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Memoirs: Fishing trips

November 11th, 2009 | Author: admin

How many people have been on fishing trip and had tipped over the boat and had someone jump off the boat, all in the same day? Well if not, you will get a kick out of this story. Read it and shake your head and wonder if it could happen to you.

The Fishing Trip

Well, it was a wonderful day in southeast Oklahoma. Blue skies and a perfect day in June to go fishing. So my friend and I decided to try the river. We heard that the fish had really been biting there. We were staying with my Uncle Billy. He lived about three miles from where the east and west Canadian rivers meet to become the Canadian River. Well any how, we loaded up the 12 foot Jon boat and headed off. This should have been a sign for things to come. My friend (we will just call him Dopey) forgot to make sure the boat was tied down. We did not even get a mile down the dirt road before the boat just slid of the back of truck. Nothing was broken, but Dopey got an ear full. Well we finally got the boat loaded back onto the truck and made it to the boat ramp. The ramp was nothing but a smooth side on the bank of the river, where we eased the boat into the water. We had a little 4hp Johnson on the back of it. I got it cranked, finally, that took forever and day.

Then we started down river to where the two rivers meet. On the way down, we saw a nice little cove to try our luck at. We eased in there real quite not to scare the fish, you know, and started fishing. I caught three limbs and lost two lures. The FISH GODS had not awakened yet, I guess So we decided to try our luck down river. So we started up the engine and headed out. We saw some snakes on the side of the bank. Oh Dopey Hates Snakes, really hates them, remember this, i was slowing down to look at them and Dopey said with some emotion, "keep going". So i spead back up. We saw another nice area and pulled over there. This time we turned off the engine and paddled, you know not to spook the fish. We got our poles out and started fishing. I started using a jig, since I had lost my only two spinner baits earlier on the limbs (yes, the limbs were still attached to trees). Good casting uh, but any how, I hooked a pretty good one, got him in and was bragging how I was a better fisherman than Dopey. A few minutes later, I got another fish. This one was bigger than the first. Well, that was about it for Dopey, he was switching lures. He asked me what I was using, so I told him. He did not have any jigs, so he asked to borrow one. I said