re: boat dock bloopers

Then there was this time.... not really at the boat dock but still pretty bad.

Was searching for decoys that someone had left out overnight in the broken marsh before daylight in the fog. It was about 70 degrees till the sun came up.

Navigated right into a shallow mud flat at a low speed and couldn't see what I was doing (my navigator on the bow was from Alabama and wasn't familiar with LA marsh.) Needless to say we were fairly stuck.... he jumped out to try to push and sunk up to his shoulderblades in slop (not further b/c he held on to the side.) The motor just dug a hole behind us.

Next thing you know, a storm blows in, tide drops out and we look like this boat has wheels. We started in lightweight clothes and dry, and the temp dropped to about 40-45 degrees and started raining. Talk about miserable. We had several people hunting around us try to pull us out, but couldn't get close enough to even throw us a line. They did throw us a jug of bloody marys though.

We got out by means of an airboat, and it took some work to do it with the vacuum on the bottom of the boat and all. That's me in the back looking miserable and my buddy from AL in the front, laughing at me along with the guy who took the picture. The blind is up only to block the wind. No way were we getting anything we shot...