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Fishing Trips Gone Bad. Story By Ari My Fishing Friend.

The story goes like this. I would just like to give you an update of latest fishing nightmare on Dec 24th, 2007 as you might appreciate this one. I drove to my local lake through a huge and unforeseen blizzard, we arrived at the lake three hours later only to find most of it was under ice, especially the areas where we normally put in our boat. We then went off driving up the mountain in search of open water and a better place to launch our boat.

Well here is where things go from bad to worse, we slid off the road in the middle of nowhere and had to walk three miles to borrow some shovels to dig out our vehicle. After tracking down the shovels, we spent the following three hours digging our car out. I did not go through this not to fish, even if just for a few hours, so we found an area where we walked all gear ( 2 batteries, zodiac, electric motor, food, tackle etc..) 150 yards down a steep slope in deep snow to open water.

It was then I suddenly realized that there was leak in one of the chambers of our inflatable and needed to be repaired fast. I was lucky enough to have repair kit but this took another 30 minutes before we could put the boat into the water. Once in the water the winds suddenly picked up to gale force and before we could get all the gear in the boat there was a good 10 inches of water (from the breaking waves) in the boat. We were sinking on shoreline! A massive wave then hit the boat throwing my buddy over the side into the water, not deep, but very cold! It was only then that logic prevailed and I looked at my buddy soaking wet in the water and said “Today is not a good day to die! Let’s go home and cut our losses!”

With that we packed up all the gear, walked all the way back up the Sisyphean hill with all the gear, and drove the long cold ride home. It was the toughest day of fishing without even wetting a line…….The crap we do for our browns! I am going to re-attempt to fish again tomorrow because it was just NOT meant to be today.

If you have a fishing story gone BAD then send it here to me and I will publish your story here at the Bow River Blog. I will share one of my fishing trips gone bad with all of you in my next post. Stay tuned for my horror story.