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·The best thing I can say about this tournament is that I lived through it. Those of you who were there know what I mean.
Six foot swells moving across the main lake made for a pretty scary situation. Luckily the guy I drew had a 21 foot fish-n-ski that was able to handle the waves better than a bass boat. As we were being lifted and dropped with huge waves breaking over the boat, my partner turned to me and said "you think we'll make it?". I just smiled because I thought he was kidding -I figured he had done this before and I had all the confidence in the world in his ability to keep us from rolling over. A few minutes later he asked again and I started to realize how serious this situation was. I had my eyes shut most of the time because there was so much water hitting me in the face (and I really didn't care to see what I was seeing. Luckily we were able to duck off the main lake into a small cove that had a private ramp at which time my partner said "this is as far as we're going -I'm not going back out there". As we sat in the cove trying to figure out how we were going to get back to the main ramp to pick up his truck and trailer, he explained that this was the worst water he'd ever been in or seen and that he was pretty scared. Later, talking to the other fisherman I heard many say that this was the first time they had ever been truly scared while out on the water. In the end, nobody died but one team lost their boat when the excess water in their boat caused the battery or something to quit and the motor to quit resulting in them being slammed into some shallow rocks where their boat ended up filled with water and stuck. Another bass boat that ended up in the cove with us had their trolling motor wrecked and the driver side window completed ripped off.
It was scary and exciting and I hope I never have to go through it again. I love to fish but it's not worth dying for....besides death tends to really cut into a mans fishing time.
Six foot swells moving across the main lake made for a pretty scary situation. Luckily the guy I drew had a 21 foot fish-n-ski that was able to handle the waves better than a bass boat. As we were being lifted and dropped with huge waves breaking over the boat, my partner turned to me and said "you think we'll make it?". I just smiled because I thought he was kidding -I figured he had done this before and I had all the confidence in the world in his ability to keep us from rolling over. A few minutes later he asked again and I started to realize how serious this situation was. I had my eyes shut most of the time because there was so much water hitting me in the face (and I really didn't care to see what I was seeing. Luckily we were able to duck off the main lake into a small cove that had a private ramp at which time my partner said "this is as far as we're going -I'm not going back out there". As we sat in the cove trying to figure out how we were going to get back to the main ramp to pick up his truck and trailer, he explained that this was the worst water he'd ever been in or seen and that he was pretty scared. Later, talking to the other fisherman I heard many say that this was the first time they had ever been truly scared while out on the water. In the end, nobody died but one team lost their boat when the excess water in their boat caused the battery or something to quit and the motor to quit resulting in them being slammed into some shallow rocks where their boat ended up filled with water and stuck. Another bass boat that ended up in the cove with us had their trolling motor wrecked and the driver side window completed ripped off.
It was scary and exciting and I hope I never have to go through it again. I love to fish but it's not worth dying for....besides death tends to really cut into a mans fishing time.
