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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.

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.....

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Posted by AwgustaDawg

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:26 pm to AwgustaDawg

I was bank fishing at Mayo Lock and Dam on the Coosa River in Rome, Georgia one Sunday afternoon and a commercial trot line guy backed his old jon boat and ford F150 right off the end of that snotty slick ramp. There was about a 8 foot drop off at the end of a very short ramp...great place to catch fish by the way, that ramp causes a good eddy...and as the boat went over that ledge it drug the truck down and he jumped out just in time. The boat got hung under the winch post and floated the whole truck and trailer a few hundred yards into about 15 feet of water and then the boat floated free and headed to Lake Weiss. When the divers showed up they searched the area where the boat broke free....truck and trailer were gone. They were found about a mile and half down stream....moving water is an amazing force, id almost bet that truck wouldn't have pulled that trailer a mile and a half on a good stretche of paved road....

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