have you ever had....

[flytire 0]

...one of those days?

 

 

i havent yet but i have seen a few who have

[Crackaig 0]

On average that happens to me about once every two seasons. Though season before last it happened twice, so I'm hoping, it wont for at least another few years.

 

Cheers,

C.

[Adam Saarinen 0]

Almost a fare few times each year! First time it happened was last summer on the first good river i got to in Lapland, caught 10 grayling in 1.5hours, fell over with the last one but landed it! Had vision hip waders on, right leg full of water & knee swelled up! Was scared cos' trip had just started, but knee was 100% in a couple of days! I see other people fall over now & then! Atleast someone once a year! We all have our turn, lets just hope it's never in big fast water!!!

[Rocco 0]

My worst experience of that kind was on the Una River in Bosnia 30 years ago. I was wading out in fast current just over my knees on a curved reef type structure to reach some rising BIG rainbows against the deeper, far bank. I stepped onto what looked like solid ground but in fact was a near solid mass of small pebbles in a suspension eddy.

 

I was swept downstream standing but with no solid purchase and finally tipped over and went under. I don't know how long my submarine act lasted but I finally washed up on solid ground a good distance from my starting point. I don't know whether I was more scared or cold. My local fishing partners dragged me out and made me run wet waders and all for a long time to get my body temp back up. They are probably still calling that spot the "Dumb American's Landing".

 

I hung onto my rod and my hat and my glasses on a lanyard but my rain coat stuffed in the back of my vest were gone. That is about as close as I have come to 'buying the farm".

 

Rocco

[mikechell 0]

I don't know what you guys are seeing. What I see is ...

"I've cast everything in my box at the f%(%&ng fish !!! I'll get it if it's the last thing I do !!!"

 

And yes ... I've had THAT kind of day.

[Adam Saarinen 0]

The older i get, the more i start to think about a wadding staff! Sometimes when i cross to the small island i wonder what the hell am i doing when i've gone so fare it's easier to keep going! Not a big fan on huge fast water! Lucky the company i work for took out full insurance for free time for us last year, even when outland! I told a work friend my free time activities are sometimes so dangerous it might be me that blows their premiums into the sky!?!

[thmech 0]

Unfortunately, yes. First time was steelhead fishing in january in Michigan. Waded out a bit too far and stepped off a ledge. That water is really cold that time of year!

[FlaFly 0]

I haven't wade-fished for decades, but once while taking water quality samples from a Florida spring on a 90 degree day, I was stepping from rock to rock. The next rock looked like it was only knee deep... in reality it was about 3 feet deep. When I hit that 40 degree water I nearly blacked out!

[Hatchet Jack 0]

Have some of those days?

 

Oh hell yeah.

Especially on those rivers planted with bowling ball for rocks.

Flood belt, wading staff, eye glasses lanyard, zipped up vest pockets are a must.

 

 

Wish we still posessed tails.

[wschmitt3 0]

Many many times....

 

Just yesterday I slipped down the side of a hill while making my way down to the river and then I broke off an ice ledge in the Connecticut River and thankfully it was only over about two inches of water but when I stepped off I lost my footing and almost took a nose dive.

 

One of the last times I went fishing last year I was wading really deep in the Connecticut. The path I took to a large boulder I stood on and fished from was just three inches below the top of my waders. When I stepped off the boulder I stepped off the wrong side and the water was way over my head. I was immediately swept down stream by the current and my waders took on water. Thankfully I was able to regain my footing because I was in real danger of being swept into swift water I never would have been able to swim in with waders and subsequently dragged into a eddy I couldn't possibly have escaped.

[shoebop 0]

Stay the hell away from those big submerged rocks! That's what usually gets me tripped up.

 

[Jaydub 0]

I want to know what flytire is doing following me around with a drone?

[utyer 0]

I have had "that" kind of day on at least 40 different occasions. I've stopped counting, but I do know that I have fallen in during every month of the year. Not in the same year, but at least once in every month. I have ruined cameras, and cell phones, I have lost fly boxes, spools, and other gear, and I have broken only one rod during a fall, So far,I usually come up intact, limping, and battered on occasion, but able to get on with fishing. .

[tidewaterfly 0]

I guess I've been fortunate, but no I've not done that. At least not that badly!

 

I've stumbled & lost my balance numerous times, but never fell down like that. Worst that's happened to me was getting my arm wet. Being tall has some advantage I guess when it comes to not getting soaked.

 

Fell one winter when I was trapping & on a sand bottom. Lost my balance as I tried to cross the current while carrying a heavy pack with traps & fur in it & sat down in the river over my chest waders. That waters cold in February!

[Steeldrifter 0]

I've been pretty lucky. In 25 years of wade fly fishing I have only went down once and that was not all that bad. Stepped into some bottomless mud back in the late 90's that sank me up to my knee and I went down and filled my waders with some 45 degree water. Only time I have ever fell in the water though so that's not all that bad.