I remembered I brought a couple trout bait prototypes. The were around 9in and full bodied. they were protos so the internal rigging was borrowed from another bait that had a single top hook that was too small for the bait. I think it was a 3/0. I had no stinger hook rigged on it.( I am sure you guys know were this is going) So I hucked it out there just so I can see it swim. Well of course I get bit and of course its huge. I would guess 15lbs. The fish jumped twice, and the 2nd time it threw the bait. So what does my dumb a$$ do? I cast it again.........Yep I hooked another one not quite as big but still probably 10 and yep it jumped and threw thew the bait. This time I get the bait back and with my hands shaking I dig out my crimps and trebles and rig the bait with a belly treble. I enede up getting a 6 and then a 4. If only I would have rigged it up before I started I would have had a monster bag. Live and learn, I will never make that mistake again.

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NicoMon Jul-11-11 06:45 PM
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#11948, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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I feel like I've been on a lifetime of dumbest trips ever, but I'll stick to this year.

This spring I decided to make the most of the day before a tournament by getting up at o-dark-thirty to go fun fishing. The fun fishing wasn't really that, so around noon I bailed and made the 2 hour drive out to Berryessa where the tournament was.

The fishing was pretty good, railed some random spinnerbait fish in the first 15 minutes, and found some huge ones cruising. I ended the day by towing some poor bastard in a broken down ski boat a few miles back to the ramp.

Back home around 10-11pm I gathered up my gear for an hour of re-rigging. Right in front of my door I dropped about 10 bundled rods to get my keys and a #4 round bend gammie sunk halfway through my right ring finger.

A half hour of half-hearted work with a pare of pliers, an hour+ in the emergency room, and (finally) another hour of rigging rods and it was about time to wake up for the tournament.

I don't remember that day much, but we did come real close to winning that tournament off the fish I found the previous afternoon. So maybe not so dumb after all :-)


(Really dumbest trip ever? Every time I go to Chabot....)

  

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swimbaitMon Jul-11-11 08:26 PM
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#11949, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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>I feel like I've been on a lifetime of dumbest trips ever,

ROFLMAO

Ok, blast from the past. Me and Jamon go to Lake Los Carneros to try and catch bass from shore. We caught precisely nothing. Since fishing was bad we decided to have a casting contest.

We both reared back and fired. My Abu Black Maxx with 10lb exploded in to the ultimate birds nest. Jamon's Calcutta did not fare any better. We had to leave and go home because neither of reels worked any more.

  

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JeremyfisherMon Jul-11-11 09:19 PM
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#11950, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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Mon Jul-11-11 09:24 PM by Jeremyfisher

  

          

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.

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swimbaitMon Jul-11-11 09:44 PM
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#11951, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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At least you got fat smarra mouth bass :)

Aright let's keep the stupidity rolling.

About 5 years ago I got pretty in to fishing team tournaments out of my 15' jon boat. For some reason it seemed smart to go to New Hogan lake in March during a major rain storm. By myself. Having never been there before.

I only got a little lost and was actually in time to check in. Only thing was that 30+ mph winds were blowing straight on to the launch ramp. So the tournament was canceled. Only team tournament I've ever been to that got outright canceled.

Not wanting to waste my day, I did what any idiot would do and went to Pardee. I think I saw Sacto John there that day. But not many other people because the weather was... Slightly bad.

Being protected from south wind, the launch ramp was do-able. I rolled out and made a few casts with a Castaic trout. 8lber drills it in the first 5 minutes. The wind is slamming the boat. Lose the fish reaching for the net. Rip the livewell hose out of my cooler in the process.

Somehow I got out around the corner and ran up the lake. Flipped some trash pockets. Hooked a bass and lost it. The wind stopped and the rain started. Crazy monsoon rain style. Caught nothing for a few hours and decided to try by the dam. My trolling motor controls went out, board got fried.

Retreated in defeat with 6 inches of standing water in the boat. Realized my cell phone was fried and wallet soaked. Spread the contents of the wallet around the inside of the truck along with the rest of my soaked gear. It looked like some kind of Hoarders episode - truck edition.

On the drive home the wind was blowing about 50 on the Altamont. The cooler lid on my livewell ripped off and blew away like a kite. Just glad the boat didn't go with it.

  

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JeremyfisherMon Jul-11-11 10:06 PM
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#11952, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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Mon Jul-11-11 10:14 PM by Jeremyfisher

  

          


How about dumbest moment?

Ryan can vouch that this actually happened....

We were flying down the lake to go to a new spot....a huge school of big looking spotted bass erupted off this point directly ahead of us.....

I ofcourse cut engine off and we came off plane...both Ryan and I jumped on deck and I fired a 6" HUDDLESTON out in the middle of the erupting bass....


I get railed instantly, the boats still going like 7 MPH towards the school, I RAIL a hookset into this fish.......

almost instantly my LINE shotgun POP SNAPS at my reel!!!! My reel then RIPS off the rod I lose my balance and throw my reel 8 feet into the air and overboard to the bottom of the lake.....my rod goes directly into the sky and I catch it and just sit there trying to process what just happened....

Im left just holding a rod and nothing else as Ryan is just crying with laughter...

DUMB.


Even dumber......

The spot we were running FROM.....I had moments earlier lost an 11 or 12 lb stud of a bass using a left handed reel that I was retarded at reeling in, and a 6" huddleston that had no treble hook....So I got crushed by this 11 lber.....couldn't reel, and all I had was the jig hook to keep her on. She thru the bait.......

Even dumberrrerr......

The spot that we were running to........I ended up snapping off another 6" huddleston trying to lift in a 4 lb spotted bass that I hooked moments after this whole fiasco...

"Wow you're really on a roll there bud" a line from meet the parents after he lights the house on fire comes to mind for me.

I was killing it that day.

DUMB.

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NicoMon Jul-11-11 10:10 PM
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#11953, "RE: Your dumbest trip ever"
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Way back in the 90s, before I had any clue about swimbait fishing, I went night fishing with a buddy at Los Banos reservoir. We arrived around 10 pm, parked illegally on top of the dam, slayed a bunch of bass burning rattle traps, then went back to my truck to find the battery had died. We ended up getting out without any trouble, but the best part of the night was catching a 4.5 lb bass at around 3am on a frozen anchovy while we waited to flag someone down.

Also... glory days of San Pablo. I had a plastic pond prowler boat back then, and not enough money for good batteries. I think I did a couple trips in a row there, one involving a 40 pound limit, paddling the boat back to the ramp with my landing net :)

That pond prowler provided all kinds of opportunities for boneheadery. Fell out of it twice, the first time standing on top of the swivel chair while fighting a 8-10 lb bed fish. Word to the wise, swivel chairs are not a reliable standing platform in an 8 foot boat...

  

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