what is the daftest thing you have done or seen done fishing

[billy bennett]

last year was fishing aroung anglsey,had a bucket of bait and bought loads of plugs, as i was using the plugs and changing them i put the wet ones in the bait bucket to dry, at the end of the session dumped the old bait wrapping paper in a bin and set off home to discover all the plugs were wrapped in the paper.
someone had a good find, about £40 worth.
another time while boat fishing the mersey on a big tide at anchor,a boat full of idiots pulled up next to me and put the anchor in and tied it half way down the boat,as soon as the anchor got a grip it nearly capsized the boat. we had to up anchor and drive over and cut the rope, not one of them had a life jacket on .

[sweeper driver]

Whilst learning the back cast, I made a momentous cock up in my timing, lost sight of the lead, and then felt an almighty pain in my right shoulder....five ounces of lead hurts.

[milkman]

I was out fishing on a mate's boat one day when the engine spluttered and died, as we were drifting toward's the rock's he shouted across to another mate that was standing next to the anchor, to throw it over the side. Which he did.
He had two anchor's onboard so decided as an extra safety measure to give it the deep six aswell, so the order was given.
Just aswell I noticed the anchor rope and grabbed it before it went over the side,.......the two anchor's were tied to the same rope,......one at each end!.

[chris grace]

the daftest thing I've heard was my brother in law telling me that my gas lamp was dangerous to use when fishing.
I asked him why and he said that because I smoke I shouldn't use a gas lamp as if it went out and I lit up I could blow myself up.
I told him I would know if it had gone out .
he said that I might not notice and could get badly burnt.
I told him again that i would know if it went out .
He asked me how I would know?
I told him it would go dark,he didn't say much for the rest of the session!!!

[tagman]

Easy one for me.

After blanking, on a cold winters night in North Norfolk, i packed up and was driving off, only to realise i had left my lamp in the car park so i reversed onto what i thought was grass, instead it turned out to be a weed covered dyke. Splash - car completely stuck half filled with water. No one else around, intsead of ringing the AA like most normal people i thought i could get pulled out.
After scaring a few old ladies at 1.00am i eventually found a farmer with a 4x4 who could pull me out.
After searching the cow shed we found his tow chain, we went to the car park where i attatched my car via a nice solid bit underneath.
This "solid bit" turned out to be my drive shaft which snapped like a twig.
Realising my front tow loop is hidden under the plastic grill, we got the car out.

Remarkably not a scratch, but no drive shaft, no power to the wheels.
So eventually the very nice man from the AA came and my car was towed to the garage. (by now 5.00am and frostbitten)

Cost me £700 quid or so

[trev]

think mine would have to be when i was fishing on a pier in winter.good slack line bite,struck into what seemed a nice cod. half way in i spit out a ciggie what i had in my mouth,which hit my line and ..... well you can guess the rest. learnt my lesson though.

[Puggy]

Tagman, class, i love it, sounds like the sort of thing i wud do.

1. Fishing underneath a pier, casting out sidewards, not getting much distance, so decided to to some overhead thumps, 1st try, let go to soon, weight hit the underside of pier, came down and hit me on the head which resulted in a trip to hospital for a fractured skull. The funny thing was, when the weight hit the pier, i chucked my rod down, ran forward about 5 steps, put both hands over my head, but the weight still just managed to find a gap between my fingers. If i had just stayed put nothing would of happened.


2. Packing up after a days fishing, picking up my rod and walking the 3 miles home. Went to go fishing the next day, realized that the day before when i left fishing that i didnt pick my rucksack up, so out of all my gear all i had was a rod, lost all my tackle. I was a stupid child, was about 12 i think at the time, and i didnt start smoking the weed till i was 14 so no excuses there.

3. Oh and i see someone put his rod together, didnt attach the reel or anything and was flicking it about, pretending to cast while saying "powercast" "i am the master caster" then the tip section flies of and covers about 100 yards in the general direction of the sea never to be seen again. The look on his face was priceless, f**king hilarious

[kellogs]

Whilst out on a charter fishing trip the skipper was trying in vain to moor us up to start fishing after a couple of goes he managed to get the only anchor he had stuck in wreck so all we could do was go round in circles.

Whilst fishing a local club match on Neyland marina I got my trace stuck in the wall. I thought I could reach down and pull it out and ended up slipping down the wall into the sea. Luckily the water only came up to my waste but the embarrassment and nearly 100 other anglers taking the **** out of me all day. I had to wade round to the slip way in full view of everyone.

[TimmyButler]

Arived for a 4hour night sesh, in February. Had been given a gas powered lamp from my dad. I was Just about losing light when i had set up, so i flicked on my gas powered lamp. didn't turn on, so i did it a couple more times and bang, the whole thing lit up, flame coming out of the side of it it and everything. Stood there with this gas canister pretty much on fire in my hand, so what to do? stand there like a lemon for about 1-2 seconds trying to blow the fking thing out, which didn't work. realised what the hell am i doing, it's going to blow up in my face, so chucked it about 10metres in front of me and ran in the other direction. hit the beach floor and bang. all the lantern split into a shed load of pieces. not quite sure what happened there, dont think the cannister even blew, but **** me right up for a few minutes none the less.

not going to invest in anoter lamp like that!

[anotherbarrelMrHooper]

I shant name and shame, I was invited boat fishing in cornwall out of the fowey ( I think it was the fowey).
After nearly having a head on collision with another boat,the captain moored us up to a bouy to start fishing.
The bouy was in fact a marker for the yacht race which was fully underway.
You can imagine the abuse.