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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 2592207" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>There can be. Had one. Fishing the World Championships for Bowfishing. Wife was 8mos pregnant with #2 at the time and stayed at the hotel. We had a winning strategy requiring quite a run up the Mississippi. Were supposed to meet a dock owner @4am for 100gals of gas to finish and for the run back. Never made it. We had a Shoal Runner Jet with a hopped up small block and a 24V trolling motor. We threw the driveshaft on the way up. No problem, The river was way above flood stage so we just took off cross country. found fish a couple miles from the river and wore them out. Took us forever to find the river again with just a trolling motor, but we did and were in good spirits thinking we had enough fish to win. Then came the barges 6 wide with a 10' wake, in the dark. Then the generator ran out of gas. Remember we missed out gas fill up? Trolling motor died and we were Huck Finning it on the Mississippi with only a paddle. We dumped all the fish @7am (weigh-in time). that lightened the load a ton and we were still 20 miles upstream. Soon my pregnant wife had the coast guard looking for us with search planes. We made it to a Coast Guard boat that was tied up to the bank around noon. Went on the boat asking for help and they all drew on us and said we were trespassing on Federal Property. It goes on but you get the point. You CAN have a bad day fishing. You have to work at it and throw in some bad luck, but it can happen. It really got bad when I finally got back and was not bleeding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 2592207, member: 92702"] There can be. Had one. Fishing the World Championships for Bowfishing. Wife was 8mos pregnant with #2 at the time and stayed at the hotel. We had a winning strategy requiring quite a run up the Mississippi. Were supposed to meet a dock owner @4am for 100gals of gas to finish and for the run back. Never made it. We had a Shoal Runner Jet with a hopped up small block and a 24V trolling motor. We threw the driveshaft on the way up. No problem, The river was way above flood stage so we just took off cross country. found fish a couple miles from the river and wore them out. Took us forever to find the river again with just a trolling motor, but we did and were in good spirits thinking we had enough fish to win. Then came the barges 6 wide with a 10' wake, in the dark. Then the generator ran out of gas. Remember we missed out gas fill up? Trolling motor died and we were Huck Finning it on the Mississippi with only a paddle. We dumped all the fish @7am (weigh-in time). that lightened the load a ton and we were still 20 miles upstream. Soon my pregnant wife had the coast guard looking for us with search planes. We made it to a Coast Guard boat that was tied up to the bank around noon. Went on the boat asking for help and they all drew on us and said we were trespassing on Federal Property. It goes on but you get the point. You CAN have a bad day fishing. You have to work at it and throw in some bad luck, but it can happen. It really got bad when I finally got back and was not bleeding. [/QUOTE]
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