A couple years ago I was anchor fishing springers on the Columbia in my sled. Hook up a freshly baited quicky, throw it overboard and watch the plug float away. The cheers of all my buddy's (anchored with probably 40 guys that I know) when we floated out of the hog line quickly turned to laughs when they realized what I had done!

Last winter I was on the Clearwater over in Idaho and was with a kid that I had never fished with. Really nice guy, just had never fished out of a sled before. On the second day I finally hooked up on a fish as the fishing was really, really slow. I get the fish next to the boat and was trying to explain to him the proper way to net a fish. I told him to grab the bag of the net and pull it tight against the handle, once the net is under the fish, drop the bag and scoop. Well.....all is going well until the fish is on top of the net. He then lifts up without dropping the bag. Have you ever seen a steelhead on a trampoline??? I have and it wasn't a good sight. When I tell him to drop the bag, he gets confused and lowers the whole net (still over the water) and the fish falls off the trampoline. The problem being the second hook of my double hook rig is now hooked in the net. The fish obviously ended up winning but I still laugh about it everytime that I think about it.

I have some more but am tired of typing

Tim