This Weeks 'I Almost Died' Story - Saved by the Lord!!

[jorluivil]

So, while I'm out fishing with the boys I decide to take a leap of faith.


It was 8:30am, I was already about 1 mile east of the pack and I knew I had to be home by 11-ish but despite that I selfishly point my bow east and start peddling like a mad man, I get to the spot just after 9am. I immediately drop a 14" lizard fish on one rod and a 10" lizard fish on my other rod, a few minutes later I notice that the rod with the larger lizard fish isn't moving so I reel it up, lizard fish is dead so I hook a spanish and send it back down. Its now about 9:50am, I'm talking to myself, "I'll reel-em up at 10am and haul ass back to the launch, be there by 11am, load up and be home around 1130-ish". A few seconds go by and the line with the lizard fish is bendo!! ZZZZZZzzzzzzz, THUMP! THUMP! ZZZZZZZZ!!! Line is screaming out of the reel and as the fish is running I immediately start reeling up my other line. Other line is up, I pull the rod that is hooked out of the orca and I start fighting the fish, fish has some head shakes and is pulling line from my reel.....fish feels BIG!!! After about a minute or two my line goes slack.....FUCK, I LOST IT!!! I start to reel like a mad man and within a few seconds my rod goes full bendo again! ZZZZZZZZ!!! THUMP!! TRUMP!! TRUMP!!! Not more than 10 seconds go by and the fish pops off. DOUBLE FUCK!!!!

I have no choice but to reel my lines up and start heading in and start the 4 mile trek back to the launch, as soon as my lines are up I start pedaling like a mad man. I call my wife to tell her I might be late but I'll be there, she's not happy. I'm pedaling non-stop for an hour, I'm a little under a mile away from the launch and SNAP GOES MY MIRAGE DRIVE!!! FUCK!!!! I pull it out of the drive and I see that one of the chains busted right where the chain is crimped to the cable. Using my hands I move the peddles back and forth and notice that it still works with on cable so I pop it back in and start pedaling, I'm holding a steady speed and its all good until suddenly POP!!! FUUUUUCK!!! My idler cable busted, now I'm screwed. Have you ever had to paddle a PA14 more than 10 feet? I call my wife and in the 20 seconds that we were on the phone she called every bad word that exist in the spanish language.

I finally get to the launch, get to my truck, drive home, sh*t, shower and shave and jump on my bike. I get to the church services about 10-15 minutes before the service were over. Fortunately, because we were in a church my wife had to maintain her composure and be nice during the remainder of the services and not kill me.