Worst dunking would be when I missed a stroke in the puma during spring steelhead season. Hit a big Rock and over I went losing one of my rods, breaking two of my co-pilots favorite rods and my prescription sunglasses. I was pinned under the boat on the high side of the rock. I was able to put enough pressure on the raft to push it off me. I made it to the beach to throw up water three times. Of course I had my float coat with me but it was spring and the sun was hot so I had taken it off. Probably wouldn't have helped in this case.

Next worse was salmon fishing in PA when we were headed in. We were on the inside of the hook in flat water by the hangar when my brother lost control of the tiller handle. I was sitting in the bow of the boat and it sent me flying out of the boat with out touching anything. I was staring up at the sun from 5 feet below the water in hip boots in the seated position before I knew what hit me. When I came up I flogged in the water until the boat (now half full of water came to retrieve me). The water was actually quite warm that day. Just lucky I didn't get hit by the motor on its way by.

The coldest would be one of the several times I took a dunking at normans on the lyre in mid december with frozen banks.
I was at the fence hole trying to step up from the beach wearing black lacrosse hip boots. The boots were to stiff to make the step so I was left in limbo halfway and fell straight back for the full dunking...bbRRRRrr

Tight Lines and sticky boot bottoms

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Marty
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