Anyone that has been on the water and around boat ramps for any amount of time have seen some crazy things. Usually you’ll say to yourself, “What were they thinking?” I was sitting on the deck one day and started thinking about things I had seen on the water while fishing and at boat ramps. I also thought of a couple I had not seen but would not be surprised to see. You can probably think of a few crazy things you have seen that I missed. So, here are a few of the crazy things I came up with:
- Building a boat ramp on a rocky bank with no dock.
- Back down a ramp and then do everything that should have been done in the parking lot.
- Use 4lb. test line on a a new $50, ten inch swimbait.
- Keep the headlights on bright while on a boat ramp at night so others can test their backing skills while blind.
- No Wake buoys only apply to other boats.
- Stopping ten feet in front of another boat fishing is adequate consideration.
- Think they can run a 70 mph in five foot waves will get the boat “on top”.
- You can power all the cool stuff on a loaded bass boat with one deep cycle battery.
- Playing country music on the boat’s 15” speakers thinking that will draw fish to the boat.
- Wait until the busy weekend to learn how to back a boat down a ramp.
- Wiping the boat clean while parked on the ramp on a busy weekend.
- Staying close to a pro angler in a high dollar tournament so they can give him fishing advice.
- Thinking the marine police won’t mind a boat cutting across their bow five feet away.
- Other boaters are stupid for going around a point with the tops of stumps showing.
- A 21 foot boat will do just fine on a single axle trailer.
- The ramp is a parking place.
- Think a “Dangerous Waters” sign means there are some REALLY big fish in there.
- Confident there is no way a snake can get into a boat.
- The bow going up a down while underway is built that way to make boating more fun.
- A jet ski is supposed to run close to fishing boats to wake-up the fish.
- Boat trailers are supposed to be completely submerged to load a boat…followed shortly by the tow vehicle.
- A boat can run anywhere there is water.
Well, that’s about all the damage I can do. How about you?
(Ed. Note: DISCLAIMER – Any similarity to a living or dead person is strictly accidental and unfortunate at the same time.)
