re: Hunting/Fishing Close Calls

Kind of a long story but once trashed my 115hp outboard on my boat a week before a big bowfishing tournament, so I threw an old 40hp johnson on the back of an 1860 so we could still fish.

Well, I didn't take the weight displacement into consideration from having a 115 on the back to a 40.
Had 2 guys on the front platform shooting as I was running to one of our spots (about 7-9mph) we had been seeing a lot of big fish the past few nights. I let off the throttle pretty fast bc one of my teammates shot a fish and the bow of the boat nosedives into the water. Next thing I know there is water up to my knees and I throw the boat in reverse in a panic and the front of the boat comes back out of the water.

We spend the next 30-45 minutes running the bilge, pumping water out, all while thanking God that we weren't swimming in the middle of the river at 3 a.m. a couple miles from the truck.

Then the battery dies from pumping so much water. I grab my tool box and go to swap out the battery to my trolling battery.

While taking the nut off of the positive post, my buddy gets the wrench stuck on the fuel pump and the positive post which starts arcing and turning bright red so I swatted at the wrench to keep the gas tank from blowing and accidentally knock it into the water. Luckily I had an adjustable in my box and we finally hooked the battery up and went straight to the truck.

TLDR- Almost sunk my boat only to save it and then almost explode