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One day, some fellows were headed down the river to set some lines, and saw a man standing on a cut-bank, holding a rope. The man watched them go by, but he didn't wave or try to flag them down. He just watched them all the way out of sight. Later, coming back by, they saw the same man, in the same spot, sitting on the bank, holding the rope. He watched them go by again. Going out to run the lines, they saw him, still there, still holding the line and watching. Now, by this time, curiosity must have been an overpowering thing, but they did not bother the man, it was his business, after all: It's a free country. I sure wish I had been there to hear the theories they came up with. Coming back in with fish, though, they decided they couldn't stand it. They pulled up and asked the man why he was standing on a bank, holding a rope. The man considered, then mournfully explained that he had been tying a line to a stick on the bank, engine-off, when he felt the boat surge. Knowing this could only be from the wake of a tug he had not heard, he grabbed his anchor line and scrambled straight up the bank! Sure enough, the boat was swamped, flipped and smacked against the bank a few times by the big waves, then sank into the flow. He fought the river, dug in his heals and held on for dear life (or dear boat, which might have been almost as important to him). He managed to hold the line, and, after the boat sank into the mud, found that his weight would hold the boat against the flow, but that he could not bring it any closer, or drag it along the bank. Looking around, he found he was on an empty cut-bank on a mud bar. No trees. Not even any logs or large debris. Just mud and sand, and no place to tie off. "Boys, at the other end of this line is a $5000.00 Terry Bass boat." Once the guys quit laughing, they volunteered to go to a bar they knew, and hire some big men to pull the boat out. As I recall, they found 4 who were willing to help for $5.00 each. Anyway, they all pulled the boat out and boat-owner was a happy man. |
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