01-03-2015, 10:32 PM
I forgot to mention the two Ooooops moments of the day. One a potentially deadly lesson learned.
The first... I've made it to the mid 40s as an avid outdoorsman and it finally happend to me... I was behind the boat hooking up one of the tie down straps and just getting ready to lower the motor to let the water out of it when I get hit in the shoulder. A mushy hit. I swing around with the words at my
what did you just toss at me to Madi who was in the boat finishing up putting everything away (the words never actually left my mouth). I see her being busy and it hit me like a brick. The 
on my face goes flat and I am thinking uggggg. I reach over to my right shoulder and give it a little tug to see the offended area... Yup... Dive bombed. Darn seagal got me. lol
The lesson learned. I parked right next to the fish cleaning station at Hemenway Harbor and as usual I just peeled the sheaths off the 2 fillet knives I am going to use and leave them sitting in the boat. I grab the fish and take the 30 foot walk to the cleaning station. As I am stepping up the curb right there at the cleaning tables I look up to check the tables to see if they are cleaned up from the previous user. Bad timing. I didn't lift my foot high enough and my toe caught the curb. Down I went with 2 9" fillet knives in one hand and a bag of Stripers in the other. Dam near a face plant. I wanted nothing to do with those knives. That hand shot forward and the knives made it part way under the fish cleaning station the other hand went rearward since I didn't want to land on a pile of fish with splines on their backs. Skinned up a knee and part of one wrist but otherwise unscathed.
Could of been a waaaay bad dealio. I think I am going to carry the fillet knives sheathed over to the cleaning station with me for now on.
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The first... I've made it to the mid 40s as an avid outdoorsman and it finally happend to me... I was behind the boat hooking up one of the tie down straps and just getting ready to lower the motor to let the water out of it when I get hit in the shoulder. A mushy hit. I swing around with the words at my
what did you just toss at me to Madi who was in the boat finishing up putting everything away (the words never actually left my mouth). I see her being busy and it hit me like a brick. The on my face goes flat and I am thinking uggggg. I reach over to my right shoulder and give it a little tug to see the offended area... Yup... Dive bombed. Darn seagal got me. lolThe lesson learned. I parked right next to the fish cleaning station at Hemenway Harbor and as usual I just peeled the sheaths off the 2 fillet knives I am going to use and leave them sitting in the boat. I grab the fish and take the 30 foot walk to the cleaning station. As I am stepping up the curb right there at the cleaning tables I look up to check the tables to see if they are cleaned up from the previous user. Bad timing. I didn't lift my foot high enough and my toe caught the curb. Down I went with 2 9" fillet knives in one hand and a bag of Stripers in the other. Dam near a face plant. I wanted nothing to do with those knives. That hand shot forward and the knives made it part way under the fish cleaning station the other hand went rearward since I didn't want to land on a pile of fish with splines on their backs. Skinned up a knee and part of one wrist but otherwise unscathed.
Could of been a waaaay bad dealio. I think I am going to carry the fillet knives sheathed over to the cleaning station with me for now on.
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