#679095 - 04/24/11 01:39 PM
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What a joke! Down on the Cowlitz yesterday this was the scene, guys on seadoo's "drift" fishing, and this Darwin Award nominee who launched his 21' Trophy Dual outboard offshore rig at blue creek!!   Evidently, this guy was running downriver shooting huge softball size rocks 10+ feet in the air as his 2 Merc outboards dug their own channel, he made it to the first corner down before losing power (and his props and likely lower units) and continuing to smash into the high wall below blue creek. Update: IT WAS THE SAME GUY!!!! His jet ski died down the side channel below the launch. So he got a ride back up to the launch. Then decided to go home, get his Trophy and dump in it to go retrieve his jet ski....
Then he float down the skinny side channel to his jet ski. Hooked it up and tried to tow it back up to the launch. Shooting rocks and spinning both props. And he wasn't towed back up stream, he brought his rig down to the property and almost sunk his newer ford diesel trying to pull it out....
End of story, lots of sheriffs, tons of boat damage and a story I won't soon forget.
Edited by GodLovesUgly (04/24/11 05:06 PM)
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#679098 - 04/24/11 01:41 PM
Re: Welcome to the Cowlitz River CLOWNSHOW!
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Holy cow. The guy with the Trophy really should get a trophy for that.
The jet ski idea doesn't sound nearly as bad. Did he catch any?
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#679101 - 04/24/11 01:46 PM
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Didn't see the jetski catch anything. The biggest problem with those guys on seadoo's is they drift without power, so they end up floating into shore anglers feet, or into other boats. You can see he is closing in on the bow of another boat in that picture.
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#679104 - 04/24/11 01:50 PM
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They're bucket listers.
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#679105 - 04/24/11 01:54 PM
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#679114 - 04/24/11 02:08 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out how someone that stupid can have that much money to burn.
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#679116 - 04/24/11 02:11 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out how someone that stupid can have that much money to burn. Dad dosen't know his boat is missing yet?
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#679122 - 04/24/11 02:17 PM
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#679130 - 04/24/11 02:38 PM
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The Jetski thing is oldhat ... even in high school on the Willamette, guys used to troll on Jetskis around Sellwood quite frequently. Typically, when they hooked up, they let the jet ski float and boarded another boat for a net job ... then the boat would run them back to their PWC. Used to see barges trolling as well, but I imagine they were always going way too fast to ever catch anything.
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#679139 - 04/24/11 03:04 PM
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LOL
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#679150 - 04/24/11 04:44 PM
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Uh..... you didn't get the whole story dude. IT WAS THE SAME GUY!!!! His jet ski died down the side channel below the launch. So he got a ride back up to the launch. Then decided to go home, get his Trophy and dump in it to go retrieve his jet ski....
Then he float down the skinny side channel to his jet ski. Hooked it up and tried to tow it back up to the launch. Shooting rocks and spinning both props. And he wasn't towed back up stream, he brought his rig down to the property and almost sunk his newer ford diesel trying to pull it out....
End of story, lots of sheriffs, tons of boat damage and a story I won't soon forget.
Edited by mitch184 (04/24/11 04:46 PM)
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#679152 - 04/24/11 04:48 PM
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Dude, where's my boat?
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Was his name Omar?
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#679154 - 04/24/11 04:53 PM
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Uh..... you didn't get the whole story dude. IT WAS THE SAME GUY!!!! His jet ski died down the side channel below the launch. So he got a ride back up to the launch. Then decided to go home, get his Trophy and dump in it to go retrieve his jet ski....
Then he float down the skinny side channel to his jet ski. Hooked it up and tried to tow it back up to the launch. Shooting rocks and spinning both props. And he wasn't towed back up stream, he brought his rig down to the property and almost sunk his newer ford diesel trying to pull it out....
End of story, lots of sheriffs, tons of boat damage and a story I won't soon forget.  And I thought the local boat ramp was entertaining. That guy needs to take up a different pasttime.....off the water.
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#679157 - 04/24/11 05:03 PM
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Uh..... you didn't get the whole story dude. IT WAS THE SAME GUY!!!! His jet ski died down the side channel below the launch. So he got a ride back up to the launch. Then decided to go home, get his Trophy and dump in it to go retrieve his jet ski....
Then he float down the skinny side channel to his jet ski. Hooked it up and tried to tow it back up to the launch. Shooting rocks and spinning both props. And he wasn't towed back up stream, he brought his rig down to the property and almost sunk his newer ford diesel trying to pull it out....
End of story, lots of sheriffs, tons of boat damage and a story I won't soon forget. I had heard that the jetski guy was the same person who brought out the trophy, but was not sure and couldn't confirm. I was fishing off the shore at blue creek that day and only saw the trophy launching, didn't know what happened after that. I didn't take the pic of the trophy on the beach, I did take the pic of the jetski though.
Edited by GodLovesUgly (04/24/11 05:03 PM)
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#679158 - 04/24/11 05:07 PM
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I can't help but wonder why someone with that kind of money wouldn't just buy a sled????
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#679159 - 04/24/11 05:11 PM
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Ha. Nope. Omar was with me but only took pictures of this debacle. And no that wasn't the trophy in the pic. Same guy, lived down around tacoma it sounded like.
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#679162 - 04/24/11 05:29 PM
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The first pic has a Northwest Jet sportjet in the right hand side of the pic, a big red one.
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