A Bad Day (gonna tell on myself)

[gasman]

Let's begin this story on Saturday night. I overindulged on the brown water while watching the UT game on TV. I did however hook my boat up to the truck before things got too bad.

Woke up Sunday morning with a pounding head but decided to go to the river anyway. Got to Pickwick dam and getting everything ready to back down the ramp when Sandy ask me "where are the boat keys?"

A few choice words later we decide to go back home and get the crappie poles and go to the local TWRA lake. Fished about 3 hrs and caught 6 keepers. I wasn't in the mood to get my filet knife, and everything out so got a spoon and knife and went to scaling fish. Man I can't believe I been fileting fish for so long. This was down right delishus. I will definitely do this more (minus the leaving boat keys at the house).

 

[CBU93]

Is that your boat keys in the picture?

 

[gasman]

Is that your boat keys in the picture?

Nah. That would be my truck keys

 

[TRIGGER]

I'm glad my boat uses a key pad. Getting to the water and not having keys would SUCK. At least you made a day of it.

 

[RUGER]

I will say this, a crappie fillet to me, is tasteless.
I did a whole crappie and bream a few weeks ago and the crappie was awesome.
The whole bream, I didn't care for.

Oh and before I forget, you are an idiot.

 

[Hduke86]

You're getting forgetful in your old age. I can promise you that after so long of having a boat that doesn't have an ignition key but just a push start button……. I would be forever forgetting my keys if I got a new boat.

 

[WTM]

sooo you dont keep them in the ignition?

 

[RUGER]

sooo you dont keep them in the ignition?

I don't just because I am a worry wart and I can see the little flotation thing catching air and leaving.
I do keep mine in the boat though.

 

[BigCityBubba]

If you had been drinking tequila, that wouldn't have happened. You would have been too sick to go.

 

[chimneyman]

I've owned boats for over 50 years I have never taken the key out of the ignition

 

[gasman]

With all the redneck crackheads around here, I don't leave the keys in the boat. If they steal my boat, they gonna have to hot wire it before they use it. @chimneyman @WTM

 

[CBU93]

With all the redneck crackheads around here, I don't leave the keys in the boat. If they steal my boat, they gonna have to hot wire it before they use it. @chimneyman @WTM

You could always store it Memphis! Different kind of crackhead!

 

[7mm08]

Next time drink a glass of water and take a multivitamin before you go to bed IF you haven't drank too too much.

Thank me later that you have no headache. The other crap I can't fix. I do have two extra Yamaha keys with me. One in the boat bag, one on my keychain with the truck key.

 

[huvrman]

Had to make a short notice trip to MS last week to attend a funeral. Figured I'd stay in my hunting cabin on my property there overnight, do the funeral the next day, then head home. It's a 6.5 hour drive. Started out and as my house disappeared in the rear view mirror, realized I'd packed everything except the gate and cabin keys. Phew! So glad I remembered then rather than 6 hours later...

 

[rsimms]

In South Dakota I drove 30 minutes to my duck hunting spot, only to discover I left my waders hanging in my friend's garage. So, I make the one hour round trip to get my waders and didn't get set up until 45 minutes after legal time. But, still killed my limit.

 

[AlexDad]

My boat is garage kept so I never take my keys out, however I got up o'dark thirty one morning when the wife and kids were out of town and planned on an ALL day fishing day. It wasn't happening where I was so I decided to go home about 10ish, eat lunch and go somewhere else that evening. I never wash my boat but it has a white fiberglass bottom and when I got home it had some kind of greasy nastiness on it. Figured I'd better get it off.

I get out the power washer and remove everything from the inside of the boat that doesn't go in storage, including the keys. I was also going to leave it in the driveway to get lunch. Took longer than expected for lunch, in a rush and hooked up the boat and took off.

Drive an hour to another lake, launch and put TM down to ease out past the no wake buoys and then I get behind the wheel no keys. After driving an hour I figured I'd just troll close to the ramp. I'd basically removed all my tackle and what I had tied on to the rods in the locker was all I had. I also didn't have pliers, etc in case I needed them.

When it got dark there was a lamp pole shining on the water and it started boiling. So I fished until about 10:30PM. When it was time to leave it was a steep ramp and it took me forever to get out, put the TM on full blast and pull up at the last second to get as far up the trailer as possible.

My Dad always said you can't teach everybody but you sure can learn'em.

 

[UCStandSitter]

Let's begin this story on Saturday night. I overindulged on the brown water while watching the UT game on TV. I did however hook my boat up to the truck before things got too bad.

Woke up Sunday morning with a pounding head but decided to go to the river anyway. Got to Pickwick dam and getting everything ready to back down the ramp when Sandy ask me "where are the boat keys?"

A few choice words later we decide to go back home and get the crappie poles and go to the local TWRA lake. Fished about 3 hrs and caught 6 keepers. I wasn't in the mood to get my filet knife, and everything out so got a spoon and knife and went to scaling fish. Man I can't believe I been fileting fish for so long. This was down right delishus. I will definitely do this more (minus the leaving boat keys at the house).

Been there. Got to the point where I just always left the boat keys in the boat after a couple trips leaving em behind.

 

[rsimms]

I can top that... back in 2006 I headed out on my VERY FIRST GUIDE TRIP OF MY LIFE!

I picked my client up (which I don't do often anymore), and we drove an hour to the Hiwassee River to crappie fish. I backed the boat down and immediately realized - NO BOAT KEYS!

It is a Sunday morning and I pray my wife hasn't left for church yet. Thankfully for me (not God), she hadn't. She begrudgingly agreed to start driving my way while I drove hers, to meet in the middle.

I honestly can't remember if we caught fish or not. I only remember my level of embarrassment when I had to tell him I had no boat keys!

I won't detail how publicly, but to this VERY day I have taken precautions so that could NEVER happen again!

 

[RUGER]

I can top that... back in 2006 I headed out on my VERY FIRST GUIDE TRIP OF MY LIFE!

I picked my client up (which I don't do often anymore), and we drove an hour to the Hiwassee River to crappie fish. I backed the boat down and immediately realized - NO BOAT KEYS!

It is a Sunday morning and I pray my wife hasn't left for church yet. Thankfully for me (not God), she hadn't. She begrudgingly agreed to start driving my way while I drove hers, to meet in the middle.

I honestly can't remember if we caught fish or not. I only remember my level of embarrassment when I had to tell him I had no boat keys!

I won't detail how publicly, but to this VERY day I have taken precautions so that could NEVER happen again!

I would say you overcame just fine.