I forgot about this one...

I was up on the Alagnak River in AK, fishing the end of the season going to a section of river I'd been to many times before. Ever time I came up to this one section it was kind of a ritual to go up through this chute turn a sharp right at full power let the jet catch and just as it caught shut the motor off and I'd drift right up to the bank. Like I said I'd done this plenty of times like 40 or 50 this season so It was second nature to me.

I was fishing a new couple of clients and they had been up with me the day before so they were familiar with the drill when I came to this area. They grabbed their rods in anticipation as I came up through the chute at about 35mph, turned a sharp right, the jet caught and I shut the motor off. BAM the boat stopped instantly about fifteen feet from shore. I got thrown into the console, my guys both went ass over tea-kettle right out of the boat and never hit the water landing on the beach. The gas tank broke loose from under the seat and slid to the bow and the console broke the back supports and bent forward.

I picked myself up, jumped out of the boat to find that both my guys were OK but a little sore, no broken rods, and to my surprise they weren't really pissed at me either. Cool! I spent the rest of the time putting the boat back together. Seems the water had fallen about six inches from the day before because it froze upstream and I landed the boat on a sand bar I'd never seen before. DUH!