re: Are boat launches some of the most comical places on earth?

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Yep, duck season launches can be way worse because when you are launching on a public ramp you are typically doing it to beat someone to a spot and that means tempers can escalate quickly if you frick it up and stall the process. Plus, it is usually cold and sometimes rainy which means that hot cab will feel so good. I have seen at least a handful of launches where a boat was sent out into a river with nobody in it.

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We were waiting to launch at Swan Creek WMA in Alabama one morning with air temps hovering around zero. Old boy sitting in the back of a 1420 jon boat with a 6 horse on it. It won't kick over. He stands up on the back bench, waders on, and gives the rope a helluva a pull....and goes head first off the back of the boat. There was skim ice that had been broken...he was a young healthy man....could not stand up in 3 feet of water and walk up the ramp...muscles simply would not work. He was solid white as soon as any of him emerged from the water...it was that cold. We finally drug him up the ramp with a rope and our truck....he was nearly done and had only been in the water a few minutes and was thrashing about working hard. Y'all be careful...had we not been there I doubt he makes it...as it was he was pretty banged up what with us dragging his frozen arse out of the lake LOL.....