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Big_p
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Username: Big_p
Post Number: 113
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 11:04 pm: | 
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Anyone ever get caught out on the lake in a bad storm?
One summer me, my grandpa and his fishing buddy, who was Ex- Military got caught on the the Pecan Bayou in a bad hail storm. My grandpa's boat is a 16ft. Alumna Craft with a 35hp. Mercury motor. Well we headed for the closest bank and beached the boat. Only place to hide was under some huge pecan trees that were getting beat to pieces. My grandpa and his buddy turned the boat over and we got under it until the storm passed. I was about 9 when this happened and have never chanced the weather since.
I would have to say my grandpa's fishing buddy Floyd Botts aka Yak, besides my grandpa and father, is probably one of the greatest men I have ever known. He only had half of his left arm and bicep and his chest was rittled with shrapnel wounds and still had some shrapnel left in him. He had a prostesis{sp} on his left leg frm the knee down. He never let anything get him down and was positive about everything. |
Marion
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Username: Marion
Post Number: 7
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 11:12 pm: |
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I got caught on Lake Ray Hubbard in a 16ft Sea Ray. The wind came up and I had waves coming into the boat about 2 ft higher than the sides of the boat. That was the worst scare I ever had on a lake. Had 4 adults and 3 kids under 6 in the boat. I always kept a good eye on the weather after that. |
Barnaclebill
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Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 29
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 12:41 am: |
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Been caught in a few storms, the latest was at the East Flats near Aransas Pass,, it hadn't rained in about 6 months. A coworker and myself decided to go fishing after work one morning,, working nights. We were about 5 or 6 miles from the dock when a cloud formed up on the horizon, nothing to worry about, right ?? Wrong,, it built faster than almost anything I've ever seen. it started raining so we decided to head in. then the frontal push hit us and before we knew it we were in 4 to 5 foot waves going into about a 40 or so mph wind. We couldn't see 100 feet. We were just above idle to keep the bow from becoming washed over when we came to an oil rig and were able to get around the back side of it,,, we were able to tie up and sit it out,,, got wet as hell.
But I have another on too,,, one day my son and I went up to the lake lot. We got out and walked out on the pier. I looked down at the water and noticed fish laying on the bank, flopping like they had all been thrown up on bank, they were still alive, there were hndreds of them. I told Eric to go down and start throwing as many as he could back into the water. He was at the water's edge when all of a sudden the water started getting restless and started to flow into the cove that our lot is on. Within 30 seconds to a minute the water level rose about 18 inches.
What had happened is a waterspout had formed up at the north end of the lake and sucked alot of water up to it. When the spout lifted it dropped the water out. It was the wierdest thing I've ever experienced..
Born to fish-Forced to work
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Picou
Bluegill
Username: Picou
Post Number: 238
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 9:49 am: |
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A day on Lake Fork a few years back when I was still fishing out of my 14 lowe semi-V aluminum w/ 30HP motor. I could see the storm coming and thought I could get away with just a few more casts until that first lightning strike. I was down by the dam and by the time I got it fired up a herd of bass boats rounded the corner into Big Caney. By the time I got to the ramp the wind was howling out of the North and the line at the ramp was 15 trucks long. I opted not to leave my boat on the shore to be swamped by the waves and went to tie up under the bridge more on the North side. The waves were tremendously huge and the straightline winds were taking my hat off my head. I went and pulled up on the back side of the bridge riprap and held my boat in the rain, lightning, and wind until it was over. Several people were caught out there and some of them were letting their fiberglass boats bang all over the riprap. Once the storm passed I went back fishing to dry off... News said the winds exceeded 50MPH on the lake.
Barnaclebill, that waterspout story is wild...
Storms on the water can come up fast and be deadly. I take no chances when my children are with me. But, I never assume that the weather at my house is the same as the weather at the lake. 
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Charles
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Username: Charles
Post Number: 89
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 10:25 am: |
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I was a Fork one day with a buddy fishing way back in Mustang, we decided to call it a day and head back to Lake Fork Marine where we had launched. My buddy came flying out of Mustang around that point and hit some serious rollers. He kept on it (big mistake) and beat the crap out of us. Once we got the boat on the trailer the pounding had cracked the fiberglass on his console.
Another time we came out of a protective cove to the main lake and once again had some BIG rollers. I told my buddy to go back in the cove and beach the boat.We would catch a ride to his truck and come back for the boat. Thankfully another fisherman stopped and gave a ride to his truck. We found a house in the cove that had a private boat ramp and they where nice enough to let us use it. I'd rather do this everyday instead of taking a chance!
Dang'it Rudey,Greg and mike look like ooompa loompas from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory up against Charles !!!!
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Fishinaggie88
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Username: Fishinaggie88
Post Number: 85
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 2:43 pm: |
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Fishing on the coast for specs. There was a distant line (2 miles?) of thunderhheads moving parallel to us, not moving towards us. Suddenly as we would cast and reeled our mono lines would literally "float" on top of the water and not settle like normal. If you touched the eyes on your rods you would get a static charge shock. Of course the trout turned on right about then and the storm was not getting any closer so we fished for a couple minutes and decided the heck with that and got the heck out of dodge. It was SPOOKY.
Love to fish and hunt.
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Justin
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Username: Justin
Post Number: 4
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 3:54 pm: |
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Me and a buddy were fishing for sandies and crappie below highway 69 bridge on Lake Eufala in Oklahoma. We were in a old 15 bass boat with a 40hp engine on it, when the waves started to pick up around midnight and we decided we better head back to the ramp. By the time we got everything in and got going on our way, it was terrible. We stayed close to the bank and couldn't go very fast and of course the engine dies and we are out of gas. I was trying to hook up the spare tank and we just started to get swamped, bout that time the Lake Patrol came from out of no where and shined their spotlight on us and saw we were in trouble and came and picked us up and we sat there and watched our boat sink with all our stuff in it. Pretty weird feeling driving home with a empty trailor, and explaining it to your dad... |
Javelin
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Username: Javelin
Post Number: 23
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 6:13 pm: |
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I've been in so many bad storms I can't count them all. I was in two purty good uns last thursday at fork. Had a tourny on Rayburn last year that it was sleating in the morning then the wind picked up and was gusting to 45mph. On the way back to Twin Dykes from the 147 bridge (yea we ran that far in sub freezing, sleating rain) I was giving the boat gas to get over the waves then letting off and coasting down, just to gas it again for the next, well I gassed a little to much and ran right through a wave and broke my trolling motor smooth off the front of the boat. There were two 20ft rangers late for weigh in because they could not cross the big water because of the waves, but ole red came through even if she was hoppling on two legs when we got there. Had two fish that weighed 11lbs and came in 26 out of 200. |
Bigun
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Username: Bigun
Post Number: 20
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 8:43 pm: |
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Fork is absolutely the roughest Lake I've ever fished on and it is just amazing how fast a storm builds there. I've twice left a ranger tied up at someone's camp and caught a ride back to where we were staying. And I only fish there one week out of the year.
Worst storm in the gulf. We were fishing over an open water oyster reef in the slickest water imaginable. We both looked back to the worst weather we have ever seen. Before we could get the anchor pulled 4-5 ft seas. On the ride in the waves were breaking over the boat (21 avenger bay boat) about where the console is and the water was going straight over the inside part of the hull in the boat and hitting the back deck and going out of the back of the boat amazingly. If this water would have been coming in the boat with us I imagine we would have been swimming. We could see orange sparks from the lightning hitting around us. It was just an amazing experience since I lived through it. |
Keith
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Username: Keith
Post Number: 12
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 5, 2004 - 5:02 pm: |
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I've had the same experience as Fishinaggie88 mentioned above twice now.
The first time was about 10 years ago on Lake Buchanan in the hill country near Llano, TX. It was a pretty nice day, with rain in the forecast but it hadn’t rained, or even thundered, yet. We were fishing in the middle of the lake for sand bass. I was throwing a 1 oz slab and began to notice that my line was staying parallel to the water. I don’t think the slab was sinking more than a couple of feet, even though we were in 25-30’ of water. I could hear a sizzling sound coming from my line, like electricity running through a power line. Then, when I would swap hands with my rod after each cast, I noticed a spark would jump between my finger and the fishing rod about ½” long. Within about 5 or 10 minutes, my dad and a friend started having the same thing happen when they would cast. We decided it was best to get off the water. When we got back to the fishing camp, my grandfather told us we were lucky we hadn’t gotten struck by lightening. Within another 10 minutes, the rain and lightening hit.
The next time was about 4 years ago on Lake Tawakoni in NE TX. It was pretty much the same thing, but there was a front building to our west. We started getting shocked when we touched our fishing rods, and the lures would not sink, again. We headed to the boat ramp at full speed (along with another boat). By the time we got to shore the rain had hit. The guys in the other boat were talking about the same thing happening to them. One of the guys was really freaking out.
I guess I’ve been lucky twice now. (Since I didn’t get struck by lightening) It’s weird that I was the first one in the boat to have the static electricity effect me first. |
Picou
Bluegill
Username: Picou
Post Number: 290
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 6, 2004 - 11:17 am: |
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Man, I hope I never experience the hovering line experience... That is closer than I want to be to having lightning strike me...
Thanks for sharing everyone...
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Barnaclebill
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Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 87
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 6, 2004 - 11:09 pm: |
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I experienced the singing line oonce,,, I was wading at the Oso, in 'Corpus christi Bay,, A thunderstorm moved in. I had 3 lines out fishing for trout with live perch, I picked up one of the lines to check the bait and when I lifted the rod to A vertical position I heard a buzzing noise. I experimented little and found out that it was my line that was vibrating, causing the singing sound,, long story short,,, I got the hell outta there, since I was about 200 yards from the bank,,,,,,,,,
Born to fish-Forced to work
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