For those without a fully developed beer gasket, one of these devices can be worn inside the wader :

Also works well for enhanced mid-section girth, mainly on a temporary basis.

Well, I took the cat out on its maiden voyage yesterday. I knew when I bought it that the chances of taking a taking a dip had gone up dramaticly...just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

We drove up the Trask to the old girl scout bridge, aka Stones Road to launch. The launch is your standard wood slide about 50 ft long. I've used it many times to launch the drift boat and sometimes its kinda sticky. Put the cat on the ramp and discovered it didn't want to slide very easily. Plus the pontoon was just wide enough that one toon wanted to slip off the side of the ramp.

We had the cat on the steep part of the ramp when we decided to turn it sideways, and with less surface area touching the ramp she took off like Clark Griswald on a sledding slope and we couldn't hold it . Didn't bother tying a rope to it as we had to push it down the ramp to that point . I had to run down the bank and dive in the water to get a hold of it. Luckily, it was only about 8ft from the bank so it wasn't too difficult to pull back to shore....but I was soaked . Luckily had an extra pair of sweats in the rig so I made the drift in semi-comfort.

Anytime you can work Clark Griswold into a thread, it deserves 5 stars.

Glad you got your boat back. Close one.

Golden rule, no snowcap on the river!

Ya, thanks. It was real close. I somehow magaged to roll my ankle badly when I jumped off the rocks...the situation went from bad to worse after I made it back to shore and realized what had happened. Not having an dry socks to wear helped keep the swelling down though

That sucks dude glad you came out of it all right. You didnt go below last chance by any chance?

Totally reminds me of the last time I came up to fish with Twitch and Sykofish. Well,Syko and I decided to fish one of the most cluster$%#@!! rivers in oregon,and we are putting in at this big long boat slide,much steeper than stones,and these hotshots are trying to water hog us so Rusty says F this lets launch and tie up down river I dont want to be anywhere near these fools.


Sure enough we are anchored off to the side and we hear bang!! whoosh!!! Splash!!! there goes the boat and dude running into the water after it. Haha we didnt see them for 3 hours(little embarassed?).
It was some funny assed chit. Different scenario then yours was,these dudes had a frayed rope and not enough of it,were in a hurry to get 1st water,and.......

wait for it.....























































....they were from Ifish

Won't be going below last chance for awhile...need to work a few things out yet...looks like fun though.