flightliner
Well-known member
Swim enough to save yourself if you fall into a lake or river ??.
Swim enough to save yourself if you fall into a lake or river ??.
my only option is to fish upstream from Binka and hope he can snag me as I pass by although if it was at the expense of damaging his new rod I would not be to sure about my survival.
Well i float like a lead brick .
I dont care what anyone says about natural human boyancy , i aint got none.
One of the reasons i fish shallow waters :wh . althou you can drown in an inch of water so swimmer on not you can drown ..
PG ....
Sod that ! I don't do boats and that's why......plus the fact that my boat partner would almost certainly be the Big Feller and that's as close to a nailed on scuttling as you can get.I try not to put myself in such a position that if I went in it could be life threatening these days. I know I have in the past and got away with it. One scary incident that send shudders down me when I think about it was on one of the very large meres where we used boats with outboards to get around.
I arrived and all the boats I'd used in the past and knew their limits were being used and the only one left was an ally rowing boat type I'd never used. Loaded it up put the outboard on, a Johnson 4 Horse and set off up the mere. Rounded the corner from the landing stage and whacked the power on as I'd done many times before with the other boats. The thing lift right up despite the weight of all the weekend gear being in the front. It was on the point of back flipping as I cut the power. To say I sh!t myself is an understatement!
We sank that bast*rd in the deepest (50 ft) point of the mere a week later because of it's dangerous characteristics. Over the next winter we built 4 flat bottomed punts 20ft long by 8ft wide to replace all the small boats we'd been using. And they need every bit of the Johnson power to push them up the mere, but boy were they stable.