boat pulling to the left

[redfury]

So, I'm out fishing with my 14 ft tinny with a 25hp motor a couple of summers ago-out on the lake with another friend in his own boat. We were working the shallows throwing plugs and bobbers out.

Not much was happening, so I was moving around a lot, trying to find a decent piece of structure to work off of. As I'm tooling over to the next spot on the shorline, the boat starts to jerk to the left for some strange reason. I'm just puttering along...and the bow would pull to the left. Can't seem to figure it out, so I keep going. The motor seemed to be operating properly and I can't seem to figure out for the life of me why I'm having this problem.

Well, I get to where I want to go. I shut down the motor and work my way to the front to drop the anchor......:redface:

Yup, forgot to pull it up before I took off. I pulled up a hedge worth of milfoil off that anchor...apparently the jerking was when it would get hung up enough on the vegetation to jerk the bow. Fortunately the bottom was all sand and silt/mud so I never had a chance to get hung up on a rock formation...that could have been bad.

Just goes to show that you can overlook something easily when you start to get caught up in the moment. Clear heads prevail, but sometimes clear heads can get easily clouded, even if for but a brief, inopportune moment.

 

[12vMan]

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That is funny, but man what a nightmare that could have been if it had gotten hung up Someone was looking over you that day
Luckily you were only in putting around with a 25hp!

 

[dlindeblad]

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I did the same with my bait bucket. Started up the engine and cruised to a better spot. Dropped anchor and reached for some minnows and pulled up only the handle of the bucket.

 

[gypsysoul]

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I did it with the days catch one time on a stringer, did not get skunked but went home empty handed!

 

[just_crsn]

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Funny,I picked up an anchor one day( not with my hands..lol). My nephew and I were cruising(30mph) along a local river heading to a fishing hole. We were chatting and all of a sudden the frontend of my 16ft flat bottom nose dives, motor kicks up along with the stern of the boat. My passenager almost flies out the front of the boat along with me. He thought we hit a dead head but I told him it wasnt ,had to be something else. I tip up the 25 to see a rope wrapped around the prop. I get out my knife and cut us free. After heading to shore to cut the rest of the tightly wound rope of the prop,we head back out to the rest of the rope still floating . I wanted to know what it was attached to.......well it was an anchor on the end of that rope. Must have fallen off a large pleasure craft. We finally managed to free it from the bottom and throw it on sure. A very good reason to always wear your PFDs when on the water.....we weren't that day......i insist on it now.